Red Bull’s dominance is coming to an end. At least, that’s what they believe in Mercedes. the german team he has made a big step forward in the last few races thanks to the replacement of its ‘zero pontoons’ concept by a much more conventional design. That change has allowed them to chain two consecutive races getting on the podium for the first time in the season, and in the Spanish Grand Prix they did it with both cars. The good performance of the ‘B’ version of the W14 has aroused optimism in brackley after a disappointing start to the season, as he explains Mike ElliottCTO of Mercedes. “I think we are always aware that we have not produced the car we want to produce“, explains Elliott in statements collected by ‘Car and Driver’...
Noise is part of the essence of Formula 1. It is a premise shared by drivers, teams and fans of the premier category of motorsports and to which Stefano Domenicali, CEO of Liberty Media and head of the championship. The ‘Great Circus’ will release a new technical regulation in 2026 that will mean a technological revolution. Engines will be simplified and will bet on the synthetic fuels to reduce emissions and make the sport environmentally sustainable. This direction has the support of the teams and was key, among other things, to attract Audi and convince Honda to return as a manufacturer in 2026 at the hands of Aston Martin. However, it worried the fans, since this change could mean a reduction in noise and in the power of the engines as already happened in 2014. The sound, k...
tremendous mourning the one they kept Fernando Alonso andlewis hamilton in Canada. Yes, one that has earned the Asturian to be, once again, among the best in terms of overtaking in the month of June. Yes, one that reminded of days gone by in F1. So ‘past’ that english jokedafter the test on how he could be faster than the two-time world champion at the start of Gilles Villeneuve. A joke that left Alonso with a face that It didn’t take long for it to go viral. networking. Because Fernando was next door when Lewis said it, the Englishman clearly knowing that the one from Asturias I would listen to his sentence. Second was Fernando; third finished Lewis. On the track, a tremendous duel in the lap by lap in a last ‘stint’ in which as soon as Alonso was able to pus...
The end of the ‘soap opera Hamilton’ is near. The seven-time world champion will continue at Mercedes in 2024 and the deal will be announced in the coming weeks. This is stated by various British media. The star team’s poor start to the season raised doubts about Hamilton’s future. In fact, the Briton’s environment slipped the possibility of a transfer to Ferrari, giving rise to an exchange that would end Charles Leclerc at Mercedes. However, the situation has changed in recent months. The German team has managed to straighten the course in the sporty aspect, and the W14 It is a much more competitive car since they put aside the ‘zero sidepods’ concept and opted for a more conventional design. Mercedes has chained in Spain and Canada two back-to-ba...
On June 3, the seven years after the accident that cost Luis Salom his life. It happened at the Montmeló circuit during free practice for the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix in the Moto2 category. Salom maintained a great rivalry with Maverick Viñales, who took the Moto3 title from him in 2012, although the fight on the track, far from confronting them, brought them even closer. Viñales bought the motorcycle with which Luis Salom competed the previous year “three or four years ago”, which had a special value, since it was the first with which he achieved a podium in the world championship. But a few weeks ago, coinciding with the seventh anniversary of the death of the ‘Mexican’, which is what his friends called Salom, Viñales decided to surprise the Mallorcan’s mothe...
Red Bull is not unattainable. It is the message that Mercedes has been sending constantly in recent days. The German team took a great leap forward at the Spanish Grand Prix and confirmed it in Canada, getting on the podium in both races. This revolution is mainly due to the package of improvements that they launched in Monaco, with which they definitively renounced their peculiar design without sidepods. Now, Mercedes sees the option of fighting for victories much closer. In fact, from Brackley they assure that they will be able to do it in the final part of the season. To do this, they will introduce improvements in the Great Britain Grand Prix, which will be held in Silverstone between July 7 and 9. Both Mercedes and Aston Martin are cutting into Red Bull’s lead, which was crushin...
