With the 2025 F1 season set to get underway in Melbourne, the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team, led by Toto Wolff is one of 10 teams, preparing its drivers—George Russell and rookie Kimi Antonelli— for the season ahead. This will be a big season for 18-year-old Antonelli, who replaces seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton who will…
Liberty Media announced that they have prolonged their contract with F1’s president and CEO Stefano Domenicali. The former Ferrari teamboss will now be at the helm of the sport through 2029, according to the press release. Domenicali took the role of F1’s president and CEO on Januari 1st 2021. While his plans have not received…
Oscar Piastri prepares for the season opener in his home town of Melbourne for the first time in his F1 career as the chance of rain threatens to shake up the Australian GP for the McLaren driver and his 19 competitors. On Tuesday, it was announced Oscar Piastri would extend his tenure with McLaren F1,…
Max Verstappen is of the opinion that McLaren have a significant edge over Red Bull heading into the Australian GP, the first race of the 2025 F1 season. The Milton Keynes team has understandably tempered its expectations after pre-season testing did not produce the results they had anticipated. With unusual weather conditions in Bahrain limiting…
KICK Sauber F1 team has officially announced when Jonathan Wheatley will assume the role of Team Principal. Wheatley is set to be part of the team’s transition into the Audi F1 Factory squad. The former Sporting Director of Red Bull will make his race debut as Sauber’s Team Principal at the Japanese GP in Suzuka. …
During an extensive media session on Monday, Cadillac F1 team principal Graeme Lowdon expressed the importance of being involved in building up talent so that it does not end up at the “end of a conveyor belt.” Lowdon has already stated that the drivers will be picked on “merit” and that Cadillac is not shying…
Ahead of the F1 Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park this weekend, home hero Oscar Piastri has signed a multi-year contract extension with McLaren F1, with Zak Brown and Andrea Stella also giving their reactions to the deal. The F2 and F3 champion’s previous deal took him through to the end of 2026. 2025 marks…
Technical Director of Racing Bulls, Jody Egginton, has announced that he is joining Red Bull Advanced Technologies as its Engineering Director. Following a stint spanning over a decade with the Faenza-based team, the British engineer will embark upon his new non-F1 role on April 1, 2025. As Racing Bulls find themselves without a Technical Director…
In the second part of Pit Debrief‘s exclusive interview with former F1 engineer Marco Schüpbach, we discussed his two years working as race engineer to Sergio Pérez, and why he struggled so much against Max Verstappen. He was the Mexican’s first race engineer in the sport. After working as a performance engineer for Robert Kubica,…
Esteban Ocon says he is “not a guy who’s here to crash into my team-mate” ahead of the 2025 F1 season. He has had a few well-publicised incidents during his Formula 1 career. Many would say that it is not accurate to say that the Frenchman crashes into a lot of people. He has been…
