In a close-fought final Q3 shootout at the Jeddah Corniche street circuit, Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr led the way after the first round of attempts before being demoted by team-mate Charles Leclerc, setting up a Ferrari front row for Sunday’s race. But Red Bull driver Perez surprised the Ferrari duo by dipping 0.025s below Leclerc’s […]
Made with the support of the Williams family, King Richard tells the story of how Richard Williams groomed his daughters to be tennis stars also while allowing them to grow up with a rounded education. The film was produced by Smith, who has already won a best actor BAFTA, and is a favourite to score another success […]
The Brackley-based outfit has faced a challenge in dialling out its car bouncing on the straights without compromising performance, with Lewis Hamilton lauding his third place in last weekend’s Bahrain season-opener as the “the best result we could have gotten”. Mercedes is adamant that once it has a better understanding of what it needs to […]
Bahrain GP winner Leclerc was fastest in FP1 and under the floodlights in FP2, but he hit the wall at Turn 4 in the latter and was forced to limp back to the pits, ruining his long run. Read Also: Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was second fastest on the day, ahead of the second Ferrari […]
Fresh from his victory in the 2022 F1 opener in Bahrain, the Ferrari driver topped FP2 by 0.140s from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen but Leclerc saw his session ended prematurely after he sustained car damage in a hit with the wall. Leclerc’s team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr suffered a similar fate and also missed out on […]
After an intense day triggered by a missile attack by Houthis on an oil facility near the Jeddah track during first free practice, the fate of the race hung in the balance late on Friday amid unease from drivers about the situation. During lengthy talks that stretched on for more than four hours, the drivers […]
A missile attack on an oil facility near the Jeddah circuit on Friday afternoon, coming less than a week after a similar assault at Saudi targets, prompted unease within the paddock about potential risks of the grand prix being a target. F1 chiefs held a series of meetings throughout Friday with the local authorities to […]
As F1 cars took to the Jeddah street circuit for the opening practice session, black smoke was seen drifting into the sky as the result of a large fire at an Aramco facility near the international airport. The Jeddah circuit is around 10 miles from the airport and the smell of burning oil drifted across […]
As his Woking-based team comes to terms with a disappointing season opener in Bahrain, Norris says it is facing up to a fundamental lack of grip from its new MCL36. With the car’s balance not being too bad, and there being no other fundamental vices, he says the team now knows where it needs to […]
It will be Hulkenberg’s fifth race of the COVID-19 era as a stand-in after his three starts with the then Racing Point team in 2020. An Aston Martin statement said: “Nico Hulkenberg will practice, qualify and race alongside Lance Stroll. “Despite lack of mileage in the AMR22 Nico coped well in Bahrain and we are […]