Michelin as been announced as official tyre supplier for the new FIA Formula E Championship – providing tyres for electric cars to compete in street circuit races across the world. Michelin, who withdrew from traditional F1 in 2006, will supply racing tyres for each car in the Formula E Championship which expects to include 20 […]

Formula One is on the way in less than a month! So what does 2013 hold for us? The start of the 2012 season was certainly an interesting battle with the championship battle all over the place. It looked like Alonso had the drivers’ championship under control by half-way through the season which was impressive […]

Jenson Button is now the number one driver at McLaren, and Sergio Perez is the team’s number two. Button is excited by the prospect of being the team’s number one driver and is looking forward to the 2013 season. Jenson Button is a very talented racing driver and for the last few years must have […]

Pirelli have certainly shaken up the strategies for all of the F1 teams since they have been sponsoring Formula 1. Pirelli tyres claim to have revolutionised their F1 tyres and are promising to bring all the teams back to a level playing field in 2013. So what does 2013 have in store for Pirelli tyres? Pirelli […]

It’s not too much longer until the new season of Formula 1 and 2013 is set to bring more exciting races and feature more pit stops. Changes to Pirelli’s tyres in the construction and the rubber compounds means that they will need to be changed more frequently. This will mean that drivers will need to […]

So the F1 season is over for another year. The Pirelli tyres used on the cars this year helped create a thrilling and certainly an unpredictable season. A whopping 23,500 were used throughout the duration of the year – 21,400 dry tyres and 2,100 wet tyres – thats an awful lot of rubber! Read on to […]

Pirelli have finally announced the Formula One tyre compounds that will be available for the Japanese, Korean and Indian races in October. The type of compound will affect the teams’ decisions in regards to race tactics, so it is important that they know what they can use ahead of time. For the race at the […]

Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery has recently expressed frustration that the Forumla One teams haven’t been entirely cooperative with the tyre manufacturer. He feels that the small operating window of this season’s tyres would have been easily avoided if the teams had allowed Pirelli the use of this year’s model of race vehicle rather than […]

The Williams Formula One team had an eventful day at the Spanish Grand Prix, what with Maldonado winning for the first time since 2004, Senna retiring after a crash with Schumacher, and then a fire breaking out in the Williams team garage after the race. Of course, for Williams team owner Frank Williams, the day […]

You may wonder what the big deal is about Pirelli’s Formula One tyres – surely it is easy for the teams and their drivers to learn how the tyres behave? Well, no. It really is much more complicated than that. Not only will the tyres behave differently in different conditions – hot, dry, wet, cold […]