Formula One team Ferrari have announced a multi-year partnership with Virtual Gaming Worlds (VGW), a global technology company that specialises in the creation of cutting-edge online social games. The partnership...
British Formula One team Williams Racing have roped in Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts as an Official Team Partner ahead of the 2023 Formula One season. The global luxury hospitality firm's...
Formula One team Alfa Romeo have inked a new partnership agreement with Diagnostix, a leading medtech firm. The agreement will see Diagnostix join as an Official Team Partner of the...
Formula One team Scuderia Ferrari have roped in ZCG as an Official Team Partner ahead of the 2023 Formula One season. ZCG is an industry leader comprising private markets, asset...
Leading online CFD & FX broker, XMTrading has been announced as the Official FX Trading Partner of Italian Formula One team Scuderia AlphaTauri. The partnership will see the team help XMTrading gain global visibility and brand awareness. Additionally the XMTrading branding will also be present on various prime locations of the AlphaTauri race car and driver race suits. Franz Tost, Team Principal of Scuderia AlphaTauri, commented, "I am pleased to welcome XMTrading to Scuderia AlphaTauri as an official partner ahead of the 2023 Formula 1 season. Our values align well with theirs, as we both have a shared vision of continuous innovation in the pursuit of excellence, and I’m looking forward to working with them.”
The 2023 Formula One season is almost upon us. Before the action gets underway, here are some of my predictions for the upcoming season. Verstappen to become three-time World Champion...
Susie Wolff has been announced as the Managing Director of the F1 Academy. Wolff joins ahead of the inaugural season of the all-female series, which aims to grow, develop and...
French motor-racer Lola Lovinfosse has been announced as Campos Racing's second driver for the inaugural season of the F1 Academy. Lovinfosse will join Nerea Martí and another yet-to-be-announced driver to...
IMG and Formula One have announced a new in-ship and in-flight rights agreement, which will see IMG broadcast F1 on its Sport 24 and Sport 24 Extra channels for the...
Swiss Formula One team Alfa Romeo have roped in premium refinish paint brand R-M, with the latter joining as the exclusive technical paint supplier of the team. Alfa Romeo will...
Formula One has signed a new 15-year partnership with Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. The partnership aims to identify and develop upcoming motor sport talents. The partnership will see the...
mCloud, a provider of cloud technology solutions which optimise the performance, reliability and sustainability of energy-intensive assets, has signed a new partnership agreement with Formula One team Mercedes, joining on...
The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya will have a new configuration of its layout for the 2023 Spanish Grand Prix. The circuit will not have the chicane in the last two corners...
Swiss Formula One team Alfa Romeo have extended their partnership with automotive supplier Marelli. The partnership which started in the 2019 season will continue on for the 2023 season. The partnership extension will see the Marelli brand continuing to provide the team with their products and the Marelli logo present on the Alfa Romeo race car, on the top of the chassis. Alessandro Alunni Bravi, Team Representative of Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake, commented, "We are delighted to continue our partnership with Marelli, a dedicated technology partner of our team for several years. With a long-standing motorsport heritage, experience in racing and an undeniable passion for competition, Marelli’s values are akin to our own. We have been using their products, a guarantee of excellence, for a number of years now, and they are perfectly integrated within our cars. We are looking forward to working with them this season.”
For almost the entirety of the turbo-hybrid era, it was only one team who dominated the sport. Yes, Ferrari tried a few times with Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull managed to take one title away, but it is clear and by a long distance that Mercedes were the top team between 2014 and 2021. Eight consecutive World Constructors’ Championships and seven consecutive World Drivers’ titles meant Mercedes were the benchmark team of the turbo-hybrid era. But with new regulations kicking in from the 2022 season, and if the previous season was a precursor for things to come, Mercedes will well and truly have a proper title fight on their hands, with not just one but multiple teams vying for the championships. Red Bull already proved their worth in the 2021 season, and defending champions Max Verstappen set the fastest time in pre-season testing, which would definitely hold the Austrian team in good stead. Along with Red Bull, another team that will be fighting for not only podiums but wins should be the Scuderia. After being horribly off the pace in 2020, Ferrari made a commendable comeback in 2021 to regularly be in the hunt for podiums and even took two poles in 2021 through Charles Leclerc. They have been promising in the winter and pre-season testing, and with the Italian team having stopped their development work on the 2021 car mid-way through last season to focus on the new regulations, only a daft man would write off Ferrari. The Scuderia belong right at the top of the grid, and after going two seasons without a win (Sebastian Vettel’s Singapore Grand Prix win in 2019 is their last win till date), the Maranello-based team are definitely favourites for not only podiums but wins. The final team of the three in the mix for victory are Mercedes. Eight back-to-back championships don’t just happen without a reason. For the last eight years, the Silver Arrows have been performing on a level different to the rest of the grid. Led by Lewis Hamilton, even though it’s a new season with new regulations, Mercedes remain hot favourites to start the season with a win. Now, pre-season testing in Bahrain wasn’t ideal for the team and neither of their drivers was pleased with the results. While Hamilton stated that the team would not fight for wins at the moment, George Russell said that there was work to be done. Now, if any other team on the grid had a similar view going into the opening race with the performance Mercedes had during the pre-season tests, you would think it’s true. But this is Mercedes, and we are used to it by now. Hamilton and the Brackley-based team have been downplaying their stance before the season-opener and speaking highly about the rest of the teams for almost five seasons now. It almost feels inevitable that Mercedes will downplay their speed and then go on to blow everyone away. Now, with the new regulations and given the advancements of Red Bull and Ferrari, the German team may actually be caught out, but you’d still be making a big call if you didn’t put Mercedes down as one of the favourites for not only the season-opener but the entire season.
