The announcement that Flavio Briatore assumed team principal responsibilities at Alpine following the unexpected resignation of Oli Oakes superficially marks the completion of his return to the forefront of Formula 1. The reality is, he was never really gone even amid the fallout of the revelation that Nelson Piquet Jr...

Veteran motorsport technical figure Pat Symonds will join Andretti-Cadillac as Executive Engineering Consultant as the team continues its push to join the Formula 1 grid.Symonds, who most recently served as Chief Technical Officer for Formula 1, will officially join the team at its new Silverstone base upon the completion of...

Brian Redman’s Targa Sixty Six Club descended on Palm Beach International Raceway February 21-23 for its 29th consecutive year of this popular motorsport gathering.Targa is a place for motorsport enthusiasts to mingle, swap stories and stretch their legs and those of their cars before the 2020 season gets underway, with...

A "Keep Fighting Initiative" has been launched by the family of seven-time Formula 1 Michael Schumacher (pictured above in 2012), as a sign of gratitude to fans and to encourage people who have been inspired by Schumacher's career "to keep fighting and never give up."Schumacher suffered a traumatic brain injury...

Ross Brawn says in a forthcoming book that a lack of trust in the Mercedes hierarchy ultimately forced him to quit the Formula 1 outfit.Brawn sold his 2009 championship-winning team to Mercedes, which kept him on as team principal. Toto Wolff (at right with Brawn, above) and Niki Lauda were...

For five glorious seasons, Scuderia Ferrari and Michael Schumacher were imperious in their domination of Formula 1. But like all empires, rise is inevitably followed by decline....Within a few hours of arriving at Maranello in 1973, Niki Lauda was asking himself why the hell Ferrari didn’t win every grand prix,...

A strange era for a particularly chameleonic Formula 1 team ends on Wednesday, when what has been Lotus officially becomes Renault again at a launch in Paris.Returning to its 2002-'09 identity as Renault's UK-based factory squad is just the latest chapter of the ever-evolving story of 'Team Enstone,' which was...

The Manor Formula 1 team has appointed former Ferrari chief designer Nikolas Tombazis as its chief aerodynamicist with immediate effect.Tombazis spent nine years as Ferrari's chief designer before it was announced in December 2014 he was leaving the team amid a restructure of the F1 outfit. The 47-year-old, who will...

Former Formula 1 racer and two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Alex Wurz has announced his retirement from motorsport.The 41-year-old Austrian, who currently races for Toyota in LMP1, will end his career with the World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain later this month."There a couple of reasons for retirement," Wurz...

Willem Toet is no longer working for Sauber having been placed on gardening leave, team principal Monisha Kaltenborn has said.Toet was in his second stint as head of aerodynamics, having held the position from 2006 to 2009 during the period when the squad was BMW-owned. He left the squad after...