After a storming rookie campaign in 2019 with Petronas SRT on Yamaha’s ‘B-spec’ M1, in which he scored seven podiums and six poles, Quartararo was signed by the Japanese marque to its factory team for 2021 at the very start of last year. PLUS: The Rossi replacement who’s become the MotoGP leader Yamaha needed With […]
The New Zealander is set to pilot the Red Bull RB7 that guided Sebastian Vettel to his second F1 world championship in 2011 at the famous hillclimb event. This will be the first taste of F1 machinery for the 19-year-old currently competing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship. Lawson visited Red Bull’s Milton Keynes base […]
The British Grand Prix will mark the first running of F1’s new weekend format that will feature a 100km race take place on Saturday afternoon in the normal qualifying slot. The traditional qualifying format will be used for a session on Friday afternoon to set the grid for the sprint race, the result of which […]
Reutemann’s condition had deteriorated in the last couple of days after he suffered further issues with haemorrhaging while in the intensive care unit of a health centre in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina. The former F1 driver and current Senator in Argentina had been hospitalised on 30 May and was moved to the ICU […]
Race: 1974 South African GP, KyalamiCar: Brabham BT44 After the 1974 Argentinian and Brazilian Grands Prix, some of us went to South Africa to test – there was a non-points race at Brands Hatch in between, with temperatures 30C less than in South Africa – prior to the GP there. F1: Ranking F1’s best point-less […]
In 1974, Argentina’s Reutemann scored his first grand prix win, at Kyalami in South Africa. It was significant not only as the first Formula 1 World Championship triumph for a Brabham since 1970, but also the first victory for a Gordon Murray-designed F1 car – by happy coincidence, in Murray’s original home country. The fact that… […]
Hamilton and Norris fought over second place during the opening stint of last weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring, following the McLaren driver’s controversial clash with Sergio Perez, which left the Red Bull driver in the gravel and Norris handed a penalty. After Norris had defied Hamilton for 15 laps, the younger… […]
Espargaro has qualified in the top 10 on just two occasions from the first nine rounds of the 2021 campaign, which has hindered his progress on Sundays, with the Spaniard’s best result so far an eighth. The Honda rookie has on a number of occasions shown strong pace through practice, but struggles in time attack […]
Ocon started the season strongly for Alpine, scoring points in four consecutive races from Imola to Monaco and outqualifying two-time F1 world champion team-mate Fernando Alonso at each of those events. But the Frenchman has failed to record a top-10 finish in any of the last four rounds, and was eliminated in Q1 for the […]
Accumulating 12 penalty points within a 12-month period obliges the driver concerned to serve an F1 race ban. Points are awarded automatically by the FIA stewards via a “shopping list” of offences on top of any penalties such as a drop of grid places or added race time that the driver receives. Some observers have […]