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Racing Point’s Sergio Perez believes the 2019 season could see another jump forward from the ever improving Sauber outfit. Thanks to a change of ownership in 2017 and extensive restructuring, Sauber avoided a painful demise from F1 and succeeded in putting itself back on track last season under the guidance of team boss Fred Vasseur. […]

Scuderia boss Mattia Binotto says Ferrari has raised the bar with its new-spec SF90, the work of an engineering team that tried to be as “extreme” as it could. The Italian outfit unleashed on Friday the prancing horse it hopes will bring the title back to Maranello this year. While many focused on the SF90’s […]

In all likelihood, Niki Lauda won’t be standing post in the Mercedes garage in Melbourne next month as the Austrian still has “a long way to go” on his path to a full recovery according to Helmut Marko. The Mercedes non-executive chairman is still in recovery mode after a critical condition diagnosed in July led […]

Renault’s engine reliability woes made a painful comeback in Bahrain, causing a double demise for the French team and some biting disparagement from Red Bull’s Christian Horner. Nico Hulkenberg and Daniel Ricciardo retired within seconds of each other in the closing stages of Sunday’s race, the victims of apparent engine failures. The double whammy deprived […]

Ross Brawn, F1’s managing director of motorsport, says that the Haas F1 Team’s controversial model “must be maintained” in the future. Haas entered Formula 1 in 2016 with a pioneering low-cost business model built on a close technical partnership with Ferrari. However, the partnership generated controversy among the sport’s mid-field teams which frowned upon the […]

A coalition of cyber activists and advocacy groups from 42 countries on Monday released a letter defending encryption and calling on governments to end efforts at undermining such digital privacy tools. “Encryption tools, technologies, and services are essential to protect against harm and to shield our digital infrastructure and personal communications from unauthorized access,” reads […]

Shanghai will host the first F1 Festival of the 2019 season next week, in the build-up to the Chinese Grand Prix, the 1000th race of the F1 World Championship. Formula 1 will leverage on the success of last year’s festival events and bring the sport to the streets of Shanghai, Chicago, Los Angeles and to […]

McLaren boss Zak Brown says it would be “optimistic” for the Woking-based outfit to expect itself to be able to fight wheel-to-wheel with Red Bull Racing on a regular basis this year, as was the case in Bahrain. McLaren’s 2019 contender is clearly a step up from its 2018 car as Carlos Sainz and Lando […]

“And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?” That’s the question which John Lennon puts to us in his famous Christmas song. In the chorus, he gets right to the point, to the heart of Christmas: “War is over, if you want it.” For some, that might seem like a leap of faith, […]