The team hopes the arrival of a fresh spate of parts at Silverstone might help to turn around its fortunes. Firstly, the changes made by Aston Martin for Silverstone are not on the scale of the developments seen in Spain. They are more about optimising the airflow conditions set out by those upgrades the team […]
The Italian squad endured a difficult first day of practice, with Gasly ending up 18th in the dry FP2 and team-mate Yuki Tsunoda only two places further ahead. Although Gasly says his afternoon running was not helped by car damage, he says that the AT03’s deficit to its rivals on the kind of quick corners […]
After a damp opening practice curtailed any sustained running, a dry second practice featured plenty of action with many teams testing out new parts, including substantial upgrade packages for Mercedes, Williams and Alpine. Sainz topped the second practice session for Ferrari with a best lap time of 1m28.942s to beat two of the home heroes […]
The past few days have been turbulent for Formula 1. The surfacing of Nelson Piquet’s comments directed at Lewis Hamilton given in an interview late last year, in which he used a racial slur, reignited the discussion surrounding racism and the push for diversity in F1, enacting proper change. The statements made by F1 and […]
Sainz set the pace courtesy of his 1m28.942s effort in the first representative dry running of the weekend to sit pretty by a little over a tenth ahead of Hamilton and Norris. Meanwhile, defending champion Max Verstappen ran fourth-quickest to pip his Ferrari title rival Charles Leclerc. After the changeable conditions of the first practice […]
The Maranello squad introduced in Canada a new rear wing aimed at boosting its straightline speed – an area where Red Bull has held the edge so far this year. Due to only having one of the new wing sets available in Montreal, it was decided that in the wet conditions of qualifying it should […]
Red Bull driver Verstappen did not take part in any direct interviews for season four of the Netflix series, which was released this spring and covered his championship victory over Lewis Hamilton. The Dutchman revealed he refused to conduct any interviews because the show “faked a few rivalries” and said back in March that he […]
Magnussen was ordered in to the pits early in the Montreal race a fortnight ago after the FIA felt that his damaged front wing posed a potential danger to other drivers. Having brushed against Lewis Hamilton just after the start, the state of Magnussen’s front wing was highlighted when Alpine’s Esteban Ocon complained over team […]
Piquet – who is the father of Verstappen’s partner, Kelly Piquet – used a racial slur to describe Hamilton in an interview given last year, the contents of which surfaced this week. It led to widespread condemnation from the F1 community over the past week as the majority of drivers and teams rallied around Hamilton, […]
While it’s obvious that the changes will have an effect on the external airflow stream, there’s also a considerable amount of work that’s gone on under the bodywork in order to accommodate them. It’s clear that there’s heavy influence in design decisions from both Ferrari and Red Bull, with the sidepods completely altered to take […]