The region of Quebec in which Montreal sits is experiencing its worst fire season on record, with more than 150 blazes having been reported. Smoke from the fires has been drifting south across Canada and into the United States, with New York, in particular, being engulfed amid growing health concerns over the toxic air. Tens […]
The official Mercedes reserve was drafted in for the second day of testing for Pirelli at Barcelona on Wednesday, as work continues evaluating tyres that are not heated by blankets. The run was the first opportunity that Schumacher has had to drive the W14 since he joined the German manufacturer, and he duly completed 152 […]
Perez won two of the four opening races of the 2023 season, and after his victory in the Azerbaijan GP, he was just six points behind Verstappen and touted as a potential title challenger. The gap was extended when the Dutchman led a Red Bull 1-2 in Miami, and then the Mexican had a disastrous […]
Having ended 2020 as championship runner-up on the Petronas SRT Yamaha, Morbidelli’s time in MotoGP has grown immensely difficult. INSIGHT: Yamaha’s once leading light fighting for his MotoGP future Since switching to the factory Yamaha squad midway through 2021, Morbidelli has scored a best of fourth – which came in 2023 in Argentina in the […]
At last week’s Spanish Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell scored a double podium after the Brackley team’s comprehensive upgrade package delivered a solid step forward. While Hamilton still finished 24 seconds behind dominant winner Max Verstappen, Mercedes’ W14 was the second-strongest car on the high-downforce circuit, providing the team with a solid baseline […]
The 2021 world champion has scored just one podium from the opening five rounds of the 2023 campaign and is currently 45 points off the championship lead. Yamaha threw a lot of development parts to its M1 over the winter, which ended up making matters worse for Quartararo throughout testing. This forced him to go […]
From the launch of the MCL60, Stella stressed a need for the team to remain “realistic” as it started the campaign with an underbaked design. In the meantime, he led an overhaul of the technical division by getting rid of director James Key before hiring David Sanchez from Ferrari and experienced Red Bull chief engineer […]
Key will join the Sauber-run team on 1 September, taking over the role from Jan Monchaux. He has been identified as the man to lead the team into its Audi era by Sauber Motorsport CEO Andreas Seidl, his former boss at McLaren in 2019-2022. Key already knows the Hinwil operation well having served as technical […]
McLaren had its strongest qualifying performance of the season in Barcelona with Lando Norris taking a surprise third on the grid, while Piastri earned 10th before gaining a spot from a penalty for Pierre Gasly. The drivers cautioned before the race that conditions in qualifying had flattered the car. However, the race proved to be […]
Hulkenberg was fast throughout the Spanish GP weekend, qualifying ninth and starting eighth after gaining a spot from a penalty for Pierre Gasly. He ran in the same position in the early laps of the race but had to pit and abandon his soft tyres after just eight laps. That led him into a three-stop […]