Verstappen urges Red Bull to find more pace as F1 rivals catch up
Max Verstappen has urged his Red Bull Formula 1 team to bring more performance to its car after being beaten to pole for the Spanish Grand Prix by McLaren’s Lando Norris.Verstappen and Red Bull headed to Barcelona as the pre-event favourites, but the Dutchman was pipped at the end byContinue Reading
McLaren hopes fire-damaged F1 motorhome will return by Belgian GP
McLaren is hoping its Team Hub – their hospitality building in the paddock – can be salvaged and repaired in time before the summer break after a fire broke out at the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix.The blaze is believed to have started between the two floors in the team’sContinue Reading
Why Spanish GP will tell us so much about F1 2024 title battle
Lando Norris’s pole position for Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix, on a weekend when Red Bull had been expected to dominate, has triggered renewed hope of a super-close season.With the aerodynamic demands of the Barcelona circuit appearing to be the perfect stomping ground for the Red Bull RB20 to stampContinue Reading
F2 Spain: Crawford victorious as Correa gets podium retribution
Jack Crawford became the 10th different winner of the Formula 2 season after executing an undercut strategy on championship leader Paul Aron in the Spanish feature race.Crawford proved his pace across the weekend to take his first win of the season from Franco Colapinto and Juan Manuel Correa, with theContinue Reading
Albon to start from Spanish GP pitlane after F1 power unit changes
Alex Albon will start from the pitlane for Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix after taking a new battery and control electronics outside of his allocation for the 2024 season.The Williams driver qualified 19th on the grid in a difficult session for the Grove squad, in which it locked out theContinue Reading
The “strange” tyre delta that opens door for F1 Spanish GP strategy intrigue
Potential pre-race showers, a powerful undercut and a soft tyre that is fast but fragile have opened the door for some strategy intrigue in Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix.Rather than the high degradation circuit pushing teams and drivers to go conservative with a boring one-stopper, what is unfolding at BarcelonaContinue Reading
Arbitration panel rules in Haas court battle with Mazepin sponsor Uralkali
The Swiss arbitration court mediating the dispute between the Haas Formula 1 team and Uralkali over the former’s decision to end their sponsorship agreement following Russia’s 2022 Ukraine invasion has issued a ruling.The two sides had been in dispute since March 2022, when it was announced Nikita Mazepin had beenContinue Reading
F3 Spain: Lindblad boosts title hopes with victory in milestone race
Arvid Lindblad became the first repeat winner in Formula 3 this season, registering a comfortable victory by four seconds from Christian Mansell as the current era of F3 clocked up a century of races.Following on from his victory in the season-opening Bahrain sprint race, Lindblad was composed at the frontContinue Reading
Hamilton: Mercedes still exposed by F1 qualifying weakness
Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes’ W15 2024 Formula 1 car has an inherent weakness on tyre performance that is only exposed when pushing at the limit in qualifying.Hamilton qualified third on the grid for Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona – his best result of the 2024 season so far.The seven-timeContinue Reading
Super Formula Sugo: Nojiri declared winner in rain-shortened contest
Tomoki Nojiri was declared the winner of a shortened Sugo Super Formula race that featured just two laps of green-flag running in treacherous conditions.The start of the race was delayed following a crash in warm-up for Naoki Yamamoto at the final corner, with the Nakajima Racing driver falling foul ofContinue Reading