6 photos Enlarge CDA June 24, 2023 0 A very special unit of the Ford Puma goes up for auction, the two-seater sports car that delighted drivers at the end of the 90s The most veteran will remember that a few years ago the Puma that Ford sold was not a utility with an SUV look, but a small two-door sports car with fantastic dynamic behavior, so much so that connoisseurs dismissed it as a miniature Porsche. Now, a unit of this iconic 1999 Ford Puma has come up for auction in the UK. This is a special version named Ford Racing Pumaof which only 500 units were manufactured and only for Great Britain. Only 500 units of this very special Ford Puma were manufactured This 1999 Ford Racing Puma has traveled just over 116,000 kilometers, but it’s still a big draw for car collectors with a spic...
Marc Márquez has hit rock bottom. In the five Grands Prix that he has contested in the 2023 season, he has suffered 14 falls, losing four races due to injury. In fact, failed to finish any main racehaving achieved in the sprint races the 15 points that he has in his locker. At the German Grand Prix, his total divorce with the leadership of Honda became more than evident. The decision of the Cervera driver not to race at the Sachsenring after the fall he suffered in the ‘warm up’ was the straw that broke the camel’s back, and in recent days the possibility has slipped, both by Márquez and the team. of break the contract that binds them until the end of 2024. In the Grand Prix of the Netherlands he suffered a fall again, this time in the qualifying session, although all the...
In 1994 the first agency of Mercedes Benz in Guadalajara. It was a glass pyramid, similar – all the proportion kept – to that of the Louvre museum in Paris. At the inauguration, I was accompanied by some soccer friends, including Roberto Assis, who played for Los Tecos and would later be the employer of his much more skilled brother, Ronaldinho Gaucho. When they uncovered the E-Class, with its four oval headlights, a mutual friend told him, obviously joking: “Driving one of those must be like kissing Brooke Shields”, the beauty reference of the time. He immediately replied: “It is not”. And that he replies: “Have you kissed Brooke Shields yet?”After everyone laughed, he said no, but that he had driven the Mercedes. Perhaps whoever has kissed the American...
max verstappen bores Eddie Jordan. The founder of the Jordan GP team, a team that coincidences in life led to the Aston Martin with which he runs Fernando Alonso, has recognized that the mastery of Dutch You are literally bored to death. Above all in Catalonia and Canada, You win races for the Dutchman and for a Red Bull team that at the moment has been full of victories in 2023. Yes, they dominate. They dominate a lot, and Jordan doesn’t like that at all. This is how he expressed himself in the ‘Formula for Success’ podcast: “I didn’t like the last two races. “I’m dying of boredom, it makes it very boring. More than in the Schumacher era,” he insists. And he continues: “He is too good. Surely with time he will be considered as one of t...
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the sports car manufacturer, an exclusive collection of the best-selling XBOX console has been created with colors based on the historical decorations of Porsche racing cars. Thanks to the rise of racing games and simracing, we are increasingly seeing collaborations between manufacturer brands that seek a presence in the lore of video games or even create their own competitive teams in simracing, such as Ford and its Fordzilla team. In this case, XBOX and Porsche team up to bring the iconic sports car manufacturer’s racing designs to the Forza (Horizon and Motorsport) franchise. In this case, the graphics also reach the physical consoles themselves and their devices. This summer the following versions of the console can be seen at the main a...
Sergio Perez he feels the pressure on him like never before. Yes, it has always been questioned. has always felt the sword of Damocles. But no, it has never been like now. It has never been so clear as after the Canadian GP. Because after Gilles Villeneuve, again, the position of the Aztec in Red Bull has been called into question. But this time it’s more than that, because Helmut Marko has taken action. One of the most authoritative and clear voices of the energy drinks already has warned to the Mexican about what cannot happen in Austria. “You can’t make a single mistake”, stated emphatically about Sergio Perez. And he told him what he must do: “You must return to organize your classification in Austria”. Because if not… be careful: “We hav...