In the wake of Max Verstappen having no answer for the pace of Valtteri Bottas in the Turkish Grand Prix, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner thinks that the competitive picture between the two F1 title rivals has shifted in recent weeks. Whereas Red Bull appeared to hold a pace advantage heading in to the […]
Hamilton had staged a recovery from 11th on the grid to challenge for a podium finish in the wet Istanbul race, when his main rivals elected to stop for fresh intermediate rubber. With the older tyres holding up well at that point, Hamilton elected to push on and ignore a call from his Mercedes pits […]
Formula 1’s return to Istanbul Park for 2021 may have lacked the slipping and sliding of last year, yet it provided another intriguing, strategy-filled race. Valtteri Bottas scored his first win in over a year with a controlled display at the front of the pack in damp conditions, ensuring Max Verstappen never had a sniff […]
On a wet track Hamilton was trying to carve his way back through the field after a grid penalty made him start in 11th. By Lap 35 Hamilton had moved up to fifth and launched an attack on Red Bull’s Perez on Istanbul Park’s back straight. After the pair went wheel-to-wheel through the final corner […]
Milan tragically died in a multi-rider incident in July during the European Talent Cup round at Aragon. He was the second of three teenagers to have been killed this year in junior motorcycle races, following 19-year-old Jason Dupasquier’s passing after a crash during Moto3 qualifying at Mugello, while 15-year-old Dean Berta Vinales died in a […]
After seeing most of the frontrunning drivers pit with around 20 laps to go for a fresh set of intermediate tyres, Mercedes opted to keep Hamilton out as he felt his tyres were still in good enough shape. The team considered keeping Hamilton out all the way to the end of the race, only to […]
A test could be undertaken as soon as the United States GP in Austin in a fortnight’s time. At the moment drivers are expected to slow and not record a meaningful lap time when they pass double yellows. That can occasionally lead to controversy, as happened with Fernando Alonso in qualifying at the Turkish GP. […]
Verstappen moved six points clear of Hamilton at the top of the drivers’ standings after finishing second in a damp Turkish Grand Prix at Istanbul Park on Sunday. Hamilton entered the weekend with a two-point advantage, but was forced to start 11th on the grid after an engine penalty. He recovered to finish the race […]
The Haas driver endured the worst of the spray thrown into the air at the back of the F1 pack during the wet race at the Istanbul Park track, a challenge he had to contend with both ahead of him and behind while being lapped later in the race. Mazepin felt the spray was even […]
With track conditions at Istanbul not drying up enough to be suitable for slicks, leaders Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen elected to pit around lap 36 for fresh inters to see them through to the end. But Leclerc, who had been shadowing Verstappen prior to the pitstops, chose to stay out and initially it appeared […]