Amid a disappointing start to the 2023 season, Tost said at the Saudi Arabian GP he didn’t trust his engineers after the AT04 failed to live up to expectations. The team showed some signs of progress in Melbourne, where Yuki Tsunoda qualified 12th and scored the team’s first point of the season with 10th place, having risen […]
While Red Bull has enjoyed a perfect record of three wins across the opening races in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Australia, in the latter event Mercedes replaced Aston Martin as the second-best team. But the cancellation of a return to China has now left a four-week gap in the calendar until the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, […]
Westacott fronted media on Monday morning in Melbourne following what is his final race at the helm of the Australian GP promoter. Unsurprisingly the two key topics were a pair of significant safety issues that occurred yesterday – a fan injured by debris in the crowd and the premature track invasion at the end of […]
The Melbourne race was dominated by three in-race red flags, leading to lengthy delays and chaotic standing restarts, the latter of which eliminated several drivers. On lap 7 Alex Albon’s crash brought out the first safety car of the race, which prompted Mercedes’ race leader George Russell to pit for hard tyres. But soon after […]
The squad duly arrived in Australia with a new layout for its front wing, which took into account a revised flap arrangement as well as tweaks to the endplate and diveplane areas. This was aimed at helping balance the car with the various rear wing choices it has on offer. The endplate is now more […]
Vettel retired at the end of last year after a 15-year career which yielded four consecutive world championships for Red Bull from 2010 until 2013. He ended his run in F1, which also included a long stint at Ferrari, with two years in the midfield at Aston Martin, where he failed to find success apart […]
The timetable of a race weekend has been thrust into the limelight following comments from F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali that he is in favour of scrapping free practice sessions. This has been followed by drivers and championship chiefs pushing to revise the structure of a sprint round by ditching the unpopular Saturday FP2 session in […]
The 2021 World Superbike champion will team up with the Iwata marque’s regular test rider Cal Crutchlow at the Spanish circuit for two days of testing from 10-11 April. Razgatlioglu previously tested the YZR-M1 last June in an outing at Motorland Aragon which was cut short due to inclement weather. The Turkish rider, who rides […]
The team had a disastrous Sunday afternoon in Melbourne terms of the F1 world championship, failing to score any points, as Charles Leclerc retired on the first lap after contact with Lance Stroll and Carlos Sainz tumbled from fourth to 12th place after taking a five-second penalty for causing a collision with Fernando Alonso. Despite […]
After rival Aston Martin emerged as Red Bull’s main threat in the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix, it was Mercedes that took the challenge to F1’s current pacesetter in Melbourne. George Russell secured a spot on the front row and led the early stages ahead of the first safety car period, while Lewis Hamilton […]