The Red Bull driver secured his 34th career F1 pole and his first in Saudi Arabia with a flawless qualifying performance at the Jeddah Corniche circuit – both his Q3 laps were quick enough to bag top spot. Charles Leclerc split the Red Bulls to join Verstappen on the front row for a sixth consecutive […]
Charles Leclerc finished second for Ferrari, with Sergio Perez third in the other RB20 and Carlos Sainz’s illness-replacement, Oliver Bearman, taking 10th in the second of the Scuderia’s machines. Sauber’s Valtteri Bottas ventured out on track first, with plenty of attention already on Bearman – a crowd of cameras and photographers clustered in front of […]
The Mexican finished runner-up behind race winner Max Verstappen in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, but the 22.4 second gap to the front shows how much more progress he needs to make. While the team is confident that Perez is more at one with this year’s F1 challenger than last season’s RB19, he acknowledges there […]
While on a hot lap through the Jeddah Corniche Circuit’s snaking high-speed blasts, Sargeant had to take evading action to avoid a slow-driving Lewis Hamilton through Turn 10. As Hamilton moved over to the racing line, Sargeant had to jink right to cross the kerbs, labelling the near-miss as “dangerous” on the team radio. After […]
After an unusual season opener in Bahrain – where all the frontrunners bar the dominant Max Verstappen were hobbled to varying degrees – there was much to expect from Formula 1’s second 2024 round, taking place this weekend in Jeddah. At F1’s second night event in a week, there was again only one session really […]
McLaren MCL38 rear wing detail Photo by: Giorgio Piola McLaren has modified its rear wing for Saudi Arabia with a dipped section in the centre of the mainplane and upper flap present, while a similarly curved notch has been taken out of the upper flap’s trailing edge. Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber C44 rear wing […]
The flurry of early season action concludes with the Jeddah event this weekend, with opening practice topped by Max Verstappen before Alonso followed up to head FP2 in the evening. But once again the main focus has been off-track, with Red Bull’s Christian Horner saga taking a fresh turn as the team has suspended the […]
The phenomenon of boiling, twisting vortices being generated by winged F1 machines has been an issue through the generations. But in the championship’s moves to improve its entertainment spectacle, particularly over the last 20 years or so, the desire to clean-up outwash airflow generated by cars to allow following drivers to stay close behind a […]
The American outfit went through a demoralising 2023 campaign in which Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen couldn’t convert reasonable one-lap pace into race results, due to its car eating through the Pirelli tyres on most circuits. Haas never found a solution to raise its performance level and after finishing bottom of the constructors’ championship, a […]
Autosport sister website Motorsport-Total.com understands the manufacturer has completed the next stage of its Sauber takeover, with Audi board member Oliver Hoffmann appointed as a Sauber director above CEO and ex-McLaren F1 team principal Andreas Seidl. Audi announced its plans to enter a works team in F1 from 2026 at the 2022 Belgian Grand Prix […]