With Albon’s original car being damaged beyond repair following a crash in opening practice at Albert Park, and Williams having no spare chassis on hand, the team had to withdraw one of its entries.But rather than it leaving Albon on the sidelines, it took the controversial choice to give himContinue Reading
With Albon’s original car being damaged beyond repair following a crash in opening practice at Albert Park, and Williams having no spare chassis on hand, the team had to withdraw one of its entries.But rather than it leaving Albon on the sidelines, it took the controversial choice to give himContinue Reading
Heavy overnight rain left the Portuguese circuit covered in sand and dust for the start of Friday’s track action, with the first Moto3 practiced red-flagged and then canned due to the conditions.Things improved enough for the first Moto2 session to run to schedule, with the opening 45-minute practice for theContinue Reading
Vettel will take the wheel of the 963, which Porsche runs in collaboration with American powerhouse Penske, at a 36-hour test at MotorLand Aragon in Spain.The 36-year-old German has already turned his first laps of the prototype at Porsche’s Weissach base following extensive simulator running.“I’m looking forward to testing theContinue Reading
Albon suffered a big accident during Friday morning’s first free practice session, which prompted a chassis change for the Anglo-Thai driver.Because Williams didn’t have a spare chassis at its disposal, the Grove team has decided to let Albon use team-mate Sargeant’s car, meaning the American will sit out the restContinue Reading
A brief excursion at Turn 1 mattered little to Charles Leclerc. He was already on top of the Formula 1 pile in FP2, prior to his brief off towards the end of the session, having beaten Max Verstappen by almost four-tenths of a second.F1’s trip Down Under left many battingContinue Reading
The Silver Arrows camp arrived in Melbourne optimistic about taking a “huge step forward”, with Lewis Hamilton defending the W15 as an “amazing car” and not being an “evil sister”.This followed driver complaints that the team was falling back in the opening races of the new year, with Mercedes startingContinue Reading
The assessment comes from UK peer Paul Scriven, a Liberal Democrat, during a House of Lords sports-washing debate held in the chamber on Thursday. He says it was prompted by Domenicali failing to engage.Scriven is also a vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Democracy and Human Rights in theContinue Reading
Susie Wolff announced this week that she had lodged a criminal complaint against motor racing’s governing body in the French courts over unfounded allegations made against her last December.This relates to the FIA issuing a statement that it was looking into claims that Wolff, in her role as F1 AcademyContinue Reading
Leclerc was top in all three sectors on Friday as only a later Max Verstappen effort denied Ferrari a 1-2. The Dutchman had sat out the opening 20 minutes of the second session after sustaining floor damage late in FP1, which required a new floor to be fitted. But there was worseContinue Reading