Formula 1 championship leader Oscar Piastri believes McLaren has the pace to compete for pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix – as long as it can recover from a “very messy” Friday.Piastri escaped lasting damage after going straight into the tyre wall at Sainte Devote just 19 minutes intoContinue Reading
Charles Leclerc has made it a clean sweep of Friday’s F1 Monaco Grand Prix practice by heading Oscar Piastri in the second session.Last year’s Monaco GP victor Leclerc was just 0.038s quicker than McLaren’s championship leader Piastri, while Lewis Hamilton ensured both Ferraris featured in the top three.Piastri and thenContinue Reading
Toto Wolff has insisted that Mercedes will not repeat the error of exposing Andrea Kimi Antonelli to too many off-track distractions at Imola – which left him “toast” long before the Formula 1 race had even started.Bologna-born Antonelli endured his most difficult week since joining Mercedes in front of hisContinue Reading
Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll has been given a one-place grid drop at Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix after colliding with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in Friday’s opening practice session.Leclerc ran into the back of Stroll at the hairpin nine minutes in, after the Canadian slowly crossed towards the racing lineContinue Reading
Visa has furthered its partnership with the Red Bull stable, as its ‘Infinite’ branding is debuting on the cars of Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda at the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix.Already the title sponsor of sister team Racing Bulls, Visa has now extended its deal with Red Bull thatContinue Reading
Charles Leclerc has led the way in first free practice at F1’s Monaco Grand Prix, despite a late challenge from world champion Max Verstappen, after the Ferrari driver clashed with Lance Stroll earlier in the session.Leclerc set a 1m11.964s around the halfway mark that held until the end as VerstappenContinue Reading
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella disagrees with the notion that his team performed worse than expected in Imola, calling the comparison with a dominant Miami weekend like “apples and pears”.Oscar Piastri took pole in Imola ahead of Max Verstappen, but after a brilliant pass by the world champion Red bullContinue Reading
The unique nature of the Monaco Grand Prix circuit has prompted every Formula 1 team to bring a modified front suspension and brake duct package, along with its highest-downforce parts.Every year, teams have to bring a bespoke front suspension package to the Monaco round designed to cope with their full-lockContinue Reading
Yuki Tsunoda has admitted his huge Imola qualifying crash will have lingering effects, as he has to revert to a previous floor design at this weekend’s Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix.Tsunoda suffered an enormous accident last Saturday in Q1 as he overstepped the limit of the Red Bull in the fastContinue Reading
“A real strange one,” is how Autosport’s Nigel Roebuck opened his report for the 1982 Monaco Grand Prix, offering a fitting precis for a chaotic race with a chaotic finish.It is widely remembered as being the race that nobody wanted to win. Monaco, the jewel in the crown, the oneContinue Reading