For months a two-way intra-team title fight between Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris has seemed like a forgone conclusion to the 2025 season, but McLaren team principal has always refused to rule out defending champion Max Verstappen.He repeated that statement after Verstappen took a second pole position on the bounce,Continue Reading
“You can start dancing to see if it rains a bit harder, no?”Carlos Sainz sat within his car, confined to the garage, as he watched the sprinkling of rain sweep almost horizontally across the Baku City Circuit. The gusting winds carried the tiny drops with some force but, although itContinue Reading
British Touring Car Championship up-and-comer Daryl DeLeon pipped veteran three-time champion Gordon Shedden to pole position in a thrilling qualifying at Silverstone.Intermittent rain turned to steady drizzle for the final shootout and it was DeLeon, who was just nine months old when Shedden claimed his first BTCC race win, whoContinue Reading
It took almost two hours to decide the grid for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, thanks to the six red flags that contributed to a stop-start qualifying. While the Baku City Circuit is known for its ravenous walls, the greater quantity of spills largely demonstrated the difficulty of the conditions.Those sixContinue Reading
Esteban Ocon has been thrown out of Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying after the rear wing of his Haas didn’t pass the FIA’s deflection tests.After a chaotic qualifying session in the streets of Baku, Ocon’s rear wing was found to deflect more than the allowed tolerance of 0.5mm, withContinue Reading
McLaren’s Lando Norris doesn’t see his seventh place on the Azerbaijan Grand Prix grid as a missed opportunity to claw back his Formula 1 deficit to championship-leading team-mate Oscar Piastri.Piastri crashed out in Q3, which relegated the Australian to ninth on the grid. With Norris having to make up a 31-pointContinue Reading
“We didn’t have the right tyre on at the end.”That was a downcast Lewis Hamilton’s assessment of why he was eliminated from qualifying for the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The reasons for him being on the wrong tyre are mysterious.For this weekend, Pirelli has brought tyre compounds a stepContinue Reading
Christopher Bell is pleased to have won last week at Bristol Motor Speedway but there wasn’t a lot to take out of it to indicate anything meaningful about his chances the rest of the season.For one, Bell thinks he was kind of lucky to have a won a race thatContinue Reading
Reigning world champion Max Verstappen has taken a dramatic pole position for Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix in a chaotic qualifying in Baku, ahead of Carlos Sainz and Liam Lawson.Sainz looked set for pole after being one of the only drivers to get a dry lap in during Q3 sessionContinue Reading
British Touring Car Championship veteran Adam Morgan led the way in free practice for the penultimate round of the 2025 season at Silverstone.The red-headed Lancastrian completed two laps quicker than the best managed by anyone else to plant his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback clear of the opposition toContinue Reading