In the first part of an exclusive interview with Pit Debrief, former F1 engineer Steve Hallam discussed his time with Lewis Hamilton at McLaren, and his hopes the Ferrari driver will make it eight Drivers’ Championships at the Scuderia. At the 2021 F1 Abu Dhabi GP, the now 105-time race winner looked set to win…
Irish and McLaren development driver Alex Dunne has been confirmed by Rodin Motorsport to drive for them in the 2025 F2 season. He will be driving alongside Australian Christian Mansell. The driver from Offaly made an immediate impact after moving up to single-seaters in 2021. He took pole position at Spa-Francorchamps in Spanish F4, although…
Ferrari F1 has confirmed that Zhou Guanyu and Antonio Giovinazzi will share reserve driver duties once the season commences at Albert Park in Melbourne next month. He admitted towards the end of last season that a Ferrari reserve role was a possibility as Sauber completely changed their line-up. The history for Zhou Guanyu at Ferrari…
The start times for the 24 races in the 2025 F1 season have been officially confirmed, and the Las Vegas GP is the big change. Max Verstappen sealed the crown there last year. The race on the West Coast of the United States has started at 22:00 local time in 2023 and 2024. It came…
Pit Debrief can confirm that Richard Wood is stepping up to the role as race engineer for Red Bull Racing F1 in 2025, and he will work with new signing Liam Lawson. It was first reported by De Telegraaf. The Scot has been with Red Bull since 2013. He started out working on the strategy…
The FIA has issued an official statement stating that additional tests will take place on front wings from the F1 Spanish GP. The race near Barcelona is round 9 of the 2025 season. As is standard in Formula 1, plenty of complaints and politics were at play throughout 2024. Things reached boiling point following the…
Mercedes and Red Bull bosses Toto Wolff and Christian Horner have given their first reactions to Lewis Hamilton appearing in Scuderia Ferrari F1 colours. The social media world blew up last week as the seven-time World Champion posed for his first photo at Maranello. At the time of writing this, it has reached 5.6 million…
Seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton had a day to forget in Barcelona as he crashes out of testing for Ferrari F1. The 40-year-old kicked things off with the Scuderia at Fiorano last week. He did some running at Ferrari’s test track to bed himself into the team. Hamilton also got to work with Riccardo Adami,…
Three-time Grand Prix winner Johnny Herbert will no longer be a steward at Grand Prix races, the FIA confirmed on Wednesday morning. Over the last number of years, the former British driver has combined his role as a steward at some races with media work. Previously it was with Sky Sports until he left the…
In an exclusive interview with Auto Motor und Sport, legendary racing designer Adrian Newey discussed his decision to leave Red Bull F1 after nearly two decades with the Milton Keynes-based squad. During his time with the team, the Brit was a key figure in helping them win seven Drivers’ Championships and six Constructors’ Championships. After…
