Russell qualified ninth at the Red Bull Ring on Saturday – he will start eighth after Sebastian Vettel’s grid penalty is applied – after getting through to Q3 for the first time as a Williams driver. The Briton had maintained his record of escaping Q1 at every race so far in 2021 when Williams sent […]
The Italian team was so keen not to be obliged to start on the soft tyre on Sunday that both drivers focussed their efforts on running the medium tyre in Q2. They ended the session in 11th and 12th places, with Sainz ahead of Leclerc, and thus didn’t make it through to Q3. Meanwhile Russell […]
Vettel has been dropped from eighth to 11th on the grid, handing places to George Russell, his own Aston Martin team-mate Lance Stroll, and Carlos Sainz Jr, while he also picks up a penalty point. Alonso was left furious after his final lap in the Q2 session was ruined when he came into the last […]
Mercedes announced on Saturday that seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton had signed a new two-year contract, keeping him with the team until the end of the 2023 season. It leaves one free seat at Mercedes for 2022, with Bottas out of contract and facing competition from Mercedes junior George Russell to be Hamilton’s team-mate next… […]
The Red Bull driver dominated qualifying for the second Austrian race to clinch his fourth pole of the season and third in a row, beating an impressive charge by McLaren’s Lando Norris by just 0.048s. Norris, who secured his best-ever F1 qualifying result, beat Red Bull’s Sergio Perez and both Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and… […]
Russell finished just eight-thousandths of a second shy of a Q3 berth last Saturday at the Red Bull Ring, and was in the hunt for points in the race before a power unit issue forced him to retire. But Russell showed few signs of the setback hurting him as he battled his way into Q3 […]
All drivers were allocated two sets of the new tyres to run at any point in all three practice sessions, with some teams choosing to complete their running in FP3 on Saturday. The consensus from drivers was that the new tyre – which was run at 2psi lower than the regular 2021 rears in Austria […]
With the F1 world champion having only agreed late last winter a single season contract extension for 2021, there had been intense speculation over recent months about what his long-term plans were. However, with the Briton and his team bosses eager to not let discussions drag on too long amid the intensity of the current […]
Aiming to bounce back after Max Verstappen dominated last weekend’s Styrian GP at the Red Bull Ring, both Mercedes drivers demonstrated eye-catching practice pace in FP2 with Hamilton topping the times with a 1m04.523s to edge team-mate Valtteri Bottas by 0.189s. Hamilton, who did suffer a scare in the second practice session after… Continue Reading […]
The Silverstone-based team revamped its livery this season for the iconic British racing green colours of its parent sportscar manufacturer. But the dark green sometimes makes the AMR21 appear similar to other cars, especially the black Mercedes, on television. Earlier this week, Andreas Weissenbacher, CEO of the team’s former title… Continue Reading on Autosport