Toto Wolff insists Mercedes is reaping the rewards for taking the “risk” of promoting Andrea Kimi Antonelli into a Formula 1 race seat after the 18-year-old took pole position for the Miami sprint race.Antonelli has never raced in Miami before but quickly settled into the circuit and was at theContinue Reading
Mercedes Formula 1 rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli has taken his maiden sprint pole at the Miami Grand Prix, defeating both McLarens.Antonelli had looked rapid throughout Friday afternoon’s sprint qualifying session, and his late run of 1m26.482s was enough to withstand a last-ditch run by McLaren duo Oscar Piastri and LandoContinue Reading
Alpine Formula 1 team boss Oliver Oakes denied rumours that Franco Colapinto would replace Jack Doohan at the next round in Imola, stating “today, that’s the case” that Doohan would continue.Colapinto signed as Alpine’s reserve driver last January following his nine-grand-prix stint as a regular driver for Williams last year,Continue Reading
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says he has “no doubt” that his former driver Lewis Hamilton will recapture his “stellar” old form while racing for his new Ferrari squad.Hamilton moved to Ferrari for this season after 12 years at Mercedes, with a brilliant pole-to-flag sprint win in China punctuatingContinue Reading
Yuki Tsunoda has brought a “positive energy” to Red Bull, as team principal Christian Horner has praised the job that the Japanese Formula 1 driver has done at the team so far.Tsunoda was given a test at Silverstone in Red Bull’s RB19, although faced what he described as “classic BritishContinue Reading
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believes a proposal to change the energy deployment of Formula 1’s 2026 powertrains is “worth consideration”, warning of excessive lift and coast at certain races next year.Horner’s comments follow the F1 Commission meeting, where the teams met with the FIA and FOM last weekContinue Reading
Red Bull has commenced its incremental upgrade push to try and close the gap with the leading McLaren cars, starting with a revised floor design for the Miami sprint weekend, which Verstappen will trial.Teams are generally reluctant to bring substantial floor changes to a sprint weekend, with just one practiceContinue Reading
Austin may have hosted Formula 1 since 2012, but the real test for if the championship could finally break into American culture came a decade later when the decision was taken to race in Miami.The Circuit of the Americas stages the de facto United States Grand Prix and is oftenContinue Reading
McLaren’s championship leader Oscar Piastri has set the fastest time in practice for the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, which was red-flagged for the stricken Haas of Oliver Bearman.The sprint weekend’s sole practice session got off to a false start for last year’s maiden winner Lando Norris, who reported someContinue Reading
Haas driver Oliver Bearman has led calls for FIA to fine-tune its regulations around the new cooling vests drivers have at their disposal for hot Formula 1 races.In the wake of an extremely hot 2023 Qatar Grand Prix in which several drivers struggled with varying heat exhaustion symptoms, the FIAContinue Reading