The Brackley-based outfit has faced a challenge in dialling out its car bouncing on the straights without compromising performance, with Lewis Hamilton lauding his third place in last weekend’s Bahrain season-opener as the “the best result we could have gotten”. Mercedes is adamant that once it has a better understanding of what it needs to […]
Bahrain GP winner Leclerc was fastest in FP1 and under the floodlights in FP2, but he hit the wall at Turn 4 in the latter and was forced to limp back to the pits, ruining his long run. Read Also: Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was second fastest on the day, ahead of the second Ferrari […]
Fresh from his victory in the 2022 F1 opener in Bahrain, the Ferrari driver topped FP2 by 0.140s from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen but Leclerc saw his session ended prematurely after he sustained car damage in a hit with the wall. Leclerc’s team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr suffered a similar fate and also missed out on […]
After an intense day triggered by a missile attack by Houthis on an oil facility near the Jeddah track during first free practice, the fate of the race hung in the balance late on Friday amid unease from drivers about the situation. During lengthy talks that stretched on for more than four hours, the drivers […]
A missile attack on an oil facility near the Jeddah circuit on Friday afternoon, coming less than a week after a similar assault at Saudi targets, prompted unease within the paddock about potential risks of the grand prix being a target. F1 chiefs held a series of meetings throughout Friday with the local authorities to […]
As F1 cars took to the Jeddah street circuit for the opening practice session, black smoke was seen drifting into the sky as the result of a large fire at an Aramco facility near the international airport. The Jeddah circuit is around 10 miles from the airport and the smell of burning oil drifted across […]
As his Woking-based team comes to terms with a disappointing season opener in Bahrain, Norris says it is facing up to a fundamental lack of grip from its new MCL36. With the car’s balance not being too bad, and there being no other fundamental vices, he says the team now knows where it needs to […]
It will be Hulkenberg’s fifth race of the COVID-19 era as a stand-in after his three starts with the then Racing Point team in 2020. An Aston Martin statement said: “Nico Hulkenberg will practice, qualify and race alongside Lance Stroll. “Despite lack of mileage in the AMR22 Nico coped well in Bahrain and we are […]
The Dane landed fifth in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on his return to Haas, after he was recalled to replace Russian driver Nikita Mazepin for 2022. That result, however, followed the three-day pre-season test at the Sakhir venue, and Haas was awarded extra sessions on Friday and Saturday to recover from a missed first […]
With Ferrari having hit the ground running with its F1-75, Sainz has found himself not as immediately comfortable with the car as his team-mate. And with him open that he needs to address the situation as quickly as possible, Sainz says a lot of work has been done in the days since the Bahrain Grand […]