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McLaren are running Oscar Piastri in their 2021 Formula 1 car at the Circuit de Catalunya this week as they prepare him for his world championship debut next year. Advert | Become a Supporter & go ad-free It is the third time Piastri has driven for the team since joining them from Alpine, where he was a reserve driver. Alpine gave Piastri his first experience of contemporary F1 machinery in last year’s official post-season test day. As their junior driver Piastri drove two-year-old F1 cars in private tests from 2020 to halfway through this year, when he stunned the team by signing to race for McLaren next year. McLaren are now embarking on a similar programme to the one Piastri had as an Alpine junior. His first two-day test took place at Paul Ricard at the start of November in an unspecified older car, once an agreement had been reached to allow Piastri to depart Alpine early. He then drive the team’s current car in the only day of post-season testing at Yas … [Read more...] about Piastri tests 2021 McLaren F1 car in Spain · RaceFans

Listen to this article Sargeant will make his F1 debut next year with Williams , replacing Nicholas Latifi after securing enough superlicence points through his rookie Formula 2 season to make the step up. Williams has now revealed that Sargeant will race with #2 as his permanent number in F1, becoming the second driver to use it since the system was introduced in 2014. The team made the announcement in a short social post on its channels on Wednesday with the hashtag #LS2. Sargeant was able to pick #2 as his number as more than two seasons have passed since it was last used by Stoffel Vandoorne , who raced with it during his stint at McLaren in 2017 and 2018. Williams team principal Jost Capito revealed over the United States Grand Prix weekend in October that Sargeant was in line for a seat in 2023 so long as he gained the required superlicence points. Sargeant passed the threshold by taking fourth place in the F2 championship at the Abu Dhabi season … [Read more...] about Sargeant picks permanent race number for rookie F1 season

Logan Sargeant has chosen the number he will race with when he makes his Formula 1 debut next year. Advert | Become a Supporter & go ad-free The Williams driver has selected number two. However he admitted it was not his first choice. Sargeant originally planned to race as number three. Daniel Ricciardo has used that number since the FIA allowed drivers to select them in 2014. Although Ricciardo will not compete in the 2023 season, the number three remains allocated to him “throughout his career in Formula 1″, according to the rules. The number will not be available for anyone else to use until two consecutive seasons pass without him entering a round of the championship. Sargeant has therefore chosen to use number two, which he last raced with in 2018, when he finished fourth in the Formula Renault Eurocup (pictured). “I used to run it in Formula Renault, and I had a pretty good season that year,” he said. The number two was last used by a driver in … [Read more...] about Sargeant to race in F1 using number two as Ricciardo’s three is unavailable · RaceFans

Ross Brawn has applauded Formula 1’s decision to do away with unanimous decisions, saying with eight teams “we can get things done in the short term” while only five are needed for decisions affecting the next season. Appointed as F1’s managing director by Liberty Media back in 2017, Brawn, at times, found himself butting heads with a team or two as any changes he and the rest of the sport’s bosses wanted to make had to be signed off by the teams. He said back in 2020 that it was “frustrating” for F1 bosses and the FIA that they had to get unanimous approval from the teams to make changes. He would rather F1 rely on a majority ruling. “I think we need the opinion of the competitors – we need to listen and we need to have the majority of competitors in favour of these ideas,” he told Racer at the time. “And I think if you can’t convince the majority, then you’re failing that. If you get one or maybe two people stopping something which the vast majority want and F1 want and the … [Read more...] about Ross Brawn applauds F1’s decision to drop unanimous agreement: ‘We can get things done’

Listen to this article For its first year as Aston Martin after the rebranding of Racing Point, four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel arrived for the final two seasons of his F1 career. For 2023, his seat will be taken by Fernando Alonso , another all-time great who ditched Alpine in favour of Aston Martin. Engineering talent has arrived from throughout the grid, bolstering a team that, after years of punching above its weight on a shoestring budget, now has the might to mount a charge for the very front of the grid. Back in March 2021, Stroll outlined a five-year plan for Aston Martin to be challenging for F1 titles, with a big part of the blueprint being a new, state-of-the-art factory out of which it will operate. Last September, ground was broken on the 37,000-square metre site around the existing factory at Silverstone, once home to the team's distant predecessor, Jordan, with the goal of having it up and running in 2023. Last week, Motorsport.com was … [Read more...] about Inside Aston Martin’s new £200m ‘game changer’ F1 factory

