Max Verstappen’s victory in Monte Carlo, with Lewis Hamilton coming home seventh, has blown open the championship battle with the Dutchman moving to the top of the standings. And on a weekend where Red Bull got everything right, Mercedes had a more troubled time. Hamilton got stuck in traffic behind Pierre Gasly, and a failed […]
Mosley, who started his motorsport career as a driver in the European Formula Two championship in 1968, was one of the four founding members of March in 1969 along with Robin Herd, Alan Rees and Graham Coaker. Despite a meagre budget, it won races across the motorsport spectrum from Formula 1 to the Indianapolis 500. […]
The Italian outfit returned to its Maranello base on Monday morning to undertake a detailed investigation in to what happened to Leclerc before the start. The team had given Leclerc’s car and gearbox the all-clear in the hours before the race, but a left-rear driveshaft hub failed during a pre-race reconnaissance lap. With no time […]
After a year away due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Monaco made a welcome return to the Formula 1 calendar with a toned-down version of its usual festivities. The on-track spectacle met expectations as the race little offered in the way of major drama or exciting moments. But it could prove to be an important moment […]
After pole-sitter Charles Leclerc failed to start due to a driveshaft issue on his Ferrari, Verstappen was able to control the race from the front and record his first Monaco win, capitalising on a difficult day for title rival Lewis Hamilton. Traffic and strategy woes left Hamilton only seventh at the chequered flag, with further […]
Vettel fought through to score his first points of the season in Sunday’s race in Monte-Carlo, jumping both Gasly and Lewis Hamilton in the pitstops to grab fifth place. The Aston Martin driver came out of the pits side-by-side with Gasly up Beau Rivage before eventually getting the move completed at Massenet. Gasly explained after […]
Verstappen was able to move into the lead of the F1 drivers’ championship for the first time in his career on Sunday by dominating the Monaco Grand Prix, scoring his second win of the season. A difficult weekend for title rival Lewis Hamilton left the Mercedes driver seventh in the final classification, allowing Verstappen to […]
Hamilton endured a difficult Monaco Grand Prix weekend that saw him qualify seventh on Saturday, finishing almost three-quarters of a second off the pole position time. The race proved to be a struggle for Hamilton as a decision to pit early to try and get the undercut not only failed to get him past Pierre […]
On Saturday, Norris had qualified fifth, which became fourth on the grid when Ferrari’s polesitter Charles Leclerc failed to make the start. Norris chased after the remaining Ferrari of Carlos Sainz Jr in the first stint, but then started to fade in the second stint on hard tyres. Due to Valtteri Bottas retiring following a […]
Bottas had hoped to take the fight to Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in Monaco after seeing pole-sitter Charles Leclerc fail to start, promoting the Mercedes driver to second for lights out. Bottas maintained the position after Verstappen defended well at Turn 1, opening up a five-second gap over the Finn through the opening stint. But […]