The Monegasque driver had faced an anxious wait overnight to see whether or not his gearbox would need replacing following his Q3 crash. Had he needed a new gearbox fitted, it would have meant a five-place grid drop – handing pole position to Max Verstappen. Ferrari gave the gearbox a quick inspection on Saturday evening […]
Ricciardo finished the session in 12th place, while Norris progressed through in sixth, and then moved up to fifth on the final grid. Norris’s time in Q3 was almost a second faster than Ricciardo had managed in Q2, although the Englishman was helped by track evolution. Nevertheless, Ricciardo noted that the difference in pace has […]
The Ferrari driver converted his impressive practice pace into top spot in qualifying for Ferrari, despite crashing during his final Q3 run which triggered a late red flag. The premature end to the final session of qualifying denied his rivals the opportunity to improve on their final flying laps, handing Leclerc his first F1 pole […]
F1 championship leader Hamilton slumped to his worst qualifying result in almost three years on Saturday in Monaco, finishing seventh after lapping almost three-quarters of a second off the pole position time. Team-mate Valtteri Bottas was able to qualifying third for Mercedes, while Hamilton’s primary title rival, Max Verstappen, took… Continue Reading on Autosport
Leclerc scored Ferrari’s first pole position for 18 months after topping qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday. But the session ended under a red flag after Leclerc crashed at the exit of Swimming Pool, preventing any other cars from improving their lap times and inadvertently giving him pole. Leclerc admitted after the… Continue […]
After qualifying 10th two weeks ago for his home grand prix in Barcelona, Alonso failed to progress to Q2 for the first time this season. The double F1 world champion finished 17th in Q1, four tenths behind Alpine team-mate Esteban Ocon, who did go through to Q2 and qualified 11th. Alonso said his team has […]
Following his graduation from F2 to F1 with Haas for 2021, Mazepin has finished as the slowest driver to set a time in qualifying at every race, and as the last classified driver in the three races he has finished. But Mazepin was able to lead Haas’s efforts through practice on Thursday in Monaco, finishing […]
Video footage of Red Bull’s rear wing tilting back at high speeds on the Barcelona straight at the previous grand prix courted the ire of Mercedes, with Lewis Hamilton quick to draw attention to the “bendy” wing on the RB16B. And thus, the can of worms was opened; Ferrari and Alfa Romeo also admitted to […]
After finishing fourth in last year’s constructors’ championship under its previous Racing Point guise, Aston Martin set its sights on leading the midfield teams this year with third in the standings. But the downforce cuts on the 2021 cars appeared to hit Aston Martin the hardest, causing the team’s form to slump compared to… Continue […]
For Monaco, that has led to the introduction of an interesting serrated diffuser concept that was tried for the first time in Thursday practice. The design, which only appeared on Max Verstappen’s car during FP1, features a revised outer section, whereby a serrated edge has been applied to the two innermost Gurney-like extensions that… Continue […]