With Albon’s original car being damaged beyond repair following a crash in opening practice at Albert Park, and Williams having no spare chassis on hand, the team had to withdraw one of its entries.But rather than it leaving Albon on the sidelines, it took the controversial choice to give himContinue Reading
With RB having been relaunched this year under new management, owner Red Bull had hoped the team would deliver progress on track to fight nearer the front of the field.But a difficult start to the campaign, with RB fighting in the second half of the pack, has left both TsunodaContinue Reading
Heavy overnight rain left the Portuguese circuit covered in sand and dust for the start of Friday’s track action, with the first Moto3 practiced red-flagged and then canned due to the conditions.Things improved enough for the first Moto2 session to run to schedule, with the opening 45-minute practice for theContinue Reading
Vettel will take the wheel of the 963, which Porsche runs in collaboration with American powerhouse Penske, at a 36-hour test at MotorLand Aragon in Spain.The 36-year-old German has already turned his first laps of the prototype at Porsche’s Weissach base following extensive simulator running.“I’m looking forward to testing theContinue Reading
Albon suffered a big accident during Friday morning’s first free practice session, which prompted a chassis change for the Anglo-Thai driver.Because Williams didn’t have a spare chassis at its disposal, the Grove team has decided to let Albon use team-mate Sargeant’s car, meaning the American will sit out the restContinue Reading
A brief excursion at Turn 1 mattered little to Charles Leclerc. He was already on top of the Formula 1 pile in FP2, prior to his brief off towards the end of the session, having beaten Max Verstappen by almost four-tenths of a second.F1’s trip Down Under left many battingContinue Reading
The Silver Arrows camp arrived in Melbourne optimistic about taking a “huge step forward”, with Lewis Hamilton defending the W15 as an “amazing car” and not being an “evil sister”.This followed driver complaints that the team was falling back in the opening races of the new year, with Mercedes startingContinue Reading
The American joined the Woking outfit in 2016, initially as the executive director of the McLaren Technology Group before moving into his current position as the CEO in the middle of 2018.Under his leadership, McLaren has massively expanded its racing activities to add an IndyCar programme plus a Formula EContinue Reading
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was quickest overall in second free practice at Albert Park, finishing the session 0.381 seconds clear of world championship leader Max Verstappen.But while Red Bull thinks the single-lap form is clouded by teams running different engine modes, the squad thinks the Ferrari challenge is real based onContinue Reading
The assessment comes from UK peer Paul Scriven, a Liberal Democrat, during a House of Lords sports-washing debate held in the chamber on Thursday. He says it was prompted by Domenicali failing to engage.Scriven is also a vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Democracy and Human Rights in theContinue Reading