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Gene Haas assures team is not for sale
The unexpected departure of Gunther Steiner from Haas F1 Team caught everyone by surprise and coming immediately after it was revealed Simone Resta had also left the American team, vaccating the position of Technical Director, indicates quite a lot was going on under the surface in Gene Haas’ team.
Top Ten of 2023 - Third - Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton
F1 takes the football approach to lack of results
Mike Krack is now the third longest serving Formula 1 Team Principal! Now, that’s a sentence that makes you go back and read again, but you read it right, the Aston Martin man has now moved into that position following the sensational departure of Gunther Steiner from the role he fulfilled at Haas F1 Team since its creation.JANUARY 11, 2024
Simone Resta leaves Haas
In a surprise move, the highly rated Simone Resta has decided to leave his position as Technical Director of Haas, just one monthe before the launch of this year’s VF-24. Resta had been leading the technical department the American team put together in Maranello, with 80 other engineers that moved from Ferrari, and a few dozen others that had previously been with other teams, at the start of 2021 but has now opted to leave at the end of what was a very disappointing season for Haas.
Marko to stay put until the end of 2026
Helmut Marko will remain with Red Bull until the end of 2026, after signing a new two-years deal with the company’s new managament. The veteran Austrian’s current contract, still signed with his old friend Dietrich Mateschitz, expires at the end of this year and with the billionaire gone there were indications Marko wouldn’t have his deal renewed by Oliver Mintzlaff, the man who’s now in charge of running the company’s sporting programs.
Sprint race format still under discussion
With just seven weeks to go before the start of the 2024 Formula 1 World Championship, there’s yet to be a consensus on the format that will be used in the six sprint events that will be part of this year’s season, with the promoters of those Grand Prix unable to set their own schedules and, of course, let the fans know the sequence of sessions before they make their final decision about buying tickets and for what days.
Top Ten of 2023 - Fourth - Charles Leclerc
Charles LeclercJANUARY 10, 2024
Steiner departs, Komatsu new principal
Haas F1 Team has announced that Guenther Steiner has left the team, after having been Team Principal since the team's inception. In his place Ayao Komatsu has been appointed new team principal, being promoted from his role as Director of Engineering.
Mercedes shuts customer engine route
The announcement Mercedes will continue to supply Power Units to Williams until the end of 2030 has shut the door for other manufacturers to try and get costumers for their own products from the start of 2026. With McLaren already committed to keep working with the German manufacturer until the end of the next cycle of technical regulations, only Haas has yet to confirm which Power Units it will be using after the end of 2025, but given the very close links the American team has with Ferrari – to the extent it has placed its own design group in a building adjacent to the Scuderia’s factory! – there’s little doubt this relationship will carry on beyond the end of the current deal.
Monza goes back to gravel run-off areas
The 21 million Euros investment the Italian government, the Lombardia region and the ACI are making on the modernization of the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza is mainly aimed at bringing the infrastructure up to the most recent Formula 1 standards, especially in the topic of providing a better experience for the paying fans, but will also focus on improving the racing conditions, as the changes made to the cars in the last change of regulations made this high-speed track less of a challenge than it was before.
Ben Sulayem claims "I know who attacks me"
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has claimed he knows “who attacks me”, in a recent interview with German publication Motorsport-Magazin, explaining that, “the paddock is a very small habitat, everybody knows everybody," he added. "You know, whoever leaked or made up something about me, I know. And what do I do? I smile at them. I know who is behind it and then I smile at them. I only ask for sincerity. I am not interested in the share price or ticket sales. We just need honesty. That is my mission."
Monza kicks off decisive upgrade work
Almost four months after initially scheduled, the much needed upgrade of the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza has started on Monday, being kicked off in a lengthy ceremony presided by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, with the Automobilie Club d’Italia president, Angelo Sticchi Damiani, as master of ceremonies.
Goss extends FIA's talent exodus
Highly experienced Formula 1 man Tim Goss has left the FIA at the start of this year, extending the talent exodus that has been hitting the Federation’s sporting department, just weeks after Steve Nielsen gave his notice and will leave his role as Sporting Director at the end of this month. Goss has now left his position as Single-seater Technical Director and is believed to be on the verge of returning to the competitive side of Grand Prix racing, joining one of the Formula 1 teams in the next couple of weeks.
Marko confirms RB20's failed crash test
Red Bull’s advisor Helmut Marko has confirmed the first monocoque of the new RB20 failed the FIA-mandatory frontal crash test as we wrote last week. While the team is always tremendously protective of all its internal information and almost never reacts to media reports, the 80-years old Austrian seems unable to resist commenting on every single detail and has now confirmed to a German website this story.
Top Ten of 2023 - Fifth - Lando Norris
Lando NorrisJANUARY 9, 2024
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Ferrari appoints Jock Clear as head of driver academy
There has been a change of guard at the Ferrari Driver Academy, with the departure of Marco Matassa, who had been leading the young drivers’ program since the start of 2018, the Italian expected to return to his previous team, Faenza-based AlphaTauri – racing under a new name this year – with his position in Maranello being taken over by the highly experienced Jock Clear.