At the last race in Miami, Alex Albon featured in the top 10 in practice but a problem with tyre temperatures in qualifying – specifically balancing the front and rear axles – consigned him to 18th on the grid. From there, the former Red Bull driver recovered to 10th, before gaining another position through a […]
Red Bull has so far appeared to favour a lower downforce approach to each track, maximising top speed at the expense of performance through corners. Ferrari, on the other hand, has until now opted for a higher downforce solution that means it loses out in the speed traps but is better in the turns and […]
Following the inaugural Miami GP, F1 reconvenes in much more familiar surroundings at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for the sixth round of the 2022 season. Max Verstappen maintained his streak of winning every race he has finished so far this year, and in the process trimmed Charles Leclerc’s world championship lead down to 19 points. […]
The Japanese manufacturer, which owns the Suzuka circuit where the race takes place, turned its back on grand prix racing because it felt it could not carry on amid the business challenges posed by a shift towards electrification in road cars. It subsequently agreed a deal with the Red Bull and AlphaTauri teams for them […]
The Spanish Grand Prix is one of the oldest in Formula 1 history and yet only 13 Spaniards have started a world championship race. Spain is one of the superpowers in motorcycle racing, but it’s a different matter when it comes to F1. Only eight Spanish drivers have scored points in the championship and just […]
The accident that befell the current Formula 1 world championship leader, which was caused by a brake issue, certainly stole the headlines. But there were also eight races, seven for grand prix cars dating back to before the Second World War and one for sportscars of the 1950s, and several past masters competing. The historic […]
With the Formula 1 season now in full swing, it’s around this time of year that the latest associated video game reveal becomes a highly anticipated inevitability. 2022 is no exception. Having been hands-on with the work in progress PC-build version of the now entitled EA SPORTS F1 22 we can safely say this: It’s another Formula 1 […]
As 20 of the finest athletes in the world, racing in the most international of international series, Formula 1 drivers have grown accustomed to a certain way of travelling. First class flights and private jets are the norm for many in F1, a world that is often (rightly) seen as elitist, detached from much of […]
In Imola Valtteri Bottas had a fire in Friday qualifying and missed the whole of Saturday’s FP2 session while his chassis was replaced, and then in Florida the Finn had a big crash in FP1 and again skipped FP2 as there was not enough time to repair the car. Despite the obvious compromises, Bottas finished […]
The Monegasque driver had been completing a demonstration run in the ex-Niki Lauda 1974 Ferrari F1 car on Sunday, when he spun at Rascasse. After suffering unexpected brake failure during his third lap on track, Leclerc was pitched in to a spin and struck the barriers backwards, dislodging the rear wing. Although he was able […]