Jan Lammers also watched as McLaren clinched the win at the first two Grand Prix weekends of the season. Red Bull Racing – especially in China – followed behind. Will Max Verstappen’s team be able to catch up to the papaya outift? For now, Lammers sees a big advantage for McLaren over Verstappen and the rest of their pursuers.
For Liam Lawson, the adventure at Red Bull Racing has been extremely short-lived. For two grands prix, the New Zealander was Max Verstappen’s teammate, but from the next race in Japan, Yuki Tsunoda will step into the RB21. It is a switch that Jan Lammers has mixed thoughts about.
Victor Martins did not have the 2024 season he was expecting. With Formula 2 introducing a brand new car for last year, many teams struggled to extrac the performance and balance necessary to fight at the front on a weekend to weekend basis, ART, the Frenchman’s team included. However, Martins looks confidently ahead to the 2025 F2 season and will settle for glory and nothing else.
AIX Racing’s Joshua Durksen took the F2 field by surprise last year. With a surprise last minute announcement, the Paraguayan born driver stormed through the field and sealed off his maiden F2 campaign with two wins and four podiums total, but this year, as he eyes a future F1 promotion, he sets his sights on a clear goal.
Valtteri Bottas is sidelined as Mercedes’ reserve driver in 2025, but revealed in an exclusive interview with GPblog that he still has the passion required to race in Formula 1. Should that fail though, the Finn will start looking at other racing series.
For the first time, Graeme Lowdon and Cadillac’s new F1 team spoke at length to the media about the ambitious project. Anyone who had listened to the team boss for a good hour could only conclude one thing: Cadillac is dead serious and is going for the very top spots in the sport.
With Sergio Perez being ousted from Red Bull Racing, and Franco Colapinto’s stint at Williams Racing comins to an end, there is now a shortage of Latin American drivers on the grid. Something Formula 3 junior, Santiago Ramos, is looking to change.
Tim Tramnitz is also one of the talents in the Red Bull Junior Team next season. So like no other, the German (20) can explain what it is like to work under Helmut Marko, the driving force behind the Austrian’s young talent development.
Arvid Lindblad will be the star of Formula 2 next season. If the British talent makes his debut in Formula 1 in exactly one year’s time, it should come as no surprise, that is how much confidence Red Bull Racing has in their pupil. Lindblad himself does not hide his ambitions: “I want to become world champion.”
It might be a coincidence or not, but since Flavio Briatore made his (re)-entrance at Alpine, the French team has found themselves on the way up. Will the advisor actually succeed in turning Alpine, which has been struggling for years, into a winning team? Guenther Steiner certainly believes in the approach of the Italian, who had successes with Benetton and Renault in the past.
