Daniel Lloyd

3 weeks ago | racecar-engineering.com | Daniel Lloyd

Sauber has brought several updates to the C45 during the opening third of the 2025 Formula 1 season. The most recent of those came at round nine in Spain, where Nico Hülkenberg finished fifth to give Sauber its best result in three years. Its last top five came courtesy of Valtteri Bottas at the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix when the team was known as Alfa-Romeo.

3 weeks ago | racecar-engineering.com | Daniel Lloyd

Michelin has revealed its next-generation Hypercar which will be used by all cars in the top classes of the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA Sportscar Championship from 2026. Notably, the French supplier has increased the amount of renewable materials in the tyre from around one-third to 50 per cent. This increase forms part of Michelin’s overarching company aim of developing a 100 per cent sustainable tyre by 2050.

3 weeks ago | racecar-engineering.com | Daniel Lloyd

Formula 1 engineering teams are highly sophisticated operations consisting of hundreds of people working in different departments. At the top of these intricate structures sits a person, or multiple people, whose role is to ensure all those departments are pulling together. They will liaise with the team principal, who is like a CEO, holding an overarching view of the team’s technical and commercial activities, as well as media duties.

3 weeks ago | racecar-engineering.com | Daniel Lloyd

Pirelli has announced its tyre compound choices for every Formula 1 grand prix until the of of July, and there is one selection in particular which has garnered attention. The convention is for F1’s spec tyre supplier to pick three compounds – a soft, medium and hard – from its six-compound range that are sequential in order of hardness. For example, at last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, Pirelli brought the C1 (hard), C2 (medium) and C3 (soft).

4 weeks ago | racecar-engineering.com | Daniel Lloyd

Formula 1 teams ran steel-based skid blocks in practice for the Spanish Grand Prix as part of an FIA ‘experiment’ to investigate ways of preventing trackside grass fires that occurred earlier in the season. Multiple red flags during practice for the Japanese GP were attributed to fires at the side of the track, triggered by sparks flying off the cars as their skid blocks hit the ground and exacerbated by dry weather.