The British driver and team-mate Lewis Hamilton have struggled to match the pace of Ferrari and Red Bull so far this season, with the W13 struggling with porpoising. Although its strong finishing record has helped it stay in touch with the top teams in the championship, it is well aware that it needs to find […]
Masi lost his job over the winter, in the wake of his handling of the safety car restart in the closing stages of last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Mistakes made by race control in only allowing a select number of backmarkers to unlap themselves, plus the decision to go for an immediate restart, opened […]
Yet instead it was a race that saw the momentum swing firmly in Leclerc and Ferrari’s direction as Verstappen suffered his second DNF in three races following another fuel system issue. Leclerc may have been out of reach for outright pace, yet Red Bull was still left licking the wounds of more dropped points, with […]
American interest in Formula 1 is on the up. The success of the United States Grand Prix in Austin has contributed to Miami joining the calendar, with Las Vegas set to make it three American races on the 2023 schedule. Michael Andretti also wants to bring his team to the grid. He faces some tough […]
After the frenetic DRS duels that defined the 2022 Formula 1 season-opening Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Grands Prix, the return to Australia after three years without a race was a comparatively humdrum affair. Polesitter Charles Leclerc took control to land the victory. The Ferrari charger launched cleanly to pull across the Albert Park circuit and […]
After running Ferrari close for third in the 2021 championship, McLaren has set several steps back under the new 2022 regulations and only managed to score six points from the first two races. But while McLaren failed to make it into Q3 in either race, in Melbourne Norris progressed to qualify fourth, with Ricciardo claiming […]
With Mercedes still battling to overcome the porpoising issues that have affected the W13 since pre-season testing, Hamilton wants the team to not waste a moment in working out how it can make progress. For while the good finishing rate of the team has kept it within touching distance in the championship fight, Hamilton is […]
Leclerc produced a crushing display in Albert Park as Ferrari comfortably had the measure of its rival Red Bull. The Monegasque driver took his second win of the season by 20 seconds on Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, after Leclerc’s nearest competitor Max Verstappen was forced to retire. Verstappen never looked like threatening Leclerc on pure […]
In the closing stages of the Melbourne race, Hamilton was starting to close in on team-mate George Russell, who had got ahead of him to run third thanks to a well-timed safety car. As the pair ran around unchallenged from behind, Hamilton said on the radio: “You guys put me in a really difficult position.” […]
During a safety car period in the Albert Park race, onboard footage from Mick Schumacher’s car showed the Haas driver making a dramatic swerve to the left on the main straight while trying to avoid Yuki Tsunoda, who had braked in front of him. The Japanese driver was in turn trying to stay clear of […]