On-track, the 2023 edition of the Austrian Grand Prix offered plenty of wheel-to-wheel action, arguably yielding one of the more exciting Formula 1 races of the year. But many of its biggest talking points were off it – and quite literally too, as a track limits storm raged during and after the race at the […]
The Red Bull Ring is familiar to track limits violations, but after checking over 1200 potential breaches at the Austrian GP, the FIA changed the final order for a large portion of the grid with multiple post-race penalties. Mixed into this was McLaren’s best result of the year with Lando Norris in fourth, another strong […]
Lewis Hamilton led team-mate George Russell for a 7-8 result at the Red Bull Ring. Seven-time champion Hamilton finished 39 seconds behind runaway victor Max Verstappen, who might have crossed the line a further 20s ahead had he not made a late pitstop to successfully take the bonus point for fastest lap away from Red […]
Aston Martin lodged its appeal against the provisional race classification after claiming that a number of cars were not penalised for potentially having breached track limits repeatedly. The FIA has since revealed it was unable to review all reports of cars having strayed beyond the painted white lines with all four wheels during the race […]
Max Verstappen dominated the Red Bull Ring race to win from Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and team-mate Sergio Perez. But the provisional result was soon plunged into doubt. Aston Martin launched a protest in relation to incidents of breaches of track limits – predominately at Turns 9 and 10 – not being correctly identified and penalised. The […]
The result of the 71-lap race remains provisional as of Sunday evening following a protest from Aston Martin concerning how breaches of track limits were punished. Of the 20 drivers, only Mercedes racer George Russell and Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso escaped without at least one incident of a track limits violation – the vast majority […]
The team has been branded as AlphaTauri – the clothing subsidiary of the Red Bull group – since the 2020 season. However, as recently revealed by Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko, that deal is coming to end, creating the opportunity to rebrand the Faenza outfit next season. It’s not yet clear whether the team […]
Horner has voiced worries in both F1 Commission and team principal meetings that grand prix racing’s chiefs need to be careful about how the 2026 rules package comes together, as there is a risk of them unleashing ‘Frankenstein’ cars if they get it wrong. He suggests that with the combustion engine and battery configuration leaving […]
The Canadian’s impassioned call came after Dutch Formula Regional driver Dilano van ’t Hoff lost his life on Saturday in an accident on a rain-soaked circuit at the top of Raidillon. The incident involved a high-speed collision and was similar in nature to the accident that cost the life of F2 driver Anthoine Hubert at […]
On Saturday Verstappen won the sprint race from pole position and can complete the clean sweep on Sunday as he starts from pole for the grand prix, after topping Friday’s qualifying. But for Sergio Perez, who finished runner-up to Verstappen in the sprint race after almost clashing with his Red Bull team-mate on the opening […]