Mercedes is in an unexpected situation in this course. Yes, you already know her. You know what it’s like to not be the best. They know it from what they experienced in 2022. But no, this year they didn’t think it would be the same. They thought they would find the key. With the key. With the perfect car to beatRed Bull. But not. It is not like this. They’re on the job. They are working. Working to reduce the gap. To win again. To fight to win. And yes, that makes them so happy and happy. “It’s exciting, in its own way, to fight to improve the car week by week,” said James Allison, technical director from Mercedes. “If Red Bull is where it is…” And he explains: “Yes, all we will feel upset for not being competitive, but it is an u...
When you take a look at the latest releases of the quintessential German premium trio: Mercedes, BMW and Audi, one cannot help but ignore that those with the four rings are somewhat behind in range renewal and, above all, electrification. There are the refreshed BMW X3 and Mercedes GLC, while the Audi Q5 for sale is an update to the second generation (dating back to 2017). If we talk about electric, Mercedes and BMW already have representative sedans, the EQS and BMW i7… and with smaller sedans, in the case of the BMW i4 and i5 or the Mercedes EQE. At Audi, they’re limited to the Q8 e-tron and Q4 e-tron (okay, let’s even support the e-tron GT). It is something that anyone can observe and that the CEO of the Volkswagen Group, Oliver Blume, has recognized when admitting tha...
Enlarge CDA June 22, 2023 0 BMW will continue with its “controversial” stylistic strategy, which is giving them good results, according to the brand’s head of Design. The latest BMW designs have generated quite a bit of controversy among fans and the media. The exaggerated “kidneys” of the grille of the M3, the separated headlights of the X7, etc. have caused negative reactions even among former senior officials of the brand. From the Bavarian company, however, the stylistic strategy of the brand has always been defended, which seems to have continuity in the future… albeit with some caveats. This was expressed by the director of Design of the BMW Group, Adrian van Hooydonk, who, after clarifying that the company is not ignoring what fans are saying, has pointed out...
The evolution of the team Aston Martin in relation to the performance last year has been more than remarkable. If the British are in third position of the Constructors’ World Cupis largely thanks to the constant work of the engineers in trying to strengthen the weak points of his car. Precisely, one of the biggest weaknesses of Aston Martin is the efficiency from his system of DRS. It is also one of the points where they are furthest from each other. Red Bull and, if I can solve it, Fernando Alonso You will be able to fight for greater things. Tom McCulloghAston Martin’s director of performance, has been quite overwhelming through some statements collected by ‘Race Fans’: “We are working on that (in the DRS)”. “That has been a focus area for us.. E...
10 photos Enlarge CDA June 23, 2023 0 The only example of the TVR Cerbera Speed 12, considered the most dangerous car in the world, has just been sold at auction for €700,000. Back in 1997, the British automobile company TVR announced as a prototype what was considered by many to be the most dangerous car of the moment. Conceived as the car that could break all performance records, hardly a single example was manufactured, which, curiously, has just been sold at auction for just over 700,000 euros. Under the name of TVR Cerbera Speed 12, it is a model suitable for driving on the road and not a mere exercise in style to compete on the circuit. TVR was serious at the end of the 90s: it wanted to build the sportiest car of the moment. Its production was canceled for being too wild and pow...
78 points difference between max verstappen and Fernando Alonso14 races remain on the calendar for Formula 1… and the lion of Aston Martin licks its lips stalking its prey. Despite ominous predictions, after the improvements made and verified in Canada, which show the gap between Red Bull and Aston Martin in just a tenthno one on the grid hides that the Silverstone team and the two-time F1 world champion They are the main rivals of the Austrians. With the new enhancement packages that Aston Martin will bring in Austria and Great Britain it is expected to be able to fight face to face with Verstappenand who knows if we still have time to dream. In his column for the German edition of ‘Sky Sports’, Ralf Schumacher He believes that already in Spielberg we will see a real bat...
