Lando Norris has made a brave call here. But when you talk with the senior people at McLaren, it’s easy to see why the team has inspired such confidence within him; it feels like a team going places, with a vision and a clear idea of how to achieve it. Also it has been his

Even if Formula 1 teams carry over some parts from last year into their 2024 car designs, what really can transform a car are the big items that have to be changed to alter the overall architecture of the car. This includes the chassis, rollover bar structure, side-impact structures, nose, fuel tank location and shape,

Lando Norris’s tacit admission he does not want to go up against Max Verstappen as Red Bull Formula 1 team-mates was honest, rational and, in the eyes of his critics, woefully unambitious. His comments are an easy stick to beat him with. However those doing just that seem to have completely missed the point. This

Legendary Formula 1 race engineer Rob Smedley is our special guest on the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast. Smedley joins host Edd Straw and Mark Hughes to delve into the art of engineering in F1 and explain a craft much talked about but not always well understood. This includes a look at the

Is Lando Norris’s candid admission that he doesn’t want to join the “best driver in the world” at Red Bull evidence of his lack of ambition or it is simply the smart attitude to have? That’s the topic of our latest video in which Scott Mitchell-Malm, Ben Anderson and Glenn Freeman debate whether Norris is

Over the years we have seen many different types of Formula 1 car launches. Some showed off new cars, others old cars with a new paint job, and more often than not today it’s just simple virtual renders with few actual details revealed. Personally, I always enjoyed a ‘running’ launch where you actually see the

Few driver-engineer relationships in Formula 1 are as well-remembered as Felipe Massa’s with Rob Smedley at Ferrari from 2006-13. That’s in part a legacy of some lasting team radio soundbites but it was also a partnership that struck up 11 wins while Ferrari was still a prime championship-challenging force in the 2000s, and one that

With the new Formula 1 season rapidly approaching, every team wants to have the most competitive car possible.  That means eliminating key weaknesses that will help a team unlock its full potential. So The Race has selected the number one priority each of the 10 teams must focus on in 2024 in our latest video:

McLaren’s Formula 1 team is plotting a path to fighting for world championships as an independent using customer engines, despite various links to manufacturer tie-ups – the most recent being late last year. The first example of such speculation was when Toyota driver Ryo Hirakawa joined McLaren’s driver development programme, announced at the Japanese Grand

When Aston Martin takes the wraps off its 2024 Formula 1 challenger, the AMR24, in a couple of weeks, what it looks like may matter a lot less than how it may change through the year. Admittedly, drastic visual differences are likely going to be less prominent than the first two seasons of this generation