Krack conceded that the Silverstone team was encouraged by the strong form shown across the first three tracks on the schedule, but insisted that small margins will make a difference from weekend to weekend. Fernando Alonso took his third straight third place of the season in Melbourne, but the Spaniard was beaten to the flag […]
Red flag delays meant the final restart took place a lot later than the race was expected to run, which may have contributed to the chain of first lap incidents that led to the final red flag, with Perez also citing cold tyres as another factor. Perez was among those involved as he went across the grass and […]
Stroll was seventh into the first corner at the chaotic ‘third’ start, but he jumped up to third as Carlos Sainz tapped Fernando Alonso into a spin while Pierre Gasly and Sergio Perez both went wide. However, he lost some momentum with a snap of oversteer exiting Turn 2, giving Sainz the opportunity to draw […]
The ex-AlphaTauri racer was on course to bag fifth position, but at the third standing start of the race after a red flag initiated by a shunt for Kevin Magnussen, Gasly was forced into avoiding action. As the pack concertinaed into Turn 1, he locked up and ran over the grass to miss clipping the […]
After a disappointing start to the campaign, with its AT04 not making the step forward hoped for, the squad has worked hard to address areas where it felt it was especially lacking. The first fruits of that labour appeared in Melbourne, where the team brought some key developments that it hoped would start it on […]
Fortune went the way of both McLaren drivers during a hectic event at Albert Park, with the chaotic final restart leaving Piastri in eighth place and his team-mate Lando Norris in sixth. McLaren didn’t score any points in the first two races, with Piastri retiring with an electrical issue in Bahrain and left stranded at […]
Following Arroyo’s departure earlier this year, Rossomondo arrives at Dorna, the MotoGP promoter and organiser, after 15 years working at the NBA, having most recently held the position of senior vice president for global partnerships and media. Before joining the NBA back in 2004, he worked for the promotions department of Madison Square Garden in […]
Massa’s actions have been prompted by recent comments from former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone regarding the fall-out from Nelson Piquet Jr’s deliberate crash in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix that helped his Renault team win. Ecclestone suggested that both he and then FIA president Max Mosley knew about the infamous incident during the 2008 season […]
The South African sensationally won the sprint race on Saturday at the Argentina GP despite starting 15th on the grid, but had no such luck in the full-distance contest on Sunday. Binder was nudged slightly by the Aprilia of Vinales under braking for Turn 5 as the latter tried to make an overtake, with the […]
The action, which alleges that the team made “fraudulent statements” when it signed the deal with mobile phone company ROKiT, has been dismissed by Williams as “spurious”. ROKiT claims that Williams promised that it would have a competitive car in 2019 while knowing that it did not have sufficient funds to back up that claim. […]