The Monegasque driver took his first win since April’s Australian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring on Sunday, with better tyre management on his F1-75 allowing him to overtake and beat pole position man Max Verstappen. The triumph was especially significant because it came off the back of what Leclerc has labelled a ‘disaster’ […]
It was announced on Tuesday that Ganassi had taken up his option on its 2021 IndyCar champion to retain him through the end of the 2023 season. The release included a quote from Ganassi, who has seen his drivers score 14 championships since 1996, and also supposedly from Palou – a fact that the Spaniard […]
Masi had been in limbo since it was announced shortly before the start of the season and in the wake of the Abu Dhabi controversy that he would not have the race director role in 2022, and would be replaced by Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas. However he remained in the employ of the FIA […]
Herta, who has racked up seven wins and eight pole positions since joining the IndyCar Series full-time in 2019, tested last year’s McLaren MCL35M under the TPC [testing previous car] rules, running 162 laps of the 2.891-mile Autodromo Internacional do Algarve across two days. Although running the car on a track at which McLaren had […]
The form has come as the result of a pretty intensive development push this season that has helped Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon keep bringing home the points – and even the occasional real stand out performance. Ocon’s top five finish in Austria, and Alonso’s charge from the back of the grid that could have […]
After winning eight constructors’ championships in a row, Mercedes’ streak looks set to end this year after struggling to get to grips with the overhauled technical regulations for the 2022 season. A recurring bouncing issue with the Mercedes W13 car has left drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell struggling to compete at the very front of the pack […]
The Japanese manufacturer has scored just 85 points in the constructors’ championship so far in 2022 after 11 races, mustering just a single podium courtesy of Pol Espargaro’s third place in Qatar. Since then, its best result has been a fourth for Marc Marquez at Jerez, with the six-time world champion still its top rider […]
Sainz was about to challenge Max Verstappen for second place when his engine went up in smoke with 15 laps to go, and the Spaniard immediately pulled over at Turn 4. The back of his Ferrari F1-75 was quickly engulfed in flames as Sainz was frantically waving at the marshals to attend to him. But while he was […]
The Ferrari driver delivered in confident fashion with three on-track passes on the reigning world champion to take his first win since the Australian Grand Prix in April. Carlos Sainz looked set to follow his team-mate past Verstappen and secure second place until an engine problem caused his car to catch fire. Leclerc’s win came […]
After scoring his maiden F1 points by finishing eighth in the British Grand Prix one week earlier, Schumacher went two places better with sixth in Austria on Sunday. The German driver fought against Hamilton through Saturday’s 24-lap sprint race, and found himself scrapping with the Mercedes driver once again during the opening stages of the […]