Cupra’s first model as an independent brand was the Cupra Ateca. It hit the market in 2019 with a very powerful version, the 2.0 TSI with 300 hp and all-wheel drive, being a very convincing vehicle, as we saw in our test. Shortly after the model had an update, in 2020, where nothing was changed in the mechanical section. Now the strategy of the Seat León and Formentor is copied, adding new engines, the 1.5 TSI of 150 CV and the 2.0 TSI of 190 CV. These mechanics (both with the DGT C label) are associated with the 7-speed DSG automatic transmission. The access mechanics is front-wheel drive, the 190 CV has all-wheel drive like the 300 CV VZ. For now Although the novelties in the range of engines are the most outstanding, the compact SUV also debuts other aesthetic details, such as a n...
Marc Márquez has a contract with Slinguntil 2024. The Catalan, great champion of MotoGPyou could change scenery once your contract expires at not having a machine to trust and that allows him to win, or fight to win, a new world title. At the moment, in 2023, not only is it not that he hasn’t won a race but he hasn’t finished a single one on Sunday either. The reason, falls. many falls. Falls that in part, a large part, are because the Honda is not exactly reliable. Because he has to go to the limit on each line and that, of course, carries more than a risk. risk that he assumes, and that has led him to not even be able to contest the tests in Germany and the Netherlands. “Marc has a contract, but…” Now, it is Honda who has ruled on the future of Márquez. It h...
Lewis Hamilton’s admiration for Fernando Alonso is total. The British pilot has made it clear on many occasions, assuring that He has been the toughest opponent he has ever faced in his career, and in 2023 he is enjoying fighting with him on the track again. Those who were teammates at McLaren in 2007 have staged three spectacular battles at the start of the season, at the Bahrain, Azerbaijan and Canadian Grands Prix. In all three cases, Alonso managed to win the game over the Mercedes driver, revealing the great moment he is going through. For this reason, Hamilton assures that he has missed him in recent seasons in the fight for the title, and that he would like to fight both with him and with Max Verstappen for a World Cup. “I’m happy, first of all, to be back in the f...
honda bleeds out. The Japanese team is in the most delicate moment in its history after a disappointing start to the season in which they have spent from being a leading team to being at the bottom of the grid. The crisis broke out at the German Grand Prix, in which Marc Márquez decided not to run after suffering five falls. The man from Cervera then assured that the bike was not giving more and that it was too dangerous to drive. All Honda riders have sustained injuries in the first section of the season and they are, by far, the ones that have gone to the ground the most. History has repeated itself at the Dutch Grand Prix. Despite the fact that Márquez has not suffered any major problems, apart from a drop in the standings due to a driving error, failed to get past seventeenth position ...
Updated: June 25, 2023 | 06:00 June 25, 2023 | 20:13 Red Bull has signed a record start to the season. They have been the team that has led the most superiority over their rivals since the start of the hybrid era in 2014, and in the Austrian Grand Prix they will seek to break an even more important record. It is, neither more nor less, the record for most consecutive wins. It is currently held by Mercedes, which won the first eight races of 2019also with amazing superiority. The race was resolved with an epic duel between Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc that ended with the Dutchman taking the first victory of his career from the Ferrari with three laps to go. There are a lot of similarities between the current championship situation and how they got to that race. Mercedes struggled to a...
Aston Martin’s performance has amazed everyone. The Silverstone team has starred an unprecedented feat in Formula 1 recent, going from having the penultimate team on the grid to being the second team, and all this, in a few months. The AMR 23 has maintained a good performance in all the grand prix, with the exception of the eventful Gran Prmeio de España. However, the rival teams had the suspicion that the green car had a great weakness: fast corners. Race after race, telemetry showed that the Aston Martin was the fastest car in braking, slow cornering and traction, even beating Red Bull. However, in the fast sections, they were pulverized by the energy drink team and overtaken by Mercedes. But that not a problem for Aston Martinsince, according to its technical director, Dan Fallows...