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During a glittering Formula 1 career that for many years made him the most experienced driver ever, Rubens Barrichello enjoyed a special affinity for Monza.Three of his 11 victories came in the Italian Grand Prix, making it statistically his most successful circuit. Of course, it helped that the Brazilian's triumphs in 2002 and 2004 came while adorning the scarlet overalls of Ferrari.Twenty years ...

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Toyota says an official Formula 1 return – either with an engine or its own team – is not on its radar, despite agreeing a tie-up with Haas.The Japanese manufacturer announced on Friday that it has agreed to a long-term technical partnership with Haas, which will include the two organisations working together on a test programme, aerodynamic development and the manufacturing of parts.This is ...

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Red Bull has revealed how Formula 1's financial realities played their part in it losing key staff members like Jonathan Wheatley and Will Courtenay this year.The Milton Keynes-based squad is undergoing a period of organisational restructuring, with a number of its senior figures having accepted jobs elsewhere and set to move on.Its chief technical officer Adrian Newey is departing for Aston ...

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The Haas Formula 1 team has announced a technical partnership with Toyota Gazoo Racing, the motorsport division of the Japanese manufacturer.The deal will see Toyota, which is to become Haas’s ‘Official Technical Partner’, join the American-owned operation in a relationship where they will share knowledge and resources.Toyota Gazoo Racing will provide design, technical and manufacturing ...

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Michael Andretti's decision to step down from running his race team on a day-to-day basis will have no immediate bearing on its bid to join the Formula 1 grid.Motorsport.com has learned that Andretti's Silverstone factory continues to recruit staff in a bid to have a full 2026 chassis ready before the New Year.Former F1 and IndyCar driver Andretti has built one of the most successful motorsport ...

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Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen has conceded Red Bull couldn't have been expected to keep all of its key members together amid a string of high-profile departures in recent weeks.Off the back of designer Adrian Newey announcing his exit in May - and since signing for Aston Martin - Red Bull will also see sporting director Jonathan Wheatley leave for Sauber/Audi and head of strategy Will ...

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In a parallel universe, Pierre Gasly is a professional football player often daydreaming about how far he could have gone in racing, if he had only continued his career in karting. In this universe, however, the French F1 driver every so often wonders if he could be playing for his favourite club, Paris Saint-Germain, had he made a different decision in his teenage years.If you follow Pierre Gasly ...

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One of the biggest unknowns about the 2024 Formula 1 season is how Red Bull went from crushing the opposition up to the Chinese GP to being on the backfoot since Miami.Max Verstappen’s victory in Shanghai, his fourth out of five races at the start of this season, came with nearly identical 13-second margins at the front in that weekend’s sprint and main grand prix. The world champion had been ...

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The FIA still plans to go ahead with its annual Prize Gala in Rwanda in December, despite the World Health Organization (WHO) advising against travel to the country because of a Marburg virus outbreak.Motor racing’s governing body is hosting its annual celebratory extravaganza in Kigali on 13 December to hand out this year’s FIA awards as well as celebrate its own 120th anniversary.The event ...

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Mercedes has admitted that it did not get it right in realising the pressures that Andrea Kimi Antonelli would face with his first FP1 outing on home ground at Monza.The German manufacturer elected to hand Antonelli his first official practice run in its car at the Italian Grand Prix, on the same weekend that he was going to be announced as a 2025 driver.But despite showing some impressive speed ...

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Sauber last scored Formula 1 championship points exactly a year and a day ago when, as Alfa Romeo, it bagged a double top-10 finish at the Qatar Grand Prix.Since then, its reversion to the Sauber brand name has not been particularly conducive to success; the team is the only remaining outfit to remain point-less this season. Pitstop delays in the early season and a lack of performance gains with ...

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Incoming Haas Formula 1 driver Ollie Bearman has already made important impressions on the American squad concerning his "maturity" and "ability to understand the bigger picture".This is the view of team principal Ayao Komatsu, who has signed Bearman to race alongside Esteban Ocon in an all-new 2025 Haas driver line-up.Ferrari junior Bearman, who has been impressing Haas since he made a rookie ...

