Red Bull produced one of the most dramatic turnarounds of the season in Qatar on Saturday when it went from a “terrible” car in the sprint to pole on the road in qualifying.World champion Max Verstappen had been left baffled by just how bad his RB20 had felt in theContinue Reading
A defiant FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has dismissed talk of turmoil within the governing body, and told Formula 1 drivers it is “none of their business” how he runs things.Ben Sulayem has found himself under the spotlight recently in the wake of a host of high-level departures from theContinue Reading
A defiant FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has dismissed talk of turmoil within the governing body, and told Formula 1 drivers it is “none of their business” how he runs things.Ben Sulayem has found himself under the spotlight recently in the wake of a host of high-level departures from theContinue Reading
Paul Aron secured his first Formula 2 victory of the season, benefiting from a penalty for on-the-road winner Gabriel Bortoleto in the Qatar feature race.Having started from pole, Aron was unable to topple his Invicta rival on the track, but a virtual safety car-related penalty enabled him to leapfrog ontoContinue Reading
Paul Aron secured his first Formula 2 victory of the season, benefiting from a penalty for on-the-road winner Gabriel Bortoleto in the Qatar feature race.Having started from pole, Aron was unable to topple his Invicta rival on the track, but a virtual safety car-related penalty enabled him to leapfrog ontoContinue Reading
Fernando Alonso says his unexpected Q3 performance in the Qatar Grand Prix shows why he was right never to doubt himself amid Aston Martin’s recent struggles.The Spaniard, who is Formula 1’s oldest driver, has endured a challenging run of races off the back of his squad’s backward step with aContinue Reading
Valtteri Bottas has hailed the effect of his Sauber team’s latest upgrades on car performance after qualifying 13th for the Qatar Grand Prix and finishing 12th in the sprint event – but acknowledged the improvement has come rather late for him.Bottas is out of an F1 race drive next yearContinue Reading
Either side of the Interlagos wildness, the other final sprint events of the 2024 Formula 1 season bear significant similarities that pile focus on Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and the Ferrari drivers. The key difference between Austin and Qatar, however, is that so far both McLaren and Mercedes have dominatedContinue Reading
McLaren says it cannot be happy with its current trajectory if it is to have any hope of targeting both Formula 1 championships next year.The Woking-based team could clinch the constructors’ title in the Qatar Grand Prix today, which would be the first time it has done so since 1998Continue Reading
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz was left frustrated after qualifying seventh for the 2024 Qatar Grand Prix, two places and two tenths of a second behind team-mate Charles Leclerc. The duo will line up for the race fifth and seventh, split by the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton, who had his own reasonsContinue Reading