The Alpine team was deemed by the FIA stewards to have performed an unsafe release after Ocon emerged side-by-side with Hamilton, forcing the Mercedes driver to cede him the position. Ocon received a five-second penalty for the incident, and having finished in 11th place with a queue of cars behind him the Alpine driver slipped […]
After Charles Leclerc and Ferrari utterly dominated the Australian Grand Prix to grab an early advantage in the 2022 Formula 1 season, Max Verstappen and Red Bull repaid the favour at Imola – profiting from both the sprint race format and Leclerc’s late error at the Variante Alta. F1 returned to Europe for the first […]
From 13th on the grid he jumped up to ninth on the first lap, later gaining a spot when Fernando Alonso retired. He moved up another place when he jumped Kevin Magnussen in the pits after being among the first to switch to slicks, leaving him in seventh for much of the race. He gained […]
Leclerc had looked on course for a guaranteed third place towards the end of Sunday’s race at Imola, with Red Bull duo Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez in front. However, on lap 50, Ferrari elected to pit Leclerc for soft tyres in a bid to try to get the Monegasque at least one more position. […]
The Red Bull driver dominated the Imola weekend, taking pole position, the sprint race win and victory in the grand prix plus the bonus point for fastest lap, to take maximum points from the Emilia Romagna GP weekend. Verstappen’s title hopes were given a boost when championship leader Leclerc, who had been hunting down Sergio […]
The bouncing phenomenon has returned to F1 as a consequence of the new ground effect cars that have been designed to try to help improve the racing. While some teams have managed to get a better handle on the matter, Mercedes is one of the teams that has suffered the most from it. And beyond […]
Verstappen won the award following his 2021 F1 title triumph over former Laureus award winner Lewis Hamilton, who jointly won the 2020 edition of the awards with footballing great Lionel Messi. The Dutchman beat American football icon Tom Brady, Bayern Munich and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski, marathon running legend Eliud Kipchoge, swimmer Caeleb Dressel – […]
The seven-time world champion endured a hugely frustrating Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, as he was left a ‘sitting duck’ when he got trapped in a DRS train and ended up a lowly 13th. After the race, team boss Toto Wolff apologised to Hamilton over team radio for being given an “undriveable” car. Hamilton’s title chances […]
Alonso qualified sixth for Alpine on Friday in wet conditions, but struggled with tyre degradation in the sprint race, causing him to slip back to ninth place over the 21-lap event. It has left Alonso on the fifth row of the grid for Sunday’s main grand prix, which looks set to be hit by rain […]
The German manufacturer’s competitive struggles have hit a season low so far at Imola, with neither Lewis Hamilton or George Russell making it in to the top 10 in qualifying. The pair did not make much progress in the sprint race either, and are at risk of coming away from the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix […]