The reveal of the Alpine A523 on the evening of Thursday 16 February marked the conclusion of the traditional Formula 1 team presentations.

Here is an overview of the 2023 line-up before the start of pre-season testing in Bahrain from February 23-25, just 100 days before the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco (May 25-28).

Haas VF-23

The new car features a revised version with a dominant black colour scheme and white and red accents. The engine cover is now wider, suggesting that some of the radiators have been moved. Experienced drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen will have the tough task of speeding up the development of this 2023 Haas, with limited budgetary means.

Red-Bull RB19

The reigning World Champion car brings few design changes. The main announcement of the presentation was that Red Bull Racing will team up with engine manufacturer Ford from 2026 onwards. The two companies will jointly develop a new generation powertrain for the Red Bull and AlphaTauri cars, taking over from Honda (using a 350 kW electric motor and fully renewable fuels from 2026).

Williams FW45

The FW45 features an evolution of the blue-black colour scheme that came to the Williams in 2022. The nose of the car features a new design, similar to the geometry used by Haas and AlphaTauri last season. So it’s a mix of philosophies, taking on Red Bull and Ferrari type design elements, while the Williams team is striving for better aerodynamic performance.

Alfa Romeo C43 F1

The new Alfa Romeo is notably distinctive for its black colour, which has replaced the white on the car. In this livery, the team has focused on developing the aerodynamic concept of the 2022 car by revising the design of its rear suspension, which has led to the creation of a new cooling system and new body shapes.

AlphaTauri AT04

AlphaTauri unveiled its new colours and driver line-up (Nyck de Vries / Yuki Tsunoda) during an elegant presentation in New York. One of the main evolutions is aerodynamic with the raising of the floorboards – more rigid – in order to limit the harmful effects of “porpoising”. In terms of livery, the most obvious change is the appearance of the red of the team’s new sponsor, PKN Orlen, a transfer from Alfa Romeo.

Aston Martin AMR23

The Silverstone-based team has not made any major changes to its 2023 livery. The team indicates that its main areas of focus have been the front wing, side cradles, engine cover and roll cage entry. With the arrival of two-time Spanish World Champion Fernando Alonso, a staff that has doubled in size and a new factory under construction, Aston Martin F1 is showing its structural ambition, and will be looking to maintain the positive dynamic of the second half of the 2022 season.

McLaren MCL60

The new 2023 McLaren sports a side-cradle concept resembling Red Bull’s. The air intakes and underfloor barriers appear to have been revised, although the MCL60 appears to be essentially an iterative update on last year’s car.

Ferrari SF-23

A presentation worthy of its name for the new SF-23, under the eyes of thousands of tifosi in Fiorano. With the French Fréderic Vasseur at its helm now, Ferrari presents a predominantly matte red single-seater with a few exposed carbon fiber sections. Among the improvements, in particular, the suspension has been redesigned in order to increase the range of adjustments that can be made to the car on the track.

Mercedes AMG F1 W14 E-Performance

Mercedes’ latest creation marks a return to W14 and black – a colour already successfully used in 2020 and 2021 – after spending 2022 in their more traditional silver scheme. As for the design of the car proper, it follows the 2022 car’s philosophy, but with changes notably to the wings, floor and air inlets/outlets. Key elements to improve performance.

Alpine A523

Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon unveiled the 2023 version of the Alpine F1 car during a live presentation in London. The main modifications were made to the suspension, the position of the cooling system and finally the rear wing to improve its efficiency. There is no revolution in the livery. We find the traditional Alpine blue, mainly on the central part of the bodywork, with the pontoons in the colours of the title sponsor BWT. Like last season, the Franco-British team will start with a 100% pink livery for the first three rounds in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Australia.

The Official Ticketing for the 80^th Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco is now open. After the great vintage of 2022, which saw Sergio Perez triumph (Red Bull), the Automobile Club de Monaco invites you for a unique weekend from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th May 2023 in the Principality of Monaco.

