Racing Bulls F1 rookie Isack Hadjar narrowly missed out on a Q3 appearance during his qualifying debut at the Australian GP. The young French driver claimed P11 on the grid, just shy of the top-10 shootout, but demonstrated impressive pace that suggests a promising future in the sport. Impressive debut under pressure The qualifying session…
The 2025 F1 season is getting off to a great start for Racing Bulls and Yuki Tsunoda at the Australian GP. The Japanese placed himself 5th on the grid for tomorrow’s race with a timing of 1:15.670 in Q3, only 0.574s slower compared to pole sitter McLaren’s Lando Norris, and faster than both Ferrari cars. …
Technical Director of Racing Bulls, Jody Egginton, has announced that he is joining Red Bull Advanced Technologies as its Engineering Director. Following a stint spanning over a decade with the Faenza-based team, the British engineer will embark upon his new non-F1 role on April 1, 2025. As Racing Bulls find themselves without a Technical Director…
Japanese driver Yuki Tsunoda impressed in 2024, and he is 11th in our F1 Driver Rankings. Puts Ricciardo in the shade early doors At the start of the campaign, Tsunoda was rapid in qualifying and took advantage of when the RB was at its best. He led the qualifying head-to-head 7-1 a third of the…
Liam Lawson again stepped in at Racing Bulls halfway through the season to replace Daniel Ricciardo, but this time it was a definitive swap. However, his performance level was a little more underwhelming compared to his stint at AlphaTauri (Racing Bull’s predecessor). This means Lawson scores just 15th place in Pit Debrief‘s 2024 F1 Driver…
It was a point-less weekend for Racing Bulls, with both Lawson and Tsunoda ending the Qatar GP out of the top ten. Liam Lawson was involved in an early incident with Valtteri Bottas, earning himself a ten second time penalty which severely affected the rest of his Sunday. He spun at turn 1, making contact…
It’s been 3 weeks since the last Formula One race, and the last time we saw Yuki Tsunoda on track he had finished the São Paulo Grand Prix in P7 ahead of the Las Vegas GP. Unfortunately for the Visa CashApp RB driver, practice was incredibly difficult as the team lacked pace and suffered with…
The Singapore Grand Prix was the final Formula 1 race, Daniel Ricciardo participated in, and RB CEO Peter Bayer revealed that the team agreed with the Australian to not communicate his departure. Ricciardo raced in 257 grands prix in his career and won eight of them. His early departure from RB left the F1 world…
For its 75-anniversary season, Formula 1 has announced an unprecedented season launch event that will feature all 10 teams, 20 drivers, and the team principals. This unique event will take place on February 18th, 2025, at London’s The O2 ahead of pre-season testing in Bahrain. Brian Burke of BrianBurkeCreative, who also oversaw the opening and…
RB had their strongest qualifying of the season in São Paulo, with Liam Lawson securing 5th while Yuki Tsunoda achieved a sensational career-best 3rd, lining up alongside polesitter Lando Norris and second-placed George Russell. Hopes were high for Tsunoda to convert this result into a potential career-first podium, especially as he held his position in…
