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JANUARY 22, 2025

Red Bull's life without Newey

Red Bull is less than four weeks away from putting on track its first car that hasn’t been designed under Adrian Newey’s leadership since 2007 and that has obviously raised some doubts about the competitiveness of the RB21. Of course this year’s car will be very much an evolution of the championship-winning car that Newey still designed, but given the genial British engineer effectively stopped working on any Formula 1-related projects for the team at the start of last April, it has been under Pierre Waché’s leadership the new car was designed.

Franck Sanchez joins Ferrari

Ferrari continues to strengthen its technical department, as Frédéric Vasseur, now in his third season in Maranello, keeps pushing to put in place what he considers the ideal structure for the Italian team. Last week it was revealed experienced aerodynamicist Franck Sanchez will join the Scuderia, as Chief Aerodynamicist, the Frenchman taking over the responsibility for the work done in the wind tunnel. For now, the experienced engineer is on gardening leave from Sauber, the team he has worked for in the last three and a half years, there too being hired by Vasseur, so it is clear the Ferrari Team Principal has a lot of faith on his countryman’s competence.

Komatsu announces big changes at Haas

Haas Team Principal Ayao Komatsu has announced big changes in his team, particularly in the structure of the race team. As it was anticipated, Esteban Ocon will be working closely with Laura Mueller, who will become Formula 1’s first female Race Engineer, but there are other changes in the team, as veteran Francesco Nenci returns to Formula 1 after ten years in other categories of motor racing.

Haas confirms Magnussen's F1 roles for 2025

The Formula 1 team Haas has confirmed reports that Kevin Magnussen will remain involved in 2025.

Haas confirms Magnussen's F1 roles for 2025

The Formula 1 team Haas has confirmed reports that Kevin Magnussen will remain involved in 2025.

JANUARY 21, 2025

All eyes on Hamilton's first Ferrari test

Hotel rooms are fully booked in the region surrounding Ferrari's Maranello HQ, as Lewis Hamilton gets his red-coloured Formula 1 career underway.

Haas will race tweaked 2024 car this season

Many Formula 1 teams will effectively race 2024-specification cars this season, according to Haas' technical boss.

Magnussen didn't chase F1 contract for 2025

Kevin Magnussen insists he is perfectly happy to once again farewell his Formula 1 career.

JANUARY 20, 2025

Certainly not any race wins in 2024, Alonso admits

Fernando Alonso has played down the prospect of a big step forward for Aston Martin in 2025.

Zhou, focused on F1 return, linked with Red Bull

Guanyu Zhou is determined that losing his race seat at Sauber does not mean the end of his Formula 1 career.

Albon reputation could take a hit in 2025 says Juncadella

Alex Albon's latest reputation as one of Formula 1's top drivers could take a hit in 2025.

Sauber's Bravi could join Hamilton at MotoGP team

Alessandro Alluni Bravi, the departing 'team representative' at Audi-owned Sauber, is linked with a switch to Formula 1's two-wheeled equivalent.

Hadjar admits F1 debut making him scared

Isack Hadjar admits the prospect of making his Formula 1 debut in just over 50 days has left him feeling "scared".

JANUARY 17, 2025

Aston Martin denies $1 billion Verstappen rumours

Aston Martin has denied wild reports that owner Lawrence Stroll is prepared to spend an eye-watering $1 billion to woo Max Verstappen to the team.

CEO confirms Hamilton's Ferrari debut next week

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna has confirmed that Lewis Hamilton will make his highly anticipated official debuts at Maranello and Fiorano "next week".

Audi now in full control of Sauber

Audi is now officially in full control of the Swiss Formula 1 team Sauber.

Signing de Vries was Marko's biggest mistake in F1

Dr Helmut Marko admits signing up Nyck de Vries was his "biggest mistake" in charge of Red Bull's Formula 1 driver program.

Zandvoort couldn't face more Dutch GP risk

Dutch GP boss Jan Lammers admits 2026 will be the last Formula 1 race at Zandvoort purely for financial reasons.

JANUARY 16, 2025

Higher Cadillac payment still not enough says Wolff

Toto Wolff has hit out at the size of the new team fee payable by Cadillac F1 ahead of its 2026 Formula 1 debut.

Father hints at Formula E move for Sergio Perez

The Perez family is not done with Formula 1, and axed Red Bull driver Sergio Perez might not be done with international motorsport.

Verstappen takes delivery of huge super-yacht

Max Verstappen is the proud owner of a brand new super-yacht.

Red Bull was interested in Colapinto

One of Franco Colapinto's managers has admitted the impressive Argentine had talks with Red Bull.

Ferrari, Mercedes could quickly focus on 2026

Frederic Vasseur admits Ferrari could "quickly" switch its focus to the 2026 season in the opening stanza of 2025.

Jurgen Klopp keen to learn from Verstappen

Iconic football manager Jurgen Klopp admits he is keen to learn from quadruple world champion Max Verstappen.