The introduction of standard gearboxes to Formula 1 is “not off the table” for the future as teams have started to come around to the idea, according to the sport’s chief technical officer, Pat Symonds.
Formula 1 chief technical officer Pat Symonds has conceded the aerodynamic rule changes for the 2019 season failed to have meaningful change, adding that with hindsight he “wouldn’t have done them”.
Formula 1 technical director Pat Symonds feels simulation is helping the sport’s bosses get away from the “bad old days” of making “knee-jerk” rule changes without proper trials and evidence.
Formula 1 is using the world's first overtaking simulations to help design future circuits and encourage a better quality of racing, according to Pat Symonds.
Ex-Williams Formula 1 technical chief Pat Symonds does not expect the sport’s new aerodynamic changes to have a “transformational” impact on the quality of racing in 2019.
Former Williams F1 chief engineer Mike Coughlan has been appointed technical director for the Richard Childress Racing team in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
While even founder Sir Frank Williams had to admit that the company he founded wasn't having the best of years in F1 terms, it turns out they're still doing rather well in business.
Hired as a technical consultant to help guide Marussia F1 through the post-Nick Wirth era, former Renault engineering chief Pat Symonds casts his eye of the first half of the 2012 season.
In the wake of its abject start to the F1 2011 World Championship campaign, Virgin Racing has announced that it has parted company with technical director Nick Wirth to 'take greater control of its own destiny'
Renault F1 has agreed to pay 'substantial damages' to Nelsinho Piquet and his father for having defamed the pair in accusing them of making 'false allegations' about the infamous 'Singapore-gate' race-fixing scandal
Having left F1 with his tail between his legs in the wake of the 'Singapore-gate' race-fixing scandal, Nelsinho Piquet admits countryman Felipe Massa has still not forgiven him for the incident the Ferrari star believes cost him the 2008 world championship crown
Having proven unsuccessful in his endeavour to rejoin the grand prix grid with Serbian outfit Stefan GP this year, reports claim former F1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve is trying again for 2011 with his own team - and 'Singapore-gate' villains Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds...
Having been contacted by his former arch-nemesis and ex-FIA President Max Mosley on the birth of his first child, Flavio Briatore insists he has 'no place' for the man who tried to get him permanently banned from F1 over the explosive 'Singapore-gate' race-fixing scandal
F1 has a lot of tidying up to do if it is to re-establish its reputation after degenerating to such an extent that it is now 'worse than Eastenders' with its succession of high-profile, tabloid-fodder scandals - that is the opinion of Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner.
The identity of the hitherto mysterious 'Witness X' has been revealed by a British newspaper, with the fourth member of Renault F1 privy to the 'Singapore-gate' conspiracy widely held to have provided the vital evidence that earned Flavio Briatore a lifetime ban from all FIA-sanctioned motorsport
FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE L' AUTOMOBILE World Motor Sport Council Decision Re: 2008 Singapore Grand Prix - ING Renault F1 21 September 2009 Purpose of meeting
Disgraced former Renault F1 executive director of engineering Pat Symonds has revealed his 'eternal regret and shame' at the 'misguided devotion to my team' that has earned him a five-year ban over the 'Singapore-gate' race-fixing scandal - whilst continuing to insist that the idea was that of Ne
As the dust begins to settle from yesterday's bombshell that Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds have left their posts as respectively managing director and executive director of engineering at Renault F1 over the 'Singapore-gate' scandal, it is being debated whether the pair could now face criminal
With the fate of his former employers Renault hanging precariously in the balance, and Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds having seemingly left Formula 1 for good, Nelsinho Piquet has created a trail of destruction in his wake over the past few weeks - and made himself 'unemployable' into the bargai
British newspaper The Times has published the full transcript of the Renault F1 pit-to-car radio communication in the lead-up to and aftermath of Nelsinho Piquet's controversial accident in last year's Singapore Grand Prix. It makes for interesting reading...