The Racing Bulls completed three days of TPC testing at Imola, beginning their preparations for 2025. Newcomer Isack Hadjar and the now established Yuki Tsunoda took to the track. The Italian team will return to Imola again on February 17 for the first filming day of...
The 2025 season will represent a sort of 'new beginning' for the Visa Cash App RB Team, better known as the Racing Bulls. Their partnership with the parent company, Red Bull, will be further tightened. With rumours of the team's sale averted for the moment, the team...
Liam Lawson insists that a scrappy Qatar GP won’t impact his future prospects despite it coming just as Red Bull makes up its mind about who will replace Sergio Perez in 2025. Lawson spun at the first safety car restart in Qatar, forcing Valtteri Bottas off the road....
VCARB boss Laurent Mekies says that the Faenza outfit has to nail the car sweet spot in the last two races in order to beat rivals Alpine and Haas to sixth place in the World Championship. After Yuki Tsunoda’s ninth place in Las Vegas the team has 46 points to the 50...
RB has updated its VCARB01 chassis for the last three races by taking the rear suspension from the Red Bull RB20 – and the team is confident that it can recover sixth place in the World Championship after falling back to eighth. In recent years the Faenza outfit has...
Fred Vasseur says that Ferrari didn’t want to “fight” the FIA on the clampdown on skid blocks contained in a recent technical directive. The Italian outfit was one of several teams that has had to make changes to meet the clarification issued by the FIA, and which...
Liam Lawson admits that he made a mistake when he had contact with Sergio Perez in the Mexico City GP – but the New Zealander insists that he won’t change his approach to racing. Lawson also had a clash with Franco Colapinto later in the race, and eventually finished...
Yuki Tsunoda says that Formula 1 drivers are being expected to “drive like AI” in the wake of the raft of penalties dished out over the US GP weekend. He also compared the situation with the driverless autonomous racing event seen at the Yas Marina track this year....
RB Formula 1 team CEO Peter Bayer says that Liam Lawson’s grid penalty at the US GP allowed his engineers “to go a bit extreme” on setup. After a disappointing sprint the team tried something different heading into qualifying as it tried to optimise the latest upgrade...
RB boss Laurent Mekies admits that Red Bull and the Italian team could have tackled Daniel Ricciardo’s last race weekend in Singapore in a different way and the way it unfolded that it was “frustrating”. All parties insisted during the weekend that no decision had...
The RB/VCARB team has finally confirmed that Liam Lawson will drive in place of Daniel Ricciardo for the remainder of the 2024 Formula 1 season, starting in Austin. Ricciardo's departure had been rumoured for some time, and it was evident in Singapore that he knew it...
Daniel Ricciardo says he’s “prepared” for the Singapore GP to have been his final Formula 1 race and approached the weekend with that mindset. Liam Lawson is to replace the Australian in the RB team for the rest of the season, although there has been no announcement,...
Daniel Ricciardo has confirmed that Red Bull will make a decision on his Formula 1 future after the Singapore GP – and he insists that he doesn’t know what the call will be. It’s widely believed in the paddock that Ricciardo will be dropped for 2025 and replaced at RB...
Red Bull is set announce its plans for the second RB/VCARB seat after next weekend’s Singapore GP. Liam Lawson is widely expected to replace Daniel Ricciardo in 2025, and possibly also for the last few races of this season. It’s understood from sources that “all...
Yuki Tsunoda has suffered with aero issues with his VCARB throughout the Spa weekend, and he was still struggling with instability in qualifying. The Japanese driver came into the weekend knowing that he would be starting at the back of the grid due to a PU penalty...
Daniel Ricciardo was left “angry” after his VCARB Formula 1 team gave him what he felt was a poor strategy call in Hungary – and then failed to apologise on the in-lap for getting it wrong. The Australian started ninth on the medium tyre, and lost a couple of spots at...
