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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…

Aug 16, 2024, 06:42 PM ET Scott Bloomquist, a dirt track race car driver who was known for his bravado and for being one of the sport’s best, died Friday in a plane crash on his family’s farm in Mooresburg, Tennessee, friends and local officials said. Bloomquist, 60, stood out with his long hair and a race car that was…

Ryan McGee Close Ryan McGee ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Marty Smith Close Marty Smith ESPN ESPN NASCAR lead reporter Former NASCAR.com senior writer 15 years covering NASCAR Aug 15, 2024, 12:06 PM ET Austin Dillon, left, wrecked Joey Logano en route to…

Nico Müller has been announced by Porsche Motorsport as its new works driver, just one day after being confirmed as Norman Nato’s replacement at the Andretti FIA Formula E team. The German marque has said that the Swiss driver’s future with them “is currently being planned and will be announced at a later date”. Yesterday, the 32-year-old was announced by…

This season there was a face in the Formula E paddock familiar to anyone who followed Premier League football (soccer in American parlance). Jermaine Jenas is a former Premier League and England player, who featured 280 times in England’s top division, as well as more than 20 times for his national team. Since retiring in 2016, he has gone on…

Not everything is so boldly black and gold when it comes to DS Penske right now. Multi-faceted answers to questions in Formula E are not especially exceptional, although, in the case of automotive behemoth Stellantis and Formula E’s Penske operation, it’s one of the more complex subject matters to unravel. The alliance between DS Automobiles and Jay Penske’s eponymous organisation…

In the round-up: Formula E race winner and GP3 (now Formula 3) champion Mitch Evans says getting a place on the Formula 1 grid is down to chance as much as ability. In brief “Crazy opportunity” is only way into F1 – Evans Evans said he’d proven himself quicker than some F1 race drivers in simulator tests “but it brings…

Aug 13, 2024, 02:01 PM ET HOUSTON — IndyCar driver David Malukas, who was fired for missing races due to injuries after crashing a mountain bike, has signed a multiyear deal with A.J. Foyt Racing. The deal was announced Tuesday, three-plus months after the 22-year-old Malukas was released by Arrow McLaren without running an IndyCar race for the team due…

Nico Mueller will drive alongside Jake Dennis at the Andretti Formula E team next season as part of a deal that has been triggered by an agreement for Mueller to become a Porsche factory driver. As first reported by The Race, the former Dragon and Abt Cupra driver has been in negotiations with Porsche since early 2024 about a future…