George Russell delivered a damning assessment of his Mercedes team’s performance in the F1 Imola Grand Prix – saying they were “dead slow” and lucky to finish as high as they did.Russell came home in seventh place while his team-mate Andrea Kimi Antonelli retired from the race, as the teamContinue Reading
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton said the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix was the first time he felt at one with his Ferrari Formula 1 car since his China sprint win.Hamilton’s shock pole-to-flag victory in Shanghai proved to be an outlier in what has otherwise been a difficult campaign which has not broughtContinue Reading
Andrea Kimi Antonelli was forced to retire from his first F1 race around his home circuit after his Mercedes had a throttle failure.The Italian pulled to the side on lap 46 when he was running in eighth place, having made his way up from 13th on the grid.Antonelli, who hasContinue Reading
Lando Norris climbed from fourth to second in Formula 1’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, but admitted that the leading Red Bull of Max Verstappen was simply too “fast” around the Imola GP circuit. McLaren had won five of the previous six races, but had to concede defeat to the Red Bull ofContinue Reading
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has won Formula 1’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola, interrupting a McLaren victory run by brilliantly snatching the lead at the start.Norris was second after passing polesitter Piastri late on, with two safety car periods mixing up the order.From second on the grid Verstappen attacked PiastriContinue Reading
Pirelli’s new C6 tyre made its maiden appearance as part of the race-weekend at Imola but left everyone, including the tyre supplier itself, baffled when competitors struggled to make it last over a single lap.The two Aston Martin drivers and Mercedes’ George Russell set their best laps in qualifying onContinue Reading
Haas has asked the FIA for written clarification after Oliver Bearman was kicked out of qualifying for Formula 1’s Emilia Romagna GP during the first session.The Brit looked to have posted a lap time that was sufficient to see him safely into Q2; however, it came at the precise timeContinue Reading
Yuki Tsunoda will start from the pitlane in F1’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix after Red Bull built up a spare chassis following his Imola qualifying accident.Heading into the fast Villeneuve chicane at the end of the first sector, Tsunoda lost control over his RB21 and made heavy contact with the insideContinue Reading
When news broke from Imola on Thursday that Max Verstappen had set a Nurburgring Nordschleife lap record testing a GT3 Ferrari a week earlier, the reaction was a mix of astonishment and scepticism.Read Also: Formula 1Why Franz Hermann? Verstappen shares details of Nurburgring GT3 test The idea that someone couldContinue Reading
A smart tyre choice helped Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll qualify a shock fifth and sixth for Imola’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. But how genuine is Aston Martin’s upgraded performance?Imola saw the introduction of Pirelli’s new-for-2025 C6 compound, an even softer tyre than its C5, which is in turn designed toContinue Reading