Valentin Kluss, Germany’s best karting prospect: ‘I will try to win ADAC F4 next year’

Motorsport in Germany has entered a deep malaise in the past few years. Having gone from regularly producing world-class talents, with the country fielding a total of seven drivers in Formula One just a decade ago, there’s now just a scarce number of talents on the road to F1. But hope isn’t lost, as 14-year-old karting star Valentin Kluss will make his first strides in … Continue reading Valentin Kluss, Germany’s best karting prospect: ‘I will try to win ADAC F4 next year’

The 2022 Red Bull Junior Team: here’s what we expect

The Red Bull Junior Team is the most successful F1 junior team around, having brought Grand Prix winners and world champions like Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo, Pierre Gasly and Max Verstappen to the pinnacle of motorsport. This year, twelve drivers from go-karting to Formula 2 will receive support from Red Bull. Could one (or two) of these drivers step up to AlphaTauri in 2023? By … Continue reading The 2022 Red Bull Junior Team: here’s what we expect

So, who is sim-racer turned F2 driver Cem Bolukbasi?

The lines between reality and simulation are blurring more and more as we tick off the years in this 21st century, and one field where this is becoming more obvious is motorsport. With the news that 23-year-old Turkish sim racing-turned-real racing star Cem Bölükbasi will be of Charouz Racing System’s FIA Formula 2 drivers for 2022, it’s clearly laying down the marker that being fast … Continue reading So, who is sim-racer turned F2 driver Cem Bolukbasi?

Here’s how the Red Bull Junior Team did in 2021

With hundreds of drivers competing in feeder series all over the world, your chances of getting to Formula 1 are slim. If you manage to join the academy of a Formula 1 team though, they increase tenfold. That is, if you perform. In this series we take a look at how the members of F1 academies have performed in 2021. Today: the Red Bull Junior … Continue reading Here’s how the Red Bull Junior Team did in 2021