Red Bull Racing has finally concluded a deal that will see Sergio Perez walk away from a two-year deal for 2025 and ‘26 that was announced back in June. After his arrangement with the team was announced the Mexican had a troubled time for much of the rest of the...
Nico Hulkenberg says that the progress of Haas from last place in the World Championship in 2023 to seventh this season was “a hell of an achievement” for the US-owned team. Haas struggled badly with tyre management with the VF-23, but managed to successfully address...
Kevin Magnussen says he wanted to “try something special” with a spectacular charge on the first lap of his final Formula 1 start with Haas in Abu Dhabi. The Dane started 14th and helped by the Max Verstappen/Lando Norris clash and some charging moves he was up to...
McLaren Formula 1 boss Andrea Stella has paid tribute to the “Samurai” qualities of longtime engineer Hiroshi Imai, who will leave the team in January after a stint of over 15 years. Imai was one of several former Bridgestone “tyre whisperers” who were picked up by F1...
Mercedes Formula 1 technical director James Allison says that the team enjoyed a “fantastic run” with Lewis Hamilton despite the frustration of the lack of a “fairy tale ending” with a win or podium in the Abu Dhabi finale. Hamilton started his final race with the...
Pierre Gasly achieved the three targets he set himself in Abu Dhabi by guaranteeing Alpine sixth place in the constructors’ World Championship, passing Nico Hulkenberg for 10th in the drivers’ version, and making it to the end of the 2024 season without causing any...
George Russell says that he didn’t need a message from Toto Wolff late in the Abu Dhabi GP telling him to “keep it super clean with Lewis” given the level of respect between the two team mates. Running a different strategy from 10th on the grid in his final race with...
Max Verstappen says he made a quick apology to Oscar Piastri after their clash in the Abu Dhabi GP to “avoid any weird feelings” between the pair heading into the winter break. Verstappen hit Piastri at the first corner, causing both drivers to spin. The Dutchman...
Lewis Hamilton says his dramatic last lap move on Mercedes team mate George Russell in Abu Dhabi was a case of “now or never” after his successful chase. Hamilton was on a different strategy to rivals, having started from 16th on the hard tyres and run a long opening...
Lando Norris admitted that the thought the World Championship was “not looking as likely" after team mate Oscar Piastri was nudged into a spin by Max Verstappen on the first lap in Abu Dhabi. The incident left Norris on his own out front with no margin for error while...
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella admits that losing the 2010 World Championship at the final round in Abu Dhabi was the “most painful day” of his career – and helped him became the leader he is today. Stella was Fernando Alonso’s engineer at Ferrari at the time,...
Charles Leclerc says he “believes in miracles” and is motivated to “do something very special” after a disastrous qualifying session in Abu Dhabi. Leclerc had a 10-place penalty for taking a new battery and then lost his best lap to a track limits offence in Q2,...
Lewis Hamilton was left frustrated in qualifying in Abu Dhabi after a stray plastic bollard became stuck under his car for the last part of his final lap in Q1. Hamilton hit it after it was dislodged by Kevin Magnussen, who had cut across the inside of a corner in an...
Veteran race engineer Mark Slade has left the Haas Formula 1 team on the eve of Kevin Magnussen’s final race in Abu Dhabi. Slade was still looking after Magnussen last weekend in Qatar, but he is not at the Yas Circuit, and is understood to have cut his ties with the...
Former F1 boss Chase Carey is back in the paddock in Abu Dhabi this weekend having been appointed a director of Liberty Media. Carey was chairman of F1 from 2016 to 2022, and served as CEO from 2017 to 2021, before Stefano Domenicali took the reins. He was responsible...
Red Bull boss Christian Horner admits that extending Sergio Perez’s deal for two years early in the season “obviously didn’t work.” Perez’s new contract was announced on June 4 after a run of podiums early in the season, but immediately after a first lap accident in...
