James O'Connor

Steve Hallam reflects on working with “good guy” and “brilliant” F1 driver Kimi Räikkönen
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Exclusive: Steve Hallam reflects on working with “good guy” and “brilliant” F1 driver Kimi Räikkönen

In the second part of Pit Debrief‘s exclusive interview with Steve Hallam, we spoke to the British engineer about working with 2007 F1 World Champion Kimi Räikkönen. Although the 21-time Grand Prix winner won his World Championship with Scuderia Ferrari, many would say the best period of his career came at McLaren. Räikkönen was lightning…

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Williams Racing F1 agree multi-year deal with Atlassian. Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon pose for a photo.
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Williams Racing F1 agree multi-year deal with Atlassian

Williams Racing F1 team has confirmed a historic agreement with Atlassian. They are an American-domiciled Australian software company that specializes in collaboration tools designed primarily for software development and project management. Since the departure of ROKiT at the end of 2019, the Grove-based team has not had a title sponsor as they really struggled to…

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Technical director Peter Prodromou agrees new deal with McLaren F1
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Technical director Peter Prodromou agrees new deal with McLaren F1

McLaren F1 has confirmed their technical director of aerodynamics Peter Prodromou has agreed a new multi-year contract with the Woking-based squad. The team continues to have strong stability in the process. He replaced James Key in that position when changes were made by McLaren following a terrible start to the 2023 campaign. Prodromou has been…

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Steve Hallam has spoken to Pit Debrief about Lewis Hamilton, the astonishing 2008 F1 Brazilian GP ending in his final race in the sport and at McLaren, and the incredible 2007 season involving the Brit and Fernando Alonso.
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Exclusive: Hallam hopes Hamilton gets eighth F1 title after “disgraceful” ending at 2021 Abu Dhabi GP

In the first part of an exclusive interview with Pit Debrief, former F1 engineer Steve Hallam discussed his time with Lewis Hamilton at McLaren, and his hopes the Ferrari driver will make it eight Drivers’ Championships at the Scuderia. At the 2021 F1 Abu Dhabi GP, the now 105-time race winner looked set to win…

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Alex Dunne will be taking to the wheel of a Rodin Motorsport car for the 2025 F2 season.
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Alex Dunne joins Rodin Motorsport for 2025 F2 season

Irish and McLaren development driver Alex Dunne has been confirmed by Rodin Motorsport to drive for them in the 2025 F2 season. He will be driving alongside Australian Christian Mansell. The driver from Offaly made an immediate impact after moving up to single-seaters in 2021. He took pole position at Spa-Francorchamps in Spanish F4, although…

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Zhou Guanyu and Antonio Giovinazzi will be the reserve drivers for Ferrari F1 in the 2025 season.
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Zhou and Giovinazzi to share Ferrari F1 reserve driver duties in 2025

Ferrari F1 has confirmed that Zhou Guanyu and Antonio Giovinazzi will share reserve driver duties once the season commences at Albert Park in Melbourne next month. He admitted towards the end of last season that a Ferrari reserve role was a possibility as Sauber completely changed their line-up. The history for Zhou Guanyu at Ferrari…

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