You can already book your seats in the Grandstands or in our “Hospitality” areas on the dedicated website www.formula1monaco.com or directly at the Official Ticket Office of the Automobile Club de Monaco (44, rue Grimaldi – Monaco).

In 2023, 4 series will be on the programme for these 4 days of competition: Formula 1, Formula 2, Formula 3 – which marks its return in Monaco – and Porsche SuperCup.

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Formula 1 to race in Monaco until 2025 under new deal

Formula 1 will continue to race in Monaco until 2025 after a new three-year agreement was finalised between the Automobile Club of Monaco (ACM) and Formula One.

Created in 1929 and included in the Formula 1 World Championship calendar since its creation in 1950, the race offering a unique challenge for drivers and a backdrop that is famous around the world.

Monaco will stage the eighth round of the 24-race 2023 season, from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 of May.

Sergio Pérez (Red Bull) won the 79th Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix on Sunday, and the Mexican anthem resounded for the first time on the finish line, three hours after a start delayed by a huge storm. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) and Max Verstappen, in the other Red Bull, completed a podium all the more unexpected as Charles Leclerc, the local hero and big favorite, had his race wasted by a huge strategic error by Scuderia Ferrari. The Monegasque eventually took 4th place in this race which was promised to him.

Leclerc was in pole position on Sunday, shortly before 3:00 pm, after a deluge of stars on the starting grid. Then the sky darkened and the scenario for this glory day tipped into the unpredictable. The start was launched, more than an hour late, in slow motion behind the safety car. There were 75 laps to go and Leclerc was in the lead, on wet tyres, ahead of Sainz and the two Red Bulls, on a really wet track.

The first driver to switch to intermediate tires was Pierre Gasly, who had started at the back of the grid, and this choice initially paid off as the Frenchman moved up swiftly to 12th place. His example was followed immediately by Pérez, on lap 17. This was the turning point of the race because the Mexican got the right tires before his rivals. Leclerc imitated him, on the following lap, and the setbacks for the Scuderia began: three laps later, on lap 21, Sainz, who was in the lead, stopped in the Ferrari pit to put on slick tires, without ticking the intermediate tires box. But Ferrari, at the same time, asked Leclerc to do the same, despite having changed his tires three laps earlier.

The result was a traffic jam in front of the Ferrari garage, with a lot of time lost by Leclerc, and it was followed right away by an identical choice for the Red Bull drivers: slick tires on lap 22, to cover Ferrari’s strategy. The result appeared instantly. The Spaniard was 2nd, behind Pérez, and the Monegasque 4th, behind Verstappen, after the poor timing of this second stop. The order of the Top 4 never changed after this.

Then there was a miracle, when Mick Schumacher cut his Haas in half at the Swimming Pool. Schumi’s son came out unscathed but the red flag had to be waved, to give ACM marshals enough time to sweep away the debris and repair the TecPro barrier damaged by the American F1 car.

The last part of the race started at 5:15 p.m., for 45 minutes, without extra time, under the eyes of Zinédine Zidane and family. One of the numerous VIPs invited by the ACM, Alpine and other F1 teams, including Patrick Dempsey, Conor McGregor, Keylor Navas, James Foden, Ruben Dias, Mason Mount, LeBron James, GMK, but also Elon Musk, Khaby Lame, Jonathan Cohen, Squeezie, Naomi Campbell, Flavio Briatore, Claudio Capéo and Keith Harrington, among others.
This crazy race ended at 6:00 pm, in accordance with the 3-hour time limit written in the FIA regulations. It was Sergio Pérez’s third victory in F1, at the end of his 220th Grand Prix. He had already won in Bahrain in 2020, in a Racing Point, and Baku in 2021, in a Red Bull.

