He eclipsed chief 2022 rival Charles Leclerc in the dying moments of a session twice red-flagged, owing to crashes from both Mercedes drivers, who had been a credible pole threat. The Ferraris left the pits ahead of the Red Bull for the final 2m30s qualifying shootout. Leclerc set a personal best first sector, lost time […]
Perez made it through to the final session of qualifying at the Red Bull Ring with his final Q2 lap after his initial time was deleted when he exceeded track limits. But it emerged in the aftermath of the session that Perez appeared to have breached the track limits on that last lap as well, […]
Mercedes F1 driver Hamilton looked competitive through Q1 and Q2 on Friday evening, challenging Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc towards the top of the timesheets. But after setting a quick time through the first sector at the Red Bull Ring during Q3, Hamilton lost control of his Mercedes W13 through the left-hander […]
The pack headed out en masse at the start of the one-hour session – the teams’ only chance to get prepared ahead of Friday’s qualifying session and the two races to come. All cars ran the medium tyres in the early stages, with Alpine’s Fernando Alonso setting the first place benchmark at 1m09.438s. That was […]
The actions of some drivers during the Silverstone race was thrust in to the spotlight after what appeared to be some robust defensive moves was let go by the FIA stewards. On several occasions drivers were crowded out to the side of the track after attempting to overtake around the outside, such as Max Verstappen […]
Russell was caught up in the same sequence of events on the first lap at Silverstone, having collided with the AlphaTauri of Pierre Gasly to then rotate and hit Zhou’s car. Once Russell stopped at Abbey with left-rear damage, having witnessed the Alfa Romeo land between the tyre wall and catch fencing, he ran with […]
Mercedes has found itself unable to regularly compete with rivals Red Bull and Ferrari so far this season following the overhaul of the technical regulations for 2022. Both Hamilton and team-mate George Russell have struggled with a recurring bouncing issue on the car, leaving them unable to unlock the full performance of the W13 car. […]
Hamilton and Verstappen experienced a fierce rivalry through their fight for last year’s F1 championship, going wheel-to-wheel at a number of races that included a handful of collisions. The first major incident between the two drivers came at last year’s British Grand Prix, where they collided when battling for the lead at Copse on the […]
The Monegasque driver was left hugely disappointed after the British Grand Prix when a late call to pit team-mate Carlos Sainz rather than himself ended up costing him the chance of a podium finish. Having been left frustrated earlier in the race that Ferrari did not move Sainz out of the way after feeling he […]
The Spaniard says he plans to seek clarification with F1’s race director in the Friday night drivers’ briefing at the Austrian Grand Prix after he felt competitors escaped punishments for actions that he has been sanctioned for this season. As well as being “surprised” that Charles Leclerc escaped a penalty for what he felt was […]