F1 Season Preview

F1 Previews

• Formula1.com: 2023 Season Preview
• Motorsport.com: Everything we know about F1 2023
• Sky Sports: Key Questions Ahead of Bahrain GP
• Racecar Engineering: F1 2023 Performance Insights

Driver Changes

• Aston Martin had an opening when Sebastian Vettel retired at the end of 2022.
• Aston Martin signed Fernando Alonso when he did not get the multi-year contract he wanted from Alpine.
• Alpine signed Pierre Gasly, moving from AlphaTauri.
• AlphaTauri signed rookie Nyck de Vries, who has one F1 race under his belt, scoring a P9 for Williams last year.
• McLaren dropped Daniel Ricciardo and signed rookie Oscar Piastri. Ricciardo is no longer on the grid but is now the reserve driver for Red Bull.
• Haas dropped Mick Schumacher and signed veteran Nico Hülkenberg, who was last on the grid full-time in 2019.
• Williams dropped Nicholas Latifi and signed rookie Logan Sargeant, the first American in F1 since Alexander Rossi.
• Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes, and Alfa Romeo maintained their 2022 lineups.

After the 2023 British Grand Prix, AlphaTauri fired Nyck de Vries and "borrowed" Daniel Ricciardo from Red Bull for the rest of the season. The purpose of this was to evaluate both Daniel Ricciardo's and Yuki Tsunoda's futures with Red Bull. But in his third race in the Netherlands, Ricciardo broke a bone in his hand during practice when he crashed avoiding a stricken car on the track. Red Bull reserve driver Liam Lawson was then drafted to drive the 2nd AlphaTauri until Ricciardo returned. Lawson was able to race in five grands prix, scoring 2 pts, before Ricciardo returned to finish the last five races of the season.

 

F1 Season Review

F1 Mid-Season Review

• Racer.com: The 2023 Formula 1 Mid-season Review

F1 Season Review

• The Sunday Times - Driving: Formula One 2023 Season Review

 

F1 2023 Results
No	Event	Pole	Winner	2nd	3rd
1	Bahrain	Verstappen	Verstappen	Pérez	Alonso
2	Saudi Arabia	Pérez	Pérez	Verstappen	Alonso
3	Australia	Verstappen	Verstappen	Hamilton	Alonso
4	Azerbaijan	Leclerc	Pérez	Verstappen	Leclerc
5	Miami	Pérez	Verstappen	Pérez	Alonso
6	Emilia Romagna	This Grand Prix was cancelled due to severe flooding.
7	Monaco	Verstappen	Verstappen	Alonso	Ocon
8	Spain	Verstappen	Verstappen	Hamilton	Russell
9	Canada	Verstappen	Verstappen	Alonso	Hamilton
10	Austria	Verstappen	Verstappen	Leclerc	Pérez
11	Britain	Verstappen	Verstappen	Norris	Hamilton
12	Hungary	Hamilton	Verstappen	Norris	Pérez
13	Belgium	Leclerc1	Verstappen	Pérez	Leclerc
14	Netherlands	Verstappen	Verstappen	Alonso	Gasly
15	Italy	Sainz	Verstappen	Pérez	Sainz
16	Singapore	Sainz	Sainz	Norris	Hamilton
17	Japan	Verstappen	Verstappen	Norris	Piastri
18	Qatr	Verstappen	Verstappen	Piastri	Norris
19	United States	Leclerc	Verstappen	Norris	Sainz
20	Mexico	Leclerc	Verstappen	Hamilton	Leclerc
21	Brazil	Verstappen	Verstappen	Norris	Alonso
22	Las Vegas	Leclerc	Verstappen	Leclerc	Pérez
23	Abu Dhabi	Verstappen	Verstappen	Leclerc	Russell
1 Leclerc was on pole after Verstappen was penalised 5 grid places for use of additional gearbox elements.