RB man Tsunoda broke through the apparent barrier between F1’s top and bottom five teams by beating both Aston Martins in Melbourne qualifying. He also outqualified Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton by claiming eighth on the starting grid, just narrowly behind Mercedes’ George Russell.The Japanese driver couldn’t keep the faster Astons ofContinue Reading
Formula 1 got something of a pressure release moment with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz brilliantly winning the 2024 Australian Grand Prix and ending Max Verstappen’s latest dominant season start for Red Bull.The world champion was undone by a rare mechanical issue aboard one of Red Bull’s cars and Sainz picked upContinue Reading
Sainz took a remarkable victory for Ferrari on Sunday, just two weeks after undergoing surgery for appendicitis on the weekend of the Saudi Arabian GP, which he sat out.PLUS: Why Sainz could have won F1’s Australian GP even in a Verstappen head-to-headThat left the Spaniard with just a week to recoverContinue Reading
The Ferrari driver was forced to sit out the Saudi Arabian GP, where Oliver Bearman made a superb debut in his place, but Sainz was back at his best in Melbourne and won convincingly after poleman Max Verstappen retired with brake problems.Sainz did his job prospects for 2025, when heContinue Reading
The 2023 championship runner-up put in a controlled performance last Sunday in Portugal to score his first grand prix win since last year’s Thailand GP.With erstwhile championship leader Francesco Bagnaia crashing out in a controversial tangle with Marc Marquez, Martin now leads the standings by 18 points.Martin says defending theContinue Reading
Peugeot has revealed the heavily-revised 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar complete with a rear wing that will carry its hopes in the World Endurance Championship from next month’s Imola round. SourceContinue Reading
First images of a car known as the 9X8 2024 in a new livery reveal a conventional, if low-line rear wing on a car that retains the familiar look of the original version, which entered competition in the final three races of the 2022 season.The addition of the wing, whichContinue Reading
Perez started the Melbourne race in sixth after picking up a three-place penalty for impeding, and having lost a place to George Russell at the start he recovered to finish fifth.Having reported that he felt the balance of his car was not right, after the chequered flag the team discoveredContinue Reading
The Silver Arrows camp endured a torrid outing in last weekend’s Australian Grand Prix. The W15 suffered handling instability, Lewis Hamilton failed to progress into Q3 before retiring with an engine failure and George Russell crashed heavily two laps from the flag.While the car showed competitive pace on occasion inContinue Reading
Byron dominated Sunday’s race after setting the fastest time in practice on Saturday and earning pole position.He led on five occasions for 42 of the 68 laps, scoring his second win of 2024 by 0.692 seconds over Christopher Bell.Byron had lost the lead at the start of the final stage to RossContinue Reading