Verstappen and Ocon were part of a gaggle of drivers that backed up at the end of the main straight as they prepared to start their final laps of the session. Keen to get a clear lap and worried about complying with the FIA’s minimum delta requirements, Ocon passed Yuki Tsunoda, Zhou Guanyu and his […]
Sainz ran second quickest in the pole position shootout, falling only 0.044s short of team-mate Charles Leclerc as Max Verstappen abandoned his final flying lap to end up third. But Sainz must fight back from 12th on the grid as a legacy of taking a third control electronics package of the season to exceed the […]
Following a disrupted first day of running on Thursday night and Friday morning, most of which was held behind closed doors, fans were welcomed back into the grandstands to witness final practice on the streets of Las Vegas. With the track re-opened for road traffic during the day, action got underway at 8:30pm local time […]
The Pramac Ducati rider comes to Qatar trailing Francesco Bagnaia by 14 points and will lose the championship if he is outscored by 23 points this weekend. After a tough Malaysian GP last week in which he was beaten to third by Bagnaia, Martin’s Qatar GP didn’t get off to a great start as he […]
F1’s long-awaited spectacle on the streets of the gambling haven of America got off to a disrupted start on Thursday when Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari suffered huge damage after striking the a loose water valve cover after just eight minutes into FP1. The session was abandoned as track workers were forced to remove all 30 covers […]
The asphalt at the Losail International Circuit has been repaved for the first time since it opened in 2004 ahead of this year’s event. As a result of this and the desert setting, grip was at a premium on Friday morning for the first practice session, with lap times well over three seconds off the […]
The team fast-tracked some new components through the manufacturing process and will be running them in both Las Vegas and at the season finale in Abu Dhabi that follows. The items were not expected to improve the performance of the A523 in Las Vegas. The team struggled for pace in FP2, with Gasly 15th and […]
The only night practice of the Qatar weekend proved to be a tight affair, as Fernandez on his year-old Aprilia edged ahead of Gresini Ducati’s Fabio Di Giannantonio by 0.049 seconds after an hour of running. Maverick Vinales had been set to end second practice fastest of all with a new lap record, but the […]
F1’s much anticipated romp around the streets of Vegas hit an early roadblock when the cars of Carlos Sainz and Esteban Ocon dislodged water valve covers, which damaged both of their chassis beyond repair and led to FP1 being abandoned after eight minutes. After emergency fixes were applied to the 30 similar covers around the […]
MotoGP’s return to Qatar for 2023 has come later in the year than normal, after the event was shifted from its traditional season-opener slot due to major track works. As such, lap times at the end of a largely unrepresentative FP1 were some four seconds off the outright record of 1m52.772s set in 2021 by […]