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Recently-appointed Haas team boss Ayao Komatsu has shared how the operation were losing out through “big communication issues” when he stepped into the role, with his priority being to get their factories working together more efficiently.

Matthew Potts hits an unbeaten 149 as Durham earn a draw with Warwickshire in County Championship Division One.

The unique look showcases onsemi, the primary partner for the No. 6 entry for four races in 2024, beginning with the Grand Prix of Long Beach.A leading semiconductor manufacturer with a global supply chain, onsemi has been a partner with Arrow McLaren since November of 2022. The new livery features gray, papaya and black as its primary colors, incorporating a unique circuit board design to tie in ...Keep reading

After four podium-less seasons during which Haas scored just 52 points in total, team principal Guenther Steiner and technical director Simone Resta left the squad last winter.The former was replaced by ex-trackside engineering director Komatsu while the latter's position was taken over by Andrea de Zordo, who used to be the outfit's chief engineer.These decisions were made amid team founder and ...Keep reading

Vinales scored his first grand prix win since 2021 last Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas, having taken victory in the sprint and also qualified on pole.Previously leading from start to finish in the sprint, Vinales didn’t get the best of launches in the grand prix and was bumped down to 11th after contact at Turn 1.But he fought his way back through the field to take the lead on lap 13 of ...Keep reading

The reigning world champion squad has announced that it will field both of its part-time crews in the same event for the first time this season, on Portugal's gravel roads from 9-12 May.Two-time world champion Rovanpera and eight-time WRC title winner Ogier will pilot GR Yaris Rally1 cars alongside full-timers Elfyn Evans and Takamoto Katsuta.Toyota has so far opted to split the season between its ...Keep reading

McLaren started off 2024 in good shape, heading into the fifth round of the season as the third team in the pecking order, ahead of Mercedes.But while it remains a force on high-downforce circuits, the team admitted at the start of the year that its persistent low-speed weakness still hadn't been addressed yet.That weakness could come back to haunt it at some circuits more than others, with F1's ...Keep reading

Teams spend months and even years working on improving the designs of their cars to make them lighter and faster in the hopes of beating the competition. There are many obvious elements on an F1 car's bodywork, including the front wing and the side pods, which all work together to make the car more aerodynamic.However, there are several smaller features that can go unnoticed, especially during ...Keep reading

Maverick Vinales’ MotoGP career has so far run for 163 rounds since he made his debut with Suzuki in 2015. In that time he has taken 10 grand prix wins, which equates to a winning average of just 6.135% - or one per season, with the Spaniard now in his 10th in the premier class.His latest came last weekend at the Americas Grand Prix, in which he became the first rider in the modern MotoGP era to ...Keep reading

How would it feel to compete against a real-life Formula 1 driver? Well, F1 Fantasy is giving players the chance to do just that in this weekend’s ‘Shanghai Showdown' mini league.

Esteban Ocon has shared some insight into the intense rivalry he experienced with Max Verstappen as the pair worked their way toward the F1 grid – describing the early days of them racing together as “very fiery”.

After a five-year wait since the last Chinese Grand Prix it’s finally time to return to a circuit that has delivered some classic races in the past. And there’s been plenty happening off the track since Japan too that will provide plenty of talking points as the paddock arrives in Shanghai.

The Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar will race at a minimum weight of 1041kg, 34kg below the figure at which it competed in the WEC curtain-raiser in Qatar last month, and has had maximum power raised by 7kW (9bhp). Toyota’s GR010 HYBRID LMH has lost 29kg and gained 6kW in the table issued by the FIA WEC Committee. All nine models competing in the Hypercar class of the WEC will be lighter and run ...Keep reading

China last hosted an F1 race in 2019 until the COVID-19 pandemic derailed its grand prix.F1 now returns to the demanding Shanghai International Circuit after four seasons away, with teams facing several unknowns on how this generation of cars will perform there.On top of that, the circuit has since been resurfaced, meaning very little existing data is valid at the 5.4km track outside Shanghai and ...Keep reading

The two-time GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup title winner with Mercedes takes Habsburg’s seat in the French manufacturer’s #35 A424 LMDh alongside Charles Milesi and Paul-Loup in his role as official reserve for the Signatech-run Alpine Endurance Team.Habsburg has been ruled out for at least the second round of the 2024 WEC after sustaining two fractured vertebrae during an endurance ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton's decision to join Ferrari for next year means that Mercedes is on the hunt for a new team-mate for George Russell.And there are two different paths that the team can go down: hunting out the most experienced driver it can to help its push to the front, or throwing everything behind its rising junior star Andrea Kimi Antonelli to get him up to speed.On the experienced front, the ...Keep reading

Having read Autosport almost all my life, I’m chuffed to have been given a regular column in a magazine/website that I respect. I am sure that I will return to what I know best before too long – running race teams – but for the moment, while I recharge my metaphorical racing batteries, I plan to tell a few stories about my 40-odd years in the sport.I’m going to kick off with Carlos Sainz ...Keep reading

McRae, the son of 1995 British Rally Championship title-winner Alister and nephew of the late 1995 World Rally champion Colin, scored a first ERC victory of sorts for the famous McRae dynasty since Alister’s triumph in the 1996 Rally of Wales.Max, driving a Tagai Racing Technology-run Peugeot 208 Rally4 car, alongside co-driver Cameron Fair, won the Junior ERC class by a margin of 1m40.6s from ...Keep reading

After battling with Marc Marquez, Pedro Acosta and Jorge Martin early on for the race lead, factory Ducati rider Bagnaia slipped to fifth place at the chequered flag, finishing over seven seconds behind race winner Maverick Vinales.Not only did Bagnaia lack the pace to stay with Aprilia's Vinales and second-placed Acosta on the KTM in the second half of the 20-lap contest, he also could not put ...Keep reading

Throughout his career we have seen plenty of ideas for his ultimate F1 machine – which famously included his Red Bull X2010 created for Gran Turismo. It was a 1400bhp fan car that smashed the track record at Suzuka by 20 seconds during simulator runs.But delivering the perfect F1 car is not just about having the ultimate cars, because a grid full of X2010s would probably not deliver brilliant ...Keep reading