Cole Custer: “It would be a dream” to drive for Haas Cup team
Custer’s return to the Cup Series at the Haas Factory Team would likely not be a surprise as his father, Joe, will manage the one-Cup, two-Xfinity car operation and Haas Automation has been part of the younger Custer’s entire NASCAR career as a sponsor.Custer, 26, has made no secret ofContinue Reading
Cole Custer: ‘It would be a dream come true to run that Cup car’
Cole Custer shares his thoughts on what it would mean to drive the Haas Factory Cup charter next season after the recent news of Gene Haas staying in the sport. SourceContinue Reading
Williams junior explains bizarre F2 qualifying moment after pole near-miss
Williams junior Franco Colapinto revealed that he veered off track on Barcelona’s pit straight in Formula 2 qualifying in his frustration at missing pole position by just 0.006s.Such were the fine margins in what was comfortably the closest session so far in 2024, the first season with a new carContinue Reading
What we learned from Friday practice at the 2024 F1 Spanish GP
Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes topped the times as practice at Formula 1’s 2024 Spanish Grand Prix got under way, while Red Bull and Max Verstappen appeared to be struggling.But, digging beyond the headline times in FP2 reveals that Verstappen and co are far from panicking – with a major set-upContinue Reading
Why Red Bull put Verstappen in a 2022 F1 car at Imola this week
Max Verstappen’s build up to the Spanish Grand Prix involved a detour this week as he conducted a private test in a 2022 Formula 1 car at Imola.After completing some promotional work in France on Tuesday, he travelled south that evening to Imola for some running on Wednesday in anContinue Reading
Why Mercedes new F1 floor did not appear on official FIA documents
The official FIA documents detailing the Formula 1 upgrades for the Spanish Grand Prix raised intrigue on Friday when Mercedes was shown to have brought no changes to its car.With the next European phase of the season kicking off as part of a critical run of five races in sixContinue Reading
F1 Spanish GP qualifying – Start time, how to watch & more
Hamilton was the fastest driver on what was a relatively straightforward Friday, with the only interruption coming when red flags were shown to allow marshals to recover some debris in FP1.McLaren’s Lando Norris had edged the opening session and ended the day third, just 0.055s back from Hamilton’s 1m13.264s effortContinue Reading
F1 Spanish GP: Hamilton fastest in FP2 over Sainz, Norris
Lewis Hamilton posted the fastest time in FP2 ahead of Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix as the Mercedes driver beat Carlos Sainz by a scant 0.022 seconds.The seven-time F1 champion vaulted to the top of the order amid the mid-session soft tyre running to displace home favourite Sainz, who hadContinue Reading
Alpine boss Famin ‘doesn’t mind’ Briatore’s F1 past after controversial hire
Alpine Formula 1 team boss Bruno Famin says he “doesn’t really mind about the past” after the team announced the controversial Flavio Briatore as its executive advisor.On Friday morning Alpine confirmed the news that Briatore had been brought in by Renault group CEO Luca de Meo as an executive advisor.WhileContinue Reading
Mercedes calls in police over anonymous Hamilton F1 sabotage email
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has revealed that the police are involved in investigating the source of an anonymous email accusing the team of trying to deliberately sabotage Lewis Hamilton’s car.An anonymous email, sent to the same list of F1 and media representatives who were forwarded alleged WhatsApp messages involving ChristianContinue Reading