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There are fears at Ferrari that Laurent Mekies is now instigating an exodus of staff to the similarly Italian-based Alpha Tauri team.

Dr Helmut Marko admits Red Bull's relationship with engine supplier Honda will change yet again in 2024.

Esteban Ocon may be worried Alpine's new car for 2024 is "a little slow".

Toto Wolff will remain in charge of the Mercedes team he co-owns until at least the end of 2026.

The influence of the driver in Formula 1 is down to a paltry 10 percent.

Carlos Sainz's famous father says the Ferrari driver's current negotiations with the Maranello team are set to continue.

Lewis Hamilton's days at the very top of Formula 1 are "over", according to former grand prix driver Eddie Irvine.

Franz Tost is poised to remain connected to Formula 1 as a consultant to Red Bull's two teams.

Former F1 driver Ralf Schumacher is offering his support to giant nationwide anti-government protests led by German farmers.

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Mercedes’ plans to expand its Formula 1 factory in Brackley were finally approved by the local council.

Max Verstappen

Fernando Alonso

The unexpected departure of Gunther Steiner from Haas F1 Team caught everyone by surprise and coming immediately after it was revealed Simone Resta had also left the American team, vaccating the position of Technical Director, indicates quite a lot was going on under the surface in Gene Haas’ team.

Lewis Hamilton

Mike Krack is now the third longest serving Formula 1 Team Principal! Now, that’s a sentence that makes you go back and read again, but you read it right, the Aston Martin man has now moved into that position following the sensational departure of Gunther Steiner from the role he fulfilled at Haas F1 Team since its creation.

In a surprise move, the highly rated Simone Resta has decided to leave his position as Technical Director of Haas, just one monthe before the launch of this year’s VF-24. Resta had been leading the technical department the American team put together in Maranello, with 80 other engineers that moved from Ferrari, and a few dozen others that had previously been with other teams, at the start of 2021 but has now opted to leave at the end of what was a very disappointing season for Haas.

Helmut Marko will remain with Red Bull until the end of 2026, after signing a new two-years deal with the company’s new managament. The veteran Austrian’s current contract, still signed with his old friend Dietrich Mateschitz, expires at the end of this year and with the billionaire gone there were indications Marko wouldn’t have his deal renewed by Oliver Mintzlaff, the man who’s now in charge of running the company’s sporting programs.

With just seven weeks to go before the start of the 2024 Formula 1 World Championship, there’s yet to be a consensus on the format that will be used in the six sprint events that will be part of this year’s season, with the promoters of those Grand Prix unable to set their own schedules and, of course, let the fans know the sequence of sessions before they make their final decision about buying tickets and for what days.

Charles Leclerc

Haas F1 Team has announced that Guenther Steiner has left the team, after having been Team Principal since the team's inception. In his place Ayao Komatsu has been appointed new team principal, being promoted from his role as Director of Engineering.

The announcement Mercedes will continue to supply Power Units to Williams until the end of 2030 has shut the door for other manufacturers to try and get costumers for their own products from the start of 2026. With McLaren already committed to keep working with the German manufacturer until the end of the next cycle of technical regulations, only Haas has yet to confirm which Power Units it will be using after the end of 2025, but given the very close links the American team has with Ferrari – to the extent it has placed its own design group in a building adjacent to the Scuderia’s factory! – there’s little doubt this relationship will carry on beyond the end of the current deal.

The 21 million Euros investment the Italian government, the Lombardia region and the ACI are making on the modernization of the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza is mainly aimed at bringing the infrastructure up to the most recent Formula 1 standards, especially in the topic of providing a better experience for the paying fans, but will also focus on improving the racing conditions, as the changes made to the cars in the last change of regulations made this high-speed track less of a challenge than it was before.

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has claimed he knows “who attacks me”, in a recent interview with German publication Motorsport-Magazin, explaining that, “the paddock is a very small habitat, everybody knows everybody," he added. "You know, whoever leaked or made up something about me, I know. And what do I do? I smile at them. I know who is behind it and then I smile at them. I only ask for sincerity. I am not interested in the share price or ticket sales. We just need honesty. That is my mission."