After a surprisingly frantic Spanish GP, F1 completes its latest double-header with a return to Monaco where home hero Charles Leclerc will be looking to bounce back after retiring from the lead in Barcelona due to a Ferrari turbo and MGU-H failure. Leclerc’s disappointment was compounded by Max Verstappen recovering from a spin and a […]
Albon arrived in Spain looking to continue his excellent recent form for Williams that had seen him score three points in the previous three races, finishing ninth in Miami two weeks earlier. But after dropping out in Q1 on Saturday, Albon endured a difficult race on Sunday as he made four pit stops and failed […]
Verstappen was the last driver to go to the grid before the pitlane closed at 2.30pm – leaving his garage just seconds after Pierre Gasly of sister team AlphaTauri headed out onto the track. Sergio Perez in the other Red Bull had set off only slightly earlier. Red Bull has said Verstappen’s late arrival at […]
For after a season where a top five would have been something to be happy about at times, even through complete luck, to get there after charging up from 19th on the road said much about the progress made with the W13. As team boss Toto Wolff said on Sunday night: “With Lewis, we had […]
Four-time F1 world champion Vettel had his bag stolen through a car window, according to major Catalan publication El Periodico, from outside his hotel following Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix. But in an effort to try and track down his stolen bag using his scooter, Vettel used a GPS signal from the AirPods headphones that were […]
Leclerc had looked on course to take a comfortable victory in the Spanish GP when his car suddenly lost power on lap 27 when he was leading the race. Ferrari did not have any immediate answers as to what had gone wrong with the power unit on Sunday night, and wanted to wait for a […]
For once, Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix provided an engaging contest up and down the grid and just like last year it included developments that could be key to the outcome of the world titles. Max Verstappen led a Red Bull 1-2 ahead of Sergio Perez, but that summary barely scratches the surface of an […]
The Ferrari driver had moved into a commanding lead after Verstappen was caught out by a gust of wind at Turn 4, but his engine let go and forced him out of the race, which set up the Red Bull driver’s charge to the victory with an assist from team orders to get by team-mate […]
Leclerc had been dominating the Barcelona race from pole for 26 laps until his Ferrari engine gave out. The Monegasque driver was forced to park the car in the garage and thus recorded his first DNF of 2022. The setback not only cost him the race win, but it also made him cede the championship […]
Verstappen stormed into the championship lead after taking the victory at Barcelona while erstwhile tabletopper Charles Leclerc retired from the lead of the race with a power unit problem. But the early stages of the grand prix did not go to plan for Verstappen as an error at Turn 4 when he was running second […]