After finishing second in Turkish Grand Prix FP1, four tenths down on Mercedes‘ Lewis Hamilton, Verstappen slipped to fifth in second practice behind team-mate Sergio Perez and over six tenths shy of leader Hamilton. In the afternoon session Verstappen appeared to struggle with understeer and on the team radio he reported the car was… Continue […]
Ferrari announced ahead of the race weekend at Istanbul Park that Sainz would be starting at the back of the grid on Sunday after the team took an all-new power unit, giving him the upgraded hybrid system. It meant Sainz focused his Friday running on race pace to prepare for Sunday’s grand prix, but Leclerc […]
After drivers struggled to find grip on the newly-resurfaced track last season, Pirelli went one step softer for this year’s race, switching from the C1, C2, C3 combination to the C2, C3 and C4. However, having made that choice, Pirelli learned that the characteristics of the track had been changed after the race promoter decided […]
With the world champion team concerned about the risk of a reliability failure in the closing stages of the championship, it has opted to fit Hamilton with a fresh internal combustion engine for this weekend’s Turkish Grand Prix. The choice to change just a single component means Hamilton will get a 10-place grid penalty rather […]
The world champion team had been evaluating whether or not it could risk leaving Hamilton on his current power unit pool allocation until the end of the season. But amid concerns about the potential major impact a retirement could have on his title ambitions, a call has been made for Hamilton to fit a fresh […]
The Dutch driver is currently two points behind Hamilton with seven races of the current campaign remaining, as he contests his first F1 championship fight. Verstappen’s contest with Hamilton in 2021 has featured several flash points – with their biggest clashes coming in the crashes at Silverstone and Monza – while he has also lost… […]
F1 is set to reveal its calendar for next season in the coming week ahead of the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council meeting, with a 23-race schedule anticipated. F1 CEO and president Stefano Domenicali has already confirmed plans for a 23-race season that, despite finishing earlier in the year than 2021, will feature the most […]
More than a quarter of a century since the original Team Lotus closed its doors, the legendary British constructor is still one of the most successful in Formula 1 history. The 79 world championship F1 wins scored by the firm founded by Colin Chapman puts Lotus fifth in the table, behind Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and […]
Ahead of this weekend’s Turkish Grand Prix, the Istanbul Park circuit was water-blasted to make the surface rougher following an FIA recommendation in the aftermath of the 2020 event. The Istanbul surface had been re-laid with fresh asphalt ahead of Turkey’s return to the F1 calendar for the first time since 2011, but as the […]
The reigning Moto2 world champion showed flashes of speed in the early part of maiden campaign in MotoGP, but has taken a giant leap in form since the Aragon Grand Prix. Scoring his first top-six result at Aragon, Bastianini followed that up with a stunning ride to third from 12th at Misano, and scored sixth […]