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Last Friday Reutemann, who finished runner-up to Nelson Piquet in the 1981 F1 world championship, was transferred from the Santa Fe hospital to a different hospital in Rosario after repeated episodes of internal bleeding due to a digestive haemorrhage. Reutemann, who has been treated at the intensive care section of Rosario’s Sanatorio… Continue Reading on Autosport
Jack Miller secured his first MotoGP race win in five years last time out at Jerez but was slightly fortunate to see long-time leader Fabio Quartararo fade badly suffering with severe arm pump. Miller led home a Ducati 1-2 in Spain with team-mate Francesco Bagnaia taking the runner-up spot which meant he became the new […]
The German took 15th place in the season opener in Bahrain and was also classified in the same position at Imola after a late retirement, and finished 13th in the Portuguese and Spanish Grands Prix. For Barcelona Vettel had the new floor that his Aston team-mate Lance Stroll had already tried in Portimao, and despite […]
Mercedes team boss Wolff was heard requesting blue flags from Masi as Lewis Hamilton closed up to lap Haas driver Nikita Mazepin shortly before making his first pit stop. The complaint was broadcast on the F1 world feed, marking the first time a message to race control from one of the teams had been aired. […]
Ferrari finished as the leading midfield team in Spain on Sunday as Charles Leclerc took a comfortable fourth-place finish, having spent the first stint keeping Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas behind. Team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr was unable to regain places from Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo after a slow start, but took seventh place to help… Continue […]
Alonso is still getting up to speed on his return to F1 this year, and has been outqualified in three of the four races so far by his French team-mate. But while Ocon has certainly benefited from being well settled in at Alpine, after a sometimes challenging 2020 campaign with the squad, Alonso is still […]
Questions over the design of the Red Bull rear wing in particular were floated during the Spanish GP last weekend after Lewis Hamilton suggested its design was “bendy”. The inference was that Red Bull could be exploiting a more flexible wing that rotates down on the straights to boost top speed, but then comes up […]
The mule car testing programme continues this week in Barcelona, with Red Bull and Alfa Romeo joining the programme, and Alpine running for a second time after an earlier session this year in Bahrain. Further dry testing is planned with AlphaTauri in Austria, followed by Red Bull, Aston Martin and Haas at Silverstone, and then […]
The opening four races have pointed to Red Bull having a quicker car in qualifying, but Mercedes holding the edge when it comes to managing tyres over longer runs. The advantage that the Mercedes held in looking after its tyres was obvious at last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, when Lewis Hamilton’s rubber appeared to be in much… Continue […]
McLaren picked up where it left off in 2020, holding third place in the constructors’ championship after four races with a slender five-point lead over Ferrari. At last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix McLaren was outscored by the Italian outfit for the first time in 2021, with Ferrari’s qualifying performance proving key on the Circuit de… […]