The Gresini Ducati rider is quickly adapting himself from the Honda he rode for 11 years to the GP23 he has now, scoring podiums in four of the six sprints and twice in the previous two grands prix.But his last three weekend podiums have come after being forced to fightContinue Reading
Heavy rain prompted two red flag periods and led to a start/stop race, but van der Linde kept his calm and converted pole position into a dominant win over the Winward Mercedes of Maro Engel. Defending champion Thomas Preining ended up third in the Manthey EMA Porsche, making it three differentContinue Reading
Leclerc claimed his third career F1 pole in Monaco after edging out McLaren’s Oscar Piastri in Q3 in Monte-Carlo, having topped FP2 and FP3 on his home streets.He also finished fifth in FP1, a session in which Mercedes led the way.Autosport understands the Silver Arrows decided to complete its main FridayContinue Reading
The Dane was heard to query a decision to pull out of a lap during Q2, in which he was slightly up on his delta from his opening outing of the session on the run up to Massenet.He was given the command to back out as early as Beau Rivage,Continue Reading
Monaco native Leclerc has been the driver to beat all weekend and that continued following a pre-qualifying engine change, as he steadily lowered the benchmark to ultimately beat McLaren’s Oscar Piastri to the top spot by 0.154s.Running its distinctive Ayrton Senna tribute livery this weekend, McLaren had been finding life difficultContinue Reading
Hill, driving his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport, ended up on opposite sides of the Norfolk circuit to reigning champion Sutton’s Alliance Racing-run NAPA Racing Ford Focus ST.Five of the six drivers to make it into the pole shootout opted for slick Goodyear tyres when the sun suddenlyContinue Reading
The reigning world champion enjoyed an eventful early part of the 12-lap sprint as he battled back from being shuffled down to fourth.When KTM’s Brad Binder crashed out of the lead on lap seven, Bagnaia was released into first place and looked on course to end a sprint win droughtContinue Reading
The Aston Martin driver had set a time good enough for 13th on his final lap, but was vulnerable to progress from drivers further back, culminating in a drop into the bottom five. He couldn’t recover, having already pitted, and was out of time to set a final flying run.CitingContinue Reading
The Mexican driver managed to find his way into fifth after Saturday’s earlier FP3 session, although brusquely noted that his Red Bull was “nowhere” ahead of the run-in to qualifying.His team made duly set-up changes to the RB20, but these were not enough to help Perez progress any further intoContinue Reading
After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team’s qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don’t alter the statistics.When a driver can’t put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this willContinue Reading