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Aug 23, 2024, 03:30 AM ET Australian driver Jack Doohan will race for Alpine next season after being promoted from reserve driver, the Renault-owned Formula One team said on Friday. Doohan, son of MotoGP great Mick, replaces French driver Esteban Ocon, who is set to leave Alpine when his contract expires at the end of the 2024 season. “Jack will…

Aug 22, 2024, 04:42 PM ET Summer break is over. After a run of 14 races over 22 weeks in four different continents, Formula One returns from its monthlong hiatus with the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort, Netherlands. Dutchman Max Verstappen looks to win his home race for the fourth year in a row. Verstappen is the only winner of…

In the round-up: Charles Leclerc thinks Ferrari may struggle for performance at Zandvoort in dry conditions. In brief Ferrari “could struggle” at Zandvoort The Ferrari driver does not expect his team to be notably stronger this weekend in Zandvoort than they were before the summer break. “I think we can have a similar weekend to the last two ones,” Leclerc…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The GEN3 Formula E car is an amazing piece of machinery, sporting 350 kW (470 bhp) of power and a top speed of 320 km/h (200 mph), while weighing in at just 840 kg (1851 lb), earning its description as “the fastest, lightest, most…

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Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorAug 22, 2024, 09:17 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 On the eve of his 200th Formula One race, Max Verstappen has ruled out competing in 200 more, saying he is already more than halfway through his career. The 26-year-old has previously made clear he does not expect to race…

Credit where it’s due to everyone who’s been involved in the ongoing saga of whether fast-charging pitstops eventually happen in Formula E. They aren’t letting it go. Until the technology, known in the sporting regulations and colloquially as ‘attack charge’, has reached a specific level of maturity and dependability and is proven, it will not be used in races. Development…

A Mercedes will be offered at auction this year which could smash the record for most expensive Formula 1 car ever. The 1955 W196R in rare ‘Streamliner’ configuration will be sold this autumn. The car is one of several being sold by RM Sotheby’s for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway “as part of an ongoing strategy to support the museum’s long-term…

Lewis Hamilton celebrating his British GP win earlier this year with Peter Bonnington. Vince Mignott/MB Media/Getty Images Lewis Hamilton‘s race engineer Peter Bonnington will not join the seven-time world champion at Ferrari next year, having committed his future to Mercedes. Bonnington, known to most race fans as “Bono” from Hamilton’s radio messages, has worked with the Brit since he joined…  read…

The FIA is eager to reverse Formula 1’s long-running trend towards heavier cars. It intends to begin doing so in 2026 – but not before they hit a new high next year. The minimum weight limit for the 2025 season will be set at a record high: The milestone 800 kilogram mark will finally be reached. The F1 rules have…

Oliver Bearman revealed his panic-stricken reaction when Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur told him he would substitute for Carlos Sainz Jnr at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix earlier this year. The Formula 2 driver made his Formula 1 debut when he was called up by Ferrari after Sainz went down with appendicitis in Jeddah. Bearman received the news after the…

Building anything from scratch in international motorsport, in the most over-used phrase of the modern age, is something of ‘a journey’.  It takes a dream, then willpower, a dash of luck but most of all skill, aptitude and building a team of people that can deliver a winning unit. It took Jaguar a while to do it, yet done it,…

Formula 1 was in competitive shape when it went into its summer break, with four different drivers tasting victory in the last five rounds. Max Verstappen’s healthy lead in the drivers’ championship looks unlikely to be overturned, but that doesn’t mean he can expect to have things his way at his home round. Here are the talking points for this…

“I want a team to sign me because I’m their best option to get results, not because I’m the disabled guy.” August 19 2018 will always be the date that Robert Wickens remembers as the one that changed his life. A promising junior category career including a Formula Renault 3.5 title led to a race-winning Mercedes DTM stint, but it…

Over the last four grands prix before the summer break Max Verstappen finished fifth, second, fifth again and fourth. An average finish of fourth place doesn’t usually deliver world championships. Those missed points were pocketed by his rivals. One out-scored Verstappen by 27 over that period, another by 23. Yet the prospect the 2024 championship will slip out of his…

Formula E burst into life for the first time ten years ago next month, with the 2014 Beijing E-Prix. Arguably, the incident between Nico Prost and Nick Heidfeld on the final lap remains the championship’s most iconic moment. Since then, the series has crowned nine different Drivers’ Champions, with the series evolving year-on-year. Mandatory car swaps have disappeared, and Attack…

RaceFans Live returns this weekend as the Formula 1 season resumes after the summer break. Join us on RaceFans Live throughout every session of the Dutch Grand Prix weekend. Look out for the live page on the site during every session and follow all the action with your fellow RaceFans. There’s more racing action besides this weekend. The IndyCar season…

Formula 1 has only recently agreed its new technical regulations for the 2026 season, but already thoughts are turning to what comes next. The series is pinning high hopes on the introduction of ‘sustainable’ fuel for the season after next, alongside the most powerful hybrid power units the series has seen so far. But F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali is already…

Red Bull’s chief technical director Adrian Newey says his forthcoming RB17 track car produces more downforce than its bespoke tyres can cope with while cornering. The star designer said they have solved the problem by reducing the downforce his Formula 1-inspired car generates above certain speeds. This is understood to have been achieved using active aerodynamics at the front and…