“Checo” immediately dedicated this win to Pedro Rodriguez, the legendary Mexican driver whose colors he wore on his helmet this weekend. Rodriguez won only twice in F1, in 1967 and 1970, and he finished 5th at Monaco Grand Prix in 1967. Pérez was not yet born. He is still 3rd in the World Championship, with 110 points, behind Max Verstappen (125) and Charles Leclerc (116). There are 15 more races this season, so everything is still possible, especially for Leclerc and Ferrari…

Dutchman Larry ten Voorde, the reigning champion in the Porsche Supercup, treated himself to a little health ride, on Sunday, in the streets of Monaco. Starting from pole position, he finished this half-hour race as the winner, just like last year, five seconds ahead of Dorian Boccolacci who kept German Laurin Heinrich until the chequered flag.

The Frenchman, 3rd in qualifying, had gained a place on the grid thanks to a penalty imposed on Briton Harry King. He made the most of it and managed to keep this 2nd place until the end, in order to climb on the spodium one step higher than last year.

Behind ten Voorde, Boccolacci and Heinrich, a nice fight pitted Luxembourg’s Dylan Pereira (4th), the winner at Imola last month, against King (5th) and another German, Michael Ammermüller (6th), the winner in Monaco in 2019. It was the most anticipated race of this historic season, that of the 30th anniversary of the Porsche Mobil1 Supercup. And it was won by the defending champion. No surprise.

Brazilian Felipe Drugovich, starting in pole position, won the Formula 2 Feature Race on Sunday after resisting during 42 laps to Théo Pourchaire who tried everything, but in vain, to overtake him. The gap between the two young drivers, who still lead the way in the general classification of the championship, varied between three tenths and one second, depending on the interventions of the Safety Car, but the French ART Grand Prix driver never had an opportunity to pass the leader of the MP Motorsport team.

Two drivers had stalled on the grid, Liam Lawson and Roy Nissany, and then started from the pits, without any hope of doing well in the race. At the front of the grid, Drugovich jumped into the lead, followed by Pourchaire, Jack Doohan and Juri Vips. Winner of the Sprint Race on Saturday, Dennis Hauger stopped first in the pits, to change tyres, then Doohan, the son of a former motorcycle world champion, was overtaken in the pits during his tire change, by Vips whose team of mechanics was faster.

There was a first appearance of the Safety Car, halfway through the race, after Cordeel touched the wall at the Antony-Noghès corner. The race started again for 20 laps, with Drugovich half a second ahead of Pourchaire, who had pitted at the same lap to change tyres. Then a  second exit of the red Mercedes was caused by another misfortune for Clément Novalak: the French rookie was pushed against the wall by Lawson at the exit of the Fairmont hairpin, 18 laps from the end.
After the restart, Drugovich remained very vigilant with Pourchaire in his mirrors, and Vips further behind. The places of honor were taken by Doohan, ahead of Enzo Fittipaldi, the grandson of Emerson, a double F1 world champion in the 70s, Marcus Armstrong , Dennis Hauger, winner of the Sprint Race on Saturday, and Jehan Daruvala, one of the major title contenders. Finally, there was a last small collision between Calan Williams and Ayumu Iwasa, who were fighting for 10th place, at the Fairmont Hairpin.

In the F2 championship, after ten rounds, Drugovich, the winner four times, is now 32 points ahead of Pourchaire, but the season is far from over.

Race 2 of the Formula Regional Europe by Alpine Championship (FRECA) opened Sunday in style and was won, as expected, by Swede Dino Beganovic. He started from pole position, lead all the way through and is now an even stronger leader at the top of the championship: 3 wins this season, and three second places, in six rounds. An almost perfect score for the talented member of the Ferrari Driver Academy.

Winner of Race 1 on Saturday, Frenchman Hadrien David had a good and steady race, after taking an excellent start, and he never gave Italian Gabriele Mini the slightest hope of overtaking him. Most of the single-seaters arrived safely, around thirty in total, and the first podium of the day concluded a race without surprise, on a dry track, as a few clouds were beginning to settle in the Monegasque sky. Laurens Van Hoepen was the fastest rookie. Dutch Driver, Laurens Van Hoepen, was also invited on the podium as the “fastest rookie of the day”.

