Let’s address the foregone conclusion first: if proceedings at the Interlagos circuit on Sunday bear any correlation with a standard 2023 weekend, then Max Verstappen will win the Brazilian Grand Prix. The three-time world champion has won four of the six sprints this season and, of the three he won prior to this weekend, he […]
The race weekend in Sao Paulo concluded F1’s larger offering of sprint races over the 2023 season, having expanded from three to six for this year. This came amid a change where the sprint would no longer have an impact on the full grand prix’s qualifying order, with Saturday acting as a standalone day for […]
The reigning world champion was victorious in the Brazilian GP sprint race on Saturday, beating polesitter Lando Norris into Turn 1 before managing from the front to pick up his fourth sprint race triumph of the season. Norris recovered from dropping to third on the opening lap to take the runner-up result for McLaren, as […]
Following instances of drivers stopping on the exit of the pitlane in recent races, in response to a maximum lap time rule designed to minimise traffic during qualifying, the FIA elected to ban that practice and introduce new guidance for the Brazilian Grand Prix. This allows drivers to make their gap between the pit exit […]
Following the race at Austin a fortnight ago, there were allegations that some drivers had taken liberties with abusing the track limits at areas of the track that were not heavily policed. On-board footage of several cars that were being distributed among teams especially showed a number of drivers being well beyond the track edge […]
Those events saw three out of four starts made from the pitlane as the team tried to learn more about the update package it debuted at Circuit of the Americas. And just to make life even tougher, Fernando Alonso was forced to retire from both races with floor damage. And yet, just days after the […]
The German manufacturer announced last year that it had agreed to become a “strategic partner” of the Sauber outfit for its official entry as a manufacturer squad in 2026, while Sauber earlier this year confirmed an undisclosed stake had been bought by Audi. Since then however, Audi has stayed out of the public spotlight and […]
With a storm blowing across the Interlagos circuit for the Q3 segment of qualifying, teams knew that getting out on track early enough before the rain started was critical to secure a good grid slot. But although Lewis Hamilton and George Russell were third and fourth in the queue at the end of the pitlane […]
Exiting the pitlane in Q1, ahead of the first flying laps of the session, Russell slowly rolled down the pit exit on the inside of the Senna Esses to create a gap to the cars in front. Due to the narrow nature of the pit exit Russell impeded Alpine driver Gasly, who complained over the team […]
Verstappen posted a 1min10.727s flying lap to beat Ferrari rival Charles Leclerc to pole position at Interlagos in a shootout that was red-flagged owing to a thunderstorm hitting the track. While Q3 was almost entirely dry until the stoppage with four minutes to run, Verstappen reckoned changing wind conditions created “terrible” laps as grip levels […]