RB team principal Laurent Mekies is confident there is even more to come from Yuki Tsunoda after extending his contract through the 2025 season.Tsunoda has been one of the standout performers of the 2024 season so far, scoring points in five of the nine races this year and generally getting...

Usually at this time of year, Franz Tost would be setting some tough – impossible, even – targets for Red Bull’s second Formula 1 team. Instead, he’s enjoying the early days of his retirement, having stepped down as team principal of what was called AlphaTauri at the end of last...

AlphaTauri drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda have paid tribute to team principal Franz Tost ahead of his final race at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this weekend.Tost is being replaced as team principal by Laurent Mekies -- joining from Ferrari -- while AlphaTauri also has a new CEO in...

Franz Tost says AlphaTauri was forced to announce its acquisition of Laurent Mekies earlier than anticipated because the news had begun to leak in the Italian media.AlphaTauri issued a press release on the eve of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend announcing that Tost would step down as team principal at...

Ferrari sporting director Laurent Mekies (main image) will replace Franz Tost as AlphaTauri team principal at the end of this season as part of a management overhaul.Tost has held the position since 2005 when the Toro Rosso team was established, and has overseen two home victories at Monza – with...

AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost has held meetings with Red Bull senior management that led to him being reassured the team will not be sold.Reports in German media during pre-season testing claimed the Red Bull shareholders were unhappy about the return from AlphaTauri after it finished ninth in the constructors’...

AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost admits Nyck de Vries was not being lined up for a 2023 seat until the FIA decided not to give Colton Herta a Super License.Herta was being courted by Red Bull as a replacement for Pierre Gasly if it let the Frenchman join Alpine, and...

This time last year, Charles Leclerc found himself in the middle of a storm. It was the week between the two races in Austria that belatedly opened the 2020 season, and he’dgone back to Monaco to celebrate a friend’s birthday.Leclerc was pictured posing with four other people, arm-in-arm, smiling. How...

The Formula 1 calendar has reached its “saturation point” of 21 races and should not expand further, according to Red Bull team principal Christian Horner.This season matches the record number of grands prix in a season, and the 2019 calendar sees the same number of races. Vietnam and Miami are...

Brendon Hartley is confident in the work he is doing for Toro Rosso despite the team’s approach to McLaren to replace him with Lando Norris.Red Bull contacted McLaren to see if it could take on the Formula 2 championship leader from the Austrian Grand Prix onwards, with Hartley having scored...