French skier Arthur Bauchet, a treble gold medalist at the last Paralympic Games in Beijing, is a special guest this weekend at Monaco Grand Prix. The winner in downhill, slalom and super-combined, this winter in China, 21-year-old Bauchet also claimed a bronze medal in Giant Slalom and took 4th in Super-Giant. He runs in the “standing” category and suffers from spastic paraparesis, a genetic disease that causes tremors. Now based in Gap, in the Hautes-Alpes, to be closer to the ski slopes, Bauchet had already won four silver medals in Korea in 2018. Passionate about sport, he came with all his medals and posed for the photo at the headquarters of the ACM, which he visited upon his arrival. Then he spent Saturday in the race direction HQ, with a breathtaking view over the pits and the Swimming-Pool. An unforgettable day for the young champion, delighted to have discovered F1 in ideal conditions.

The Formula 2 Sprint Race, late Saturday afternoon (30 laps), was won by Norwegian Dennis Hauger (Prema Racing), ahead of Indian teammate Jehan Daruvala who took valuable points for the championship. Hauger took advantage of a major incident at the start, when poleman Jake Hughes stalled on the grid, instantly losing the benefit of his 10th place on Friday in qualifying and his pole position due to the reverse grid concept (for the top ten drivers in qualifying).

Hauger and Daruvala took the opportunity to jump into the lead, followed by Marcus Armstrong, Enzo Fittipaldi, Juri Vips, Frenchman Théo Pourchaire, the winner last year in the Principality, Jack Doohan and Liam Lawson, the sons of two world motorbike champions. While Felipe Drugovich (MP Motorsport), the championship leader, suffered a puncture and had to return to the pits, losing all chances of scoring points.

Another racing incident occurred when French rookie Clément Novalak was pushed into the safety barrier by a competitor, at La Rascasse. His car stalled and the race direction sent the Safety Car on track to slow down the pack. Then the race restarted but nothing changed in the standings.

Drugovich will have another chance on Sunday when he starts from pole position for the Feature Race, with Pourchaire by his side on the front row. This is scheduled at 9:50 am, for 42 laps or one hour maximum.

Charles Leclerc will start from pole position on Sunday at 3:00 pm, in his Ferrari, for the 79th Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, after emerging victorious from a perfectly managed qualifying session. He started it by posting a phenomenal time (1:11.376), in line with his faultless performance since Friday. And the session ended with a big blunder by Sergio Pérez, Max Verstappen’s lieutenant at Red Bull Racing.

This qualifying session, the most anticipated of the entire F1 season, began with Q1 interrupted two minutes from the end, when Yuki Tsunoda hit a safety barrier with his AlphaTauri: five drivers were then eliminated, namely China’s Guanyu Zhou (Alfa Romeo), both Canadians Nicholas Latifi (Williams) and Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), Thailand’s Alex Albon (Williams) and Frenchman Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri), who hoped better from this session but was trapped by the red flag.

There was another notable elimination in Q2, Australian Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren), accompanied in his misfortune by Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri), Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo) and both Haas drivers, Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher, five drivers grouped together in two tenths of a second. And four teams were to be doubly represented in Q3: Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes and Alpine, while McLaren could only count on Lando Norris and Aston Martin on Sebastian Vettel.

There were only 12 minutes of suspense left and the big crowd, in the grandstands and the VIP boxes, was not disappointed. Most of the spectators, in particular the Monegasques and Italians, were hoping for a pole position for Charles Leclerc. They were overwhelmed by a slightly unexpected 1-2 from the Scuderia, with the added bonus of an ideal scenario: by hitting the safety barrier just before the tunnel, on his own, in the last minutes of the session, Pérez prevented teammate Verstappen from finishing his ultimate attempt to beat Leclerc’s time.

So Leclerc kept his second pole in a row at Monaco Grand Prix, and the 14th of his career, with the added bonus of his great Dutch rival on the second row. It could hardly have turned out better for the Monegasque. The test of truth is still scheduled for Sunday at 3:00 pm. Leclerc will be the real favourite.