Verstappen logged a 1m19.718s on softs, having dispatched Lando Norris from top spot as the McLaren driver had been among the first of the frontrunners to switch to the red-walled tyre. Norris had gone just 0.008s faster than Verstappen’s medium-tyre effort of a 1m20.245s – but the Dutchman returned to the top on his first […]
The Ferrari Driver Academy member, who currently lies sixth in the Formula 2 standings, is the latest in a line of Maranello proteges to get track time with Haas. The team has been burned in FP1 before, with Antonio Giovinazzi crashing heavily as a rookie in Hungary in 2017, and again last year as a […]
F1’s car makers are currently working on the design of the new turbo-hybrid power units that will come into play from 2026. While the basic formula of the 1.6-litre turbo-hybrid ICE will remain the same, the power balance between combustion and electrical energy will shift. F1 is doing away with the MGU-H, and is aiming […]
Hamilton finished 2.2 seconds behind Verstappen in last Sunday’s main race in Austin, prior to being disqualified for an excessively worn plank. After both the sprint race and the grand prix in the US, Hamilton felt it had been a learning experience to see the RB19 at close quarters, and that he would “download” his […]
Leclerc’s SF23 was one of the four cars checked for plank wear after the finish and was found to be in breach of the regulations, alongside the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton, meaning the Monegasque driver lost his sixth place. Ferrari was caught out by Austin’s bumpy Circuit of the Americas, with the added difficulty of the […]
The FIA only measured the planks of four cars after the race, and found that those of Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were illegal, leading to the disqualifications of the two drivers. The cars of Max Verstappen and Lando Norris were deemed legal, but despite the 50% failure rate on the bumpy COTA track, the FIA […]
The number of fans and VIPs in the paddock in last year’s race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez led to security issues, with spectators crowding hospitality units and accosting drivers. Alpine’s Pierre Gasly noticed somebody had opened his backpack, while some of his peers had also flagged that the number of paddock dwellers had been […]
He’s expecting to take further steps in front of his home crowd in Mexico City this weekend. Perez and his engineers dug deep in the sim running as they tried to get him back to the sort of pace he showed earlier in the season after a run of frustrating weekends. The sprint race format at […]
Dennis will make his first official grand prix weekend appearance for Red Bull when he drives the team’s RB19 in FP1 at the Abu Dhabi season finale next month. The 28-year-old, who won the Formula E title last season with Andretti Global, has been a Red Bull simulator driver since 2018 and completed two test […]
The GPDA director said that one possible solution is to give those who transgress a penalty that involves positions rather than time. Russell has been guilty on several occasions of making a move that involves going off the circuit but which gains a crucial track position, and opens up the possibility of negating the five-second […]