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Following several successful cameos in recent months, Formula 1 is set to reverse a trend by welcoming an influx of rookie drivers in 2025.For the first time in history, the 2024 Formula 1 grid featured an unchanged driver line-up compared to the one that saw out the previous season, with zero newcomers lining up in Bahrain. The contrast with 2025 could hardly be much bigger, with four expected ...

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Ex-Alpine team boss Otmar Szafnauer has accused the team's Renault ownership of focusing on the longevity of their own careers rather than success in Formula 1.Speaking on ex-F1 broadcaster Jake Humphrey's High Performance Podcast, Szafnauer opened up on his year-and-a-half as team principal at the Alpine team, explaining his sacking during the 2023 Belgian GP weekend and its fumbling of Oscar ...

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United States Grand Prix organisers have made a series of revisions to the Austin circuit to try to help reduce track limits problems, Motorsport.com has learned.With the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) venue being resurfaced for this year, the opportunity was there to address issues that cropped up at last year’s race with drivers abusing the white lines at the edge of the circuit.In fact, the ...

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Renault's decision to end its Formula 1 works engine project has been one of the biggest stories of the 2024 season.The move, only made official last week, has triggered huge controversy within the factory walls at Viry-Chatillon, where the French manufacturer's F1 power units have been made since the 1970s.But while abandoning its own engine in favour of a customer Mercedes deal for the Alpine F1 ...

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Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has downplayed the latest developments within the Milton Keynes-based squad, with key staff having been poached by rival teams.In the last few months, chief technical officer Adrian Newey, sporting director Jonathan Wheatley and head of race strategy Will Courtenay have been signed by Aston Martin, Sauber/Audi and McLaren as managing technical partner, team principal ...

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The Jordan-Ford EJ13 has a credible case to be one of the worst Formula 1 cars ever to win a Grand Prix. It would be a colossal understatement to suggest that its shock victory courtesy of Giancarlo Fisichella at the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix came against the run of play during a season in which it proved slower than all bar Minardi by a metric of supertimes.Taking the chaotic, prematurely ...

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Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko says the Austrian brand will mainly look at its junior drivers for the future, rather than established Formula 1 stars.Red Bull is searching for the best driver to partner Max Verstappen in the future, due to incumbent Sergio Perez – who is under contract for next year – having struggled to match his team-mate lately.Perez scored only 41 points in the latest 12 ...

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The FIA has lost two of its senior figures, with its director of communications Luke Skipper and secretary general of mobility Jacob Bangsgaard resigning.Both are said to have left the organisation to pursue other interests, but their departures come at a time when FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s style of leadership has again been in the spotlight.Ben Sulayem triggered controversy ahead of ...

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Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko is worried that McLaren’s Formula 1 advantage has turned into “a whole new world” lately, with reigning world champion Max Verstappen equally astonished.Lando Norris was unrivalled in the recent Singapore Grand Prix, outqualifying Verstappen by two tenths for pole position before winning the race with a 21-second margin on the three-time champion – the gap ...

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Pierre Gasly is used to doing his talking on the track. But it seems as though the 28-year-old Alpine ace is trying to send a message about his extra-curricular activities, too.Over the past few years, the Frenchman has made surprise appearances at several fashion shows, spending his limited downtime rubbing shoulders with designers in Europe’s fashion capitals. Most recently, Gasly stepped out ...

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Fernando Alonso is much more likely to return to the Dakar Rally than the Indy 500 in the future, but insisted his "only priority" is to grab a third Formula 1 world championship with Aston Martin.Alonso signed a new contract earlier this year that keeps him at Aston Martin's F1 team until at least the 2026 season, including an ambassadorial deal that is set to keep him tied to the manufacturer ...

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Formula 1 teams readily know that if they are not bringing constant upgrades to their cars then that is a surefire way to drift down the order.But one of the quirks of the 2024 season is that McLaren's march to the front of the grid, and emergence of the MCL38 as arguably F1's quickest car over recent months, has come from it taking a bit of a different approach compared to its competitors.While ...

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Renault's plan to scrap its Formula 1 engine department has been met with disdain by some of the workforce at the Viry-Chatillon factory located just outside of Paris.The CSE, Social and Economic Committee of the Alpine engine subsidiary, had campaigned hard in an attempt to persuade Renault CEO Luca de Meo not to throw in the towel.However, their attempts ultimately failed and Alpine looks set to ...

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