Qualifying: 16-6 There was only one winner in the Haas team-mate battle, and it is fair to say it wasn’t Mick Schumacher, his failure to keep pace with Kevin Magnussen ultimately costing him his Formula 1 race seat. Schumacher found himself with a new team-mate for this year’s championship, Haas dropping his fellow 2021 rookie Nikita Mazepin due to circumstances out of the Russian driver’s hands. Perhaps it would have been a different story – and different 2023 plans – for Schumacher had that not happened. But it did, Haas recalling former driver Magnussen in the 11th hour of pre-season testing in what proved to be an inspired choice by Guenther Steiner and co. The Dane was immediately in the points, scoring on his returning with a brilliant fifth place at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Haas was up and running, the team taking the all-new technical regulations by the scruff as, like they did in 2016, they used their year off – which 2021 pretty much was – to design a decent car. … [Read more...] about Kevin Magnussen v Mick Schumacher: One clear winner, one out of a job

For its second season under GT3 regulations in 2022, the DTM took a major step forward in competitiveness. Not only were grid sizes bigger, only once dipping below 20 cars as a product of the Hockenheim race one crash-fest, but the pool of quality drivers scrapping for honours was back to a level comparable with the manufacturer-based Class 1 era with a mix of established factory drivers and hotshoes with plenty to prove. No less than 11 different drivers took a pole position, while the same number took victories in a season characterised by unpredictability. That is to be expected in a championship governed by Balance of Performance, which changed regularly throughout race weekends in an effort to keep the different brands in check, but it meant consistency was a precious commodity. Through it all came Sheldon van der Linde, who delivered BMW a first title since 2016 as his Schubert Motorsport team and the BMW M4 GT3 made a memorable introduction to the series. But which of … [Read more...] about Ranking the top 10 drivers of DTM 2022

Virtuosi Racing has announced Amaury Cordeel and Alpine junior Jack Doohan as its two drivers for the 2023 Formula 2 season. Advert | Become a Supporter & go ad-free Doohan will embark on his second season in the series and with the team, having come sixth in the championship with three race wins in his rookie campaign. He made two appearances in Formula 1 free practice sessions with Alpine at the end of the season. “I’m thrilled to be continuing with Virtuosi Racing for my second year in F2,” said Doohan, who is also aiming to be Alpine’s reserve driver in Formula 1 for 2023. “After a strong first season together, I couldn’t be happier to be going into 2023 with the same great team around me. I can’t wait to get redemption from this season.” Cordeel will also be a F2 sophomore in 2023, having driven for Van Amersfoort Racing this season. He missed one round after he collected 12 penalty points on his licence, triggering an automatic ban. After returning he … [Read more...] about F2: Cordeel joins Alpine’s Doohan at Virtuosi for 2023 · RaceFans

As news of Mattia Binotto’s resignation made headlines, Charles Leclerc thanked the Italian for their “intense” but “challenging” four years together. Ferrari announced on Tuesday that, after 28 years together and four as the team principal at Ferrari, Binotto would leave the team at the end of the season after handing in his resignation . “I am leaving a company that I love, which I have been part of for 28 years, with the serenity that comes from the conviction that I have made every effort to achieve the objectives set,” said the Italian. “I leave a united and growing team. A strong team, ready, I’m sure, to achieve the highest goals, to which I wish all the best for the future.” Binotto’s tenure ends after four years without a World title and although this season Ferrari won races, something they didn’t manage in 2020 nor 2021, it wasn’t enough for the higher-ups or the Tifosi. The Scuderia went from leading both championships after the Australian Grand Prix to a … [Read more...] about Ferrari drivers pay tribute to departing Mattia Binotto after he resigns as team boss