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F1 introduced all-new financial regulations for the 2021 season to enforce a new budget cap of $145 million per year for each team. Within the financial regulations, F1 lawmakers are permitted to sanction teams for breaches via financial penalties, minor sporting penalties, material sporting penalties or enhanced monitoring. Mercedes team… Continue Reading on Autosport
Nakagami was comfortably the top Honda rider throughout the Jerez weekend, his form boosted by a switch to an older chassis giving him more rear grip. The Japanese rider qualified fifth and fought his way through to fourth in the latter stages of the Jerez race, piling pressure on Petronas SRT’s Franco Morbidelli in third […]
Following a bright start to the 2021 campaign, which has included a podium finish at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Norris is currently sitting in third place in the drivers’ standings behind Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. But while McLaren does not appear to have a car that is capable of regularly beating the pace-setting […]
Despite finishing as top Yamaha rider in 2020 and second overall in the championship, Morbidelli remains on the 2019 ‘A-spec’ M1 he rode last season and has struggled. Morbidelli was able to get into podium contention in Portugal and claimed third in last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, but hasn’t hid his displeasure at not having […]
Red Bull has been left annoyed that penalties have cost Verstappen a race win, a pole position and a fastest lap point so far this season. The team’s motorsport advisor Helmut Marko suggested after the Portuguese Grand Prix, when a wide moment for Verstappen saw his fastest lap time deleted, that F1 needs to change […]
Having qualified on pole, the Frenchman was leading the Jerez race comfortably when suddenly his pace began to fade around the halfway point. After losing the lead to Ducati’s Jack Miller, who went on to win, Quartararo tumbled out of the points altogether and dropped to an eventual 13th place at the finish. Quartararo, who […]
Kubica, Alfa’s 2021 reserve driver, has already driven its C41 car at the Barcelona track at a shakedown event ahead of pre-season testing. Last month, Kubica also won the opening European Le Mans Series race of the 2021 season at the same venue, sharing an LMP2 ORECA 07-Gibson Louis Deletraz and Yifei Ye for the […]
Mir became the first world champion to begin his title defence season without a podium since Nicky Hayden in 2007 when he was cruelly robbed of second on the run to the line in the Qatar Grand Prix by Johann Zarco and Francesco Bagnaia. The Suzuki rider finally made it to the rostrum in third […]
Mazepin was handed a five-second time penalty for having impeded then race leader Perez as he came up to lap him, with the pair nearly colliding at Turn 3. The Russian had just emerged from the pits in front of Perez, and didn’t spot the Red Bull driver close up behind him. Perez had to […]
Mir failed to make it directly into Q2 from practice in the opening three rounds of the 2021 season, but managed to do so at Jerez for the first time. The Suzuki rider held a provisional front row spot at one stage of Q2, but faded to 10th by the chequered flag – albeit only […]