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...

Registration is streaming in for the 2nd Annual Online Race Industry Week, Nov. 29-Dec. 3."Every time we announce a new speaker for Race Industry Week, we are flooded with racing professionals signing up to participate," said Judy Kean, co-founder of EPARTRADE. "We knew we had a fabulous panel of noted...

Formula 1’s work to improve racing with the 2021 regulations is 100 times more thorough than what it was able to do in 2019, according to the FIA’s Nikolas Tombazis.The FIA and F1 have been working together to try and design new car regulations that will allow for closer racing,...

Paddy Lowe has joined Williams in the role of Chief Technical Officer, in a move that has been described as a "game changer" by Claire Williams.Announcing the long-awaited move, Williams says the former Mercedes executive director "will take overall management responsibility for the engineering operation at Grove" while Lowe also...

McLaren team manager Dave Redding will move to Williams this year as part of management changes at both teams.Having originally worked for McLaren for two years before helping set-up Stewart Grand Prix in the late 1990s, Redding [pictured in 2010] returned to Woking in 2000 and has worked for the...

Paddy Lowe is closing in on a move to Williams following the announcement of his departure from Mercedes.Following weeks of speculation regarding Lowe's future, Mercedes confirmed on Jan. 10 that the executive director (technical) would be leaving the team. Lowe had been free to agree a move to another team...

Paddy Lowe has opted to leave his role as executive director (technical) at Mercedes ahead of an expected switch to Williams, according to multiple reports.The technical chief was first linked with a move to Williams at the end of 2016, with talks regarding his future at Mercedes being delayed until...

Felipe Massa has refused to confirm whether he has an agreement with Williams to return to the team if Valtteri Bottas were to leave.Williams has been keen to line up a replacement for Bottas since being approached by Mercedes last week, with the defending champions keen to hire to the...

One of the most surprising retirements in Formula 1 history could lead to another driver securing a record for F1's shortest retirement ever: RACER understands Williams has offered Felipe Massa a one-year deal return to the team in 2017, pending the anticipated departure of Valtteri Bottas from that team to...

Pat Symonds will leave his role as chief technical officer at Williams at the end of the year, paving the way for Paddy Lowe to join the team.Having joined Williams in 2013, Symonds was part of a resurgence at the team as it recovered from a slump in form to...