The US automaker Ford returns to Formula 1 after more than 20 years. For the 2026 season, the traditional brand will again be part of the racing series that it dominated in the late 1960s and 1970s, Ford announced on Friday. After the deal between the Red Bull team and the Volkswagen subsidiary Porsche fell through last year, Ford will in future supply the squad led by two-time world champion Max Verstappen, as well as the sister team Alpha Tauri....
The new team boss of the Williams racing team will differ in many ways from his predecessor. The new one is James Vowles, previously head of strategy at Mercedes. It is certainly binding, but unlike Jost Capito, the Briton will hardly make it his trademark to wish the Formula 1 friends of the payment channel Sky from the paddock a nice race; always combined with the request to keep your fingers crossed. It was of little use. Williams was bottom...
Mercedes, Red Bull, Cadillac? Billion question causes trouble in Formula 1 01/10/2023 8:46 p.m Formula 1 is growing strongly. This attracts newcomers - and raises questions worth billions. Because the sum that new teams would currently have to pay seems too low in view of the boom. At least that's what the racing teams say. The world motorsport association FIA is surprised. Formula 1 is heading for a power struggle in the dispute over expanding the starting field. The US...
Formula 1 could always be more American!It has long been no secret that the US racing team "Andretti Autosport" of ex-racing driver Michael Andretti (60) wants to get into the pinnacle of motorsport. Now the ex-Formula 1 driver has found a powerful partner.Mega corporation General Motors wants to start with the legendary US brand Cadillac together as "Andretti Cadilac"! This is where you will find content from Twitter In order to interact with or display content from Twitter and other...
Small, non-representative survey among long-established Nurembergers from the past few days: whether they the racecourse in Nuremberg-Reichelsdorf say something The same reaction was always observed. So please, almost everyone knows this historic railway. One put it this way: "It's part of the city's identity."Of course, none of the interviewees had it in mind that the city planning committee met shortly before Christmas to decide on the fate of precisely this identity feature. Especially not how the vote turned out. For...
The German racing legend Hans-Joachim Stuck is convinced that Mick Schumacher will find his way back to a regular cockpit in Formula 1 in the medium term. "Strietzel" Stuck congratulated the son of record world champion Michael Schumacher on his upcoming station as a reserve and test driver at Mercedes. "Apart from a regular cockpit, he could not have gotten a better place than the test driver role at Mercedes," said the 71-year-old in an interview with "Eurosport". After weeks...
The bill, which Nuremberg's city planning committee will vote on this Thursday, makes no effort to cover up. First sentence: "One of the oldest and probably the only largely preserved combined cycle and motorcycle track in Germany, a nationwide testimony to industrial and sports history from 1904, is to be demolished."Why? The answer to this leads back to 2016, when the association "Sportplatz Nürnberg 1903" sold the track to redeem money for a modern velodrome. This project has now come...
One German goes, one comes!Nico Hülkenberg (35) completed his first kilometers in the new company car during the obligatory test drives at the end of the season. He was able to test his new racing car in Abu Dhabi. Before the final race, Haas announced that Hülkenberg would replace Mick Schumacher (23) from the coming season. Hülkenberg was allowed to practice for this. In 2023 he will then drive the US team's car for 24 races.The well-known 27: Hulkenberg's number...
Nine laps before the end of a great career that has seen him experience four world championship titles, 53 race wins and 57 pole positions, Sebastian Vettel once again shows the ambition that drove him to all that glory in the first place. On the radio, he reports to his team with a crisp tirade: “How can you be so wrong with your strategy?!” Vettel scolds. And of course he's right! For his departure, the strategists at Aston Martin had...
The chairs to his right shake, racers' stomachs bend with laughter, only his own seat is very still, as if stapled. How stuck is Mick Schumacher's gaze. The corners of the mouth anyway. And this image is now remembered when the time of the son of the record world champion in a Formula 1 cockpit comes to an end for the time being. With a last press conference at the Abu Dhabi harbor, which glitters like an amusement park, at...
