How McLaren’s rear wing push changed the game in F1 McLaren surpassed even its own pre-season expectations in 2024, taking its first Formula 1 constructors’ championship title for 26 years. Autosport · Dec 20, 2024
Binotto on Audi's F1 reality check: Finding team "frozen" with no points, no plans When former Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto accepted the calling to head up Audi's Formula 1 operations earlier this year, he knew it was going to be a tough task. Motorsport · Dec 20, 2024
Who is Racing Bulls' new F1 driver Isack Hadjar? Having been signed by Racing Bulls for the 2025 Formula 1 season, Isack Hadjar had very much been in and out of the conversation as speculation surrounding Sergio Perez’s Red Bull future mounted. With Liam Lawson always viewed as the most likely candidate to step up and replace the Mexican after… Motorsport · Dec 20, 2024
Binotto on Audi's F1 reality check after finding team "frozen" with no plans When former Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto accepted the call to head up Audi's Formula 1 operations earlier this year, he knew it was going to be a tough task. Autosport · Dec 20, 2024
NASCAR's rising stars to watch in 2025 Just like any other sport, tomorrow's champion is always waiting in the wings and in the pinnacle of stock car racing, the final two steps before the big show are the NASCAR Truck and NASCAR Xfinity Series. Motorsport · Dec 19, 2024
Why F1 must find a solution to its wasted tyres problem While Formula 1 continues to make good gains in improving its sustainability, one of the most obvious areas of wastage clearly still needs addressing. Autosport · Dec 19, 2024
Why Formula 1 must find a solution to its wasted tyres problem While Formula 1 continues to make good gains in improving its sustainability, one of the most obvious areas of wastage clearly still needs addressing. Motorsport · Dec 19, 2024
Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #50 Antonio Felix da Costa Across five Formula E races in the second half of the 2024 season, Antonio Felix da Costa took four wins spanning Berlin, Shanghai and Portland – where he doubled up. Autosport · Dec 19, 2024
Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #42 Oliver Rowland Oliver Rowland became a genuine title challenger, Formula E’s dark horse of 2024, upon returning to the grid and rejoining Nissan. Autosport · Dec 19, 2024
Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #34 Ryan Blaney He was agonisingly close to becoming the first driver to win back-to-back titles in NASCAR's knockout format, but there was still plenty to be proud of for Ryan Blaney in 2024. Autosport · Dec 19, 2024
Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #31 Sebastien Ogier Such was his speed, Sebastien Ogier was persuaded by Toyota to extend his partial campaign to an eventual 10 rounds. Autosport · Dec 19, 2024
Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #24 Renger van der Zande Fifteen years have passed since the Dutchman was a thorn in the side of Nico Hulkenberg and Daniel Ricciardo in Formula 3, yet Renger van der Zande still performs on a high level and was arguably the year’s outstanding IMSA SportsCar driver. Autosport · Dec 19, 2024
Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #23 Nico Hulkenberg Nico Hulkenberg led the line admirably for Haas as the American team stepped up its performance for 2024. Autosport · Dec 19, 2024
Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #21 Pierre Gasly Alpine’s struggles with an overweight and undercooked car at the start of 2024 hurt Pierre Gasly but, when the A524 started to improve, the Frenchman shone. Autosport · Dec 19, 2024
Autosport · Dec 19, 2024 Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #11 George Russell Qualifying was where George Russell gained an important edge at Mercedes in 2024, which he put down to his confidence rising in situations where the pressure is on. He ended up with a small but still significant 0.148s advantage over a driver with 104 F1 poles in Lewis Hamilton.
Autosport · Dec 19, 2024 Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #5 Scott McLaughlin Had it not been for Team Penske’s push-to-pass scandal that rocked the IndyCar Series and negated a third-place finish in the St Petersburg season-opener, Scott McLaughlin could very well have been crowned champion. The 31-year-old New Zealand native was a force in 2024, with a season that elevated him to…
Autosport · Dec 19, 2024 Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #4 Alex Palou He didn’t produce the same level of dominance as last year, but the end result was the same: Alex Palou hoisted the Astor Cup Trophy for a third time in 2024.
Autosport · Dec 19, 2024 Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #3 Lando Norris Undoubtedly, his best Formula 1 season to date – with the statistics proving so. In 2024, Lando Norris finished as championship runner-up (his previous best finishing position was sixth in 2021 and 2023), he took four wins in breaking his GP victory duck (along with a sprint win too) and…
Autosport · Dec 19, 2024 Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #2 Charles Leclerc If 2024 was a year when Ferrari made it clear exactly how much Charles Leclerc means to the team – signing him to a new contract and leaving Carlos Sainz exposed when Lewis Hamilton became available – then he too showed how much the Prancing Horse means to him.
Autosport · Dec 19, 2024 Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #1 Max Verstappen “A Schrodinger’s season for Max Verstappen. Concurrently his best and not his best.” That’s how we’ve described the world champion’s campaign in our Formula 1 driver rankings. And that’s because there are two ways of looking at Verstappen’s performance over the past months.
Motorsport · Dec 19, 2024 Red Bull's Lawson pick makes its Ricciardo experiment a waste of time Let's recap the saga of Red Bull's second seat alongside Max Verstappen, shall we? It's a saga that, by all accounts, is gratuitously long and ends in a resolution that would be entirely predictable for a team with a 'normal' approach to the driver market.
Motorsport · Dec 19, 2024 Are there enough reasons to justify Lawson's Red Bull deal? It's somewhat explainable how Red Bull ended up here. You don't necessarily have to agree that Christian Horner and Helmut Marko have made all the right decisions regarding their team's driver line-up over the past year and a half, but you can still find some logic in how they came…
Autosport · Dec 19, 2024 A hope and a prayer: Are there enough reasons to justify Lawson's Red Bull deal? It's somewhat explainable how Red Bull ended up here. You don't necessarily have to agree that Christian Horner and Helmut Marko have made all the right decisions regarding their team's driver line-up over the past year and a half, but you can still find some logic in how they came…
Autosport · Dec 18, 2024 The 10 F1 2024 moments that cost Perez his Red Bull drive Sergio Perez’s Red Bull career haul now ends at five wins, three poles and 932 points. That he only added to the last of those three categories in the 2024 Formula 1 season is one of three key reasons why he’s finally been cast off as Max Verstappen’s team-mate.
Autosport · Dec 18, 2024 Daly returns to IndyCar full time for 2025 with Juncos Hollinger Racing Is Conor Daly the mercenary who finally found a home?“The nomad that finally got a place to take residence,” was his response to Autosport in an exclusive sit down roughly an hour before the announcement that he would be returning to IndCar with Juncos Hollinger Racing for 2025. The native Hoosier…