The home hero charged to his eighth pole position of the season in a drying qualifying at Zandvoort, topping Q3 by 0.537s from McLaren’s Lando Norris. George Russell squeezed into third place late on in the session for Mercedes, to push Alex Albon down to fourth on an impressive showing for Williams. Q3 was interrupted […]
The team has been without a technical leader since the December exit of Francois-Xavier Demaison, although Williams announced earlier this month that it had signed Alpine veteran engineer Pat Fry as its chief technical officer, but he will not start until the winter. The team is also still yet to appoint a technical director – […]
Protoypes will be run by Alpine and Red Bull in a test at Monza after the Italian GP, and by all teams on the Fridays of the Japanese and Mexican GPs The Italian company dedicated all its in-season slick testing up to July on its no-blanket tyres, which it hoped would be approved for 2024. […]
After Ferrari reserve Robert Shwartzman ran in the car during FP1 and classified 19th, Sainz clocked 16th in FP2. Team-mate Charles Leclerc finished 16th and then 11th. Both Scuderia drivers have called on the team to make major gains overnight, with Sainz supposing that Ferrari has again been caught out by a high-downforce track. He […]
Lando Norris nudged ahead of home hero Max Verstappen to secure FP2’s headline time at the Dutch Grand Prix, in a boisterous first day of Formula 1 action at Zandvoort. With passionate support for Verstappen emerging as early as Friday’s practice sessions as his orange-dressed fandom descended upon the Dutch coast en masse, the current […]
The Australian was taken to hospital having crashed behind Oscar Piastri at the banked Turn 3. An X-ray confirmed he had sustained a break to the metacarpal in his left hand. This came after the driver, who had locked the front tyres through the corner, was still holding the steering wheel as it snapped violently […]
Ricciardo was caught up in an accident of fellow Australian Oscar Piastri in the early stages of Friday’s second practice session. Moments after Piastri had crashed his McLaren in Zandvoort’s banked Turn 3, Ricciardo arrived at the scene and also hit the outside barriers while taking avoiding action. Ricciardo’s steering wheel snapped violently upon impacting […]
Mercedes got its 2023 season off to a slow start with a car that hadn’t progressed enough from last season. However, after a significant upgrade programme the team has been logging points on a regular basis, with Hamilton and team-mate George Russell sharing four podium finishes between them in the last six races. The team […]
Manufacturers and teams have flirted with aerodynamic wings in MotoGP for decades, but development really began in earnest in 2015 when Ducati introduced winglets to its GP15. Despite attempts to quell aero development by the organisers since then, it has now become the key battleground in MotoGP, which has led to a negative effect on […]
Mercedes currently sits second in the teams’ standings, 256 points behind dominant leader Red Bull, but 51 ahead of Aston Martin – despite only claiming five podiums so far compared to the green team’s six. Aston had been Red Bull’s closest challenger for much of the first half of the current campaign but has since […]