In the final stages of last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, Gasly was asked to let Ocon by to repay the favour from earlier in the race, as the pair ran ninth and 10th. He initially refused to comply and only let Ocon through on the last corner of the final lap after repeated pleas by […]
Verstappen crushed the opposition in Suzuka by taking his 13th victory of the season from pole by 19.3 seconds over McLaren’s Lando Norris. The result secured Red Bull’s sixth constructors’ title on the home circuit of its power unit partner Honda and also moved Verstappen to the brink of a third straight drivers’ championship. The win came one […]
The McLaren driver was around five seconds behind race-leader Max Verstappen early in the race when the VSC was called out because of debris on the track after Perez had collided with Haas driver Kevin Magnussen. As Norris approached Spoon Curve, he closed in on the very slow Perez, who was returning the pits to […]
In the closing stages of the Suzuka race, one-stopping George Russell was running in fifth place, ahead of Hamilton, as the charging Ferrari of Carlos Sainz closed in on them from behind. While Hamilton was on fresher tyres, there was no immediate call for Russell to move aside for his team-mate – which prompted some frustrations […]
A slow-starting Perez hit an early setback after being caught up in a Turn 1 collision with Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, with prompted a pitstop for a new front wing. After being handed a five-second penalty for overtaking Fernando Alonso ahead of his safety car stop, Perez then damaged another front wing – and collected another […]
The pair were running close together on the track in fifth and sixth in the closing stages of the Suzuka race as the fast-charging Sainz closed up behind them. Hamilton, who was on better tyres, was eventually allowed past Russell, but was then immediately ordered to slow down to try to keep Russell within DRS […]
While it was business as usual for Verstappen after the Singapore blip, it was another nightmare outing for Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez who was involved in multiple clashes and ultimately retired from the race. McLaren’s double podium, including a maiden F1 grand prix rostrum for Oscar Piastri, kept its current momentum up as it […]
The title puts Red Bull only one behind Lotus and two behind McLaren and Mercedes on the all-time list, as Verstappen produced a dominant performance to move himself to the cusp of the drivers’ crown. Joining Martyn Lee is Sam Hall, and from trackside in Japan Jonathan Noble, to cover the main talking points from […]
Gasly was asked to move aside and let team-mate Ocon through to take ninth place on the last lap at Suzuka, having earlier been gifted the position in a team order swap. At that stage of the race, Gasly was on fresher rubber and Alpine believed that if he was let through by Ocon he […]
Norris and team-mate Oscar Piastri finished second and third at Suzuka as McLaren scored its first double podium of the season. McLaren started the season with a pair of scoreless races but has since developed the MCL60 into what is more often than not the second-best car on the grid, behind only Red Bull’s constructors’ […]