Formula One has announced a new multi-year partnership with South Korean OTT service Coupang Play. The partnership will see Coupang Play live-stream the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship to...
Formula One has extended its partnership with Fuji Television Network, INC, which will see the CS broadcasting service Fuji Television NEXT Live Premium continue broadcasting the F1 events till 2025....
Mahindra Racing and their customer team ABT CUPRA have withdrawn their cars from the upcoming Cape Town E-Prix following safety concerns. Mahindra Racing's Lucas di Grassi suffered a broken rear...
Formula One team Red Bull Racing's power unit-manufacturing division Red Bull Powertrains (RBPT), which was created in 2021 to develop power units for Red Bull and AlphaTauri, has announced a...
Swiss Formula One team Alfa Romeo have announced a new partnership with Corinthian Re, a speciality collateralised reinsurance company that is a subsidiary of The Corinthian Group. The partnership will...
Aston Martin's Stoffel Vandoorne and Felipe Drugovich will stand-in as McLaren's Reserve Drivers as well should the situation arise, following an announcement by both the British Formula One teams. Aston Martin stated that they have come to an agreement with McLaren which will see Vandoorne and Drugovich step-in for the Woking-based team for the first 15 races of the 2023 Formula One season should the situation arise. Stoffel Vandoorne is a previous Formula One driver for McLaren and joined Aston Martin in November 2022 with reigning Formula One champion Felipe Drugovich also having joined the team as a Reserve Driver and also the team's development programme. Aside from Vandoorne and Drugovich, McLaren had earlier roped in Mercedes' Reserve Driver Mick Schumacher also in a similar role should the situation arise. INDY Car champion Alex Palou is McLaren’s Official Reserve Driver.
Mercedes have announced a seven-member driver line-up for their Junior Programme for 2023. Amongst the seven are Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Alex Powell, Yuanpu Cui, Luna Fluxá, Kenzo Craige, Paul Aron and Frederik Vesti. While Antonelli, Aron, Powell and Vesti will continue with the team, the team has signed Cui, Fluxá and Craige. Fluxá has competed in the WSK and IAME Euro Series and also won the IAME Euro Series in X30 Mini in 2021. Jamaican Powell, who joined the Mercedes Junior Programme in 2019 finished runners-up in the FIA Karting European Championship last season while Cui has raced in the Andrea Margutti Trophy, WSK Champions Cup and WSK Super Master Series. Craige took part in the Rotax Max Grand Finals and the British Karting Championship in 2021 and has already won the Ultimate Karting Championship Series, British Kartmasters (GP Plate), British Karting Championship (O Plate), and finished as the British Karting Championship Vice-Champion.
Formula One has announced a multi-year partnership with Qatar Airways, which will see the latter join as the Global Airline Partner of Formula One. The partnership was announced at the...
The schedule of the inaugural season of the F1 Academy has been revealed. The season will have seven rounds with a total of 21 races, with the season getting underway...
Italian Formula One team Scuderia Ferrari and global private jet company VistaJet have announced a renewal of their long-standing partnership. The renewal of the partnership will see VistaJet continue on...
Alfa Romeo have announced a new partnership with Kick Out Plastic, a global initiative seeking to promote positive changes in behaviour and choices in an attempt to improve the planet’s...
Aston Martin have announced that their Reserve Driver Felipe Drugovich will replace Lance Stroll during the pre-season test in Bahrain, after it was announced that the Canadian would miss the...
Formula One has announced a multi-year partnership with streaming services DAZN. The partnership will see DAZN broadcast Formula One in Japan till 2025. The partnership will kick off with the upcoming 2023 season where DAZN will broadcast the entire 23 race calendar including the practice sessions and qualifying sessions. DAZN will also broadcast the pre-season testing in Bahrain and also broadcast the Formula 2 and Formula 3 championships in the region where Japanese driver Ayumu Iwasa will take part in F2. Ian Holmes, Director of Media Rights and Content Creation at Formula One, commented, "Japan is a historic market for Formula 1 with some of the most passionate fans in the world, and we are delighted to announce this partnership with DAZN for them to continue to broadcast Formula 1 for the next three years. As Formula 1 continues to grow and attract new fans in Asia and around the world, it is vital that the broadcasting of our events is of the highest standard. Over the next three seasons, we look forward to working with DAZN to ensure our fans continue to enjoy the spectacle and entertainment of Formula 1.”
American Formula One team Haas have announced a new partnership with California-based premium lifestyle performance apparel brand, TravisMathew. TravisMathew will join as the team's Official Travel Kit and Luggage Supplier. The partnership will see TravisMathew provide the American team with with travel necessities including: Lifestyle apparel, inclusive of items from TravisMathew’s Cloud Collection and more TravisMathew footwear including The Daily Shoe and The Phenom TravisMathew-branded luggage and backpacks The partnership will kick off at the pre-season testing in Bahrain, where the California brand will provide the team with apparel and luggage.
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) held their first Formula One Commission meeting of 2023 ahead of the 2023 Formula One World Championship season and a host of new changes have been announced. Amongst the new changes are a new wet-weather tyre compound, circuit changes and technical and financial matters. The Commission meeting was chaired by Formula One President and CEO Stefano Domenicali and FIA Single-Seater Director Nikolas Tombazi. The changes discussed during the first Commission meeting of 2023 were :- Wet tyres and wet weather - FIA have announced that Pirelli will launch a wet-weather tyre which will not require the use of tyre blankets. The tyre will be available from the race in Imola. The Commission also discussed the wet weather aero package and the work on it will continue and will allow teams to be able to work on the package outside their Aerodynamic Testing Restriction (ATR) limits and outside the cost cap. The new aero kit testing will take place in Q2 or Q3 of 2023. Radio Messages - The Commission stated that they have approved the proposal to relax the regulation of radio messages to and from the drivers during the races.
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