The changes made to the outer portion of the front wing’s upper flap and where it connects with the endplate will be familiar, as a number of teams have made headway in this region so far this season. The alteration made by Ferrari is subtle at this stage though, with just a c-shaped cut-out made […]
This growth can be attributed to several factors, including the impact of the Netflix series Drive to Survive and the expansion of the US Grands Prix to include a second race in Miami and a third race in Las Vegas. In 2023, it also has the added value of an American driver in Logan Sargeant. […]
After the Bahrain Grand Prix team boss Toto Wolff made it clear that it was time to look at a change of direction, and that there would be “no holy cows” in terms of sticking to established ideas. The definition of exactly what the concept of an F1 car entails has been a talking point […]
In Bahrain’s season opening race, Alpine driver Ocon was penalised for incorrectly positioning his car in his grid slot. The same thing happened to Aston Martin’s Alonso in Saudi Arabia, as the Spaniard was given a five-second time penalty for starting too far to the left of his box. However, Alonso still finished on the […]
Mercedes’ poor start to the season looked set to continue when it struggled through Friday practice, but after overnight work the team unearthed more performance for qualifying. While Lewis Hamilton still struggled to get to grips with certain characteristics of the W14, team-mate Russell made a step forward by qualifying fourth, which became third after […]
The Silverstone squad has shown race pace second only to reigning constructors’ champion Red Bull at the start of the new season, with Alonso reinstated to third place in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after his team successfully appealed a 10-second reprimand for the rear jack touching the car during a pitstop penalty. This strong […]
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Ferrari arrived at the start of the season in Bahrain, with Charles Leclerc retiring from third place and Sainz struggling to keep up with Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, “cooking” his tyres as he lost out on a podium. Ahead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, team boss Fred Vasseur maintained that Ferrari’s main issue in […]
In both cases, the drivers were deemed to have placed their cars too far to one side of their grid boxes at the start, and both subsequently received penalties. The decisions by the stewards were based on an addition to the International Sporting Code that was introduced for 2022, which says that a car “must […]
Fernando Alonso finished a strong third in the season opener at Sakhir, albeit helped by the retirement of Charles Leclerc. However, Krack says the team remained “cautious” about the rest of the season, while knowing that Jeddah’s high-speed corners and long straights would provide a different test. Last weekend Leclerc outqualified Alonso, but the Ferrari […]