Ricciardo qualified half a second off his RB team-mate Yuki Tsunoda in Q2 after he failed to find more lap time on his final run whereas most drivers around him did.Tsunoda went on to qualify ninth, while Ricciardo will have a mountain to climb to score points in Saturday night’sContinue Reading
Maini started the feature race from pole position and with two points in his pocket, by virtue of Oliver Bearman’s withdrawal from the weekend in order to replace Carlos Sainz at the Ferrari Formula 1 outfit with the Spaniard rendered unfit through appendicitis.While the Invicta driver made a perfect start,Continue Reading
Bearman was called in after Sainz was ruled out of the rest of the Jeddah event due to appendicitis, with the Spaniard requiring surgery.The 18-year-old had to abandon his Prema F2 seat, having secured pole position for Saturday’s feature race, and only had FP3 in which to find his feetContinue Reading
Andretti Global driver Jamie Chadwick is adamant that podium results are possible in her sophomore Indy NXT campaign, which gets under way this weekend in St Petersburg. Chadwick finished 12th in last year’s drivers’ standings and was the fourth-best-placed rookie, recording a best finish of sixth in Portland towards theContinue Reading
Alonso secured sixth on the grid for last week’s Bahrain Grand Prix, but slipped back to a distant ninth place in the race.He has again qualified well in Jeddah, earning fourth on a day that regular Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz was absent, and Mercedes struggled with bouncing.“We are surprised, weContinue Reading
Pramac rider Martin posted a sensational 1m50.789s flying lap on his first run in Saturday’s afternoon qualifying session to take the spot by 0.083 seconds over the Aprilia of Aleix Espargaro.The Spanish rider, runner-up in the championship to Francesco Bagnaia last year, was on course to better his time onContinue Reading
The ex-grand prix racer is a former team principal at the Venturi Formula E team, until he joined Mercedes at the start of 2023 as its driver development director.Since then, the Belgian has been tasked with looking after Mercedes’ young driver programme alongside Gwen Lagrue.However, beyond those responsibilities, it wasContinue Reading
On Friday it emerged that Marko was under investigation by Red Bull’s parent company for alleged leaks to the media relating to the investigation into team boss Christian Horner’s behaviour.Marko and Red Bull director Oliver Mintzlaff are set for key talks on the matter on Saturday ahead of the SaudiContinue Reading
But beyond the impact of what could be a significant change at the top, the development has shone a spotlight on what now appears to be a war for control of the squad.What originally started as the story of an isolated complaint by a female employee against the behaviour ofContinue Reading
Bearman impressed the whole F1 paddock by jumping into Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari in Jeddah on Friday and qualifying 11th, having come close to bumping Hamilton out of Q3.At age 18 Hamilton won the 2003 Formula Renault UK title, before making his F3 debut in the Macau and Korea events atContinue Reading