Verstappen romped home to a 13-second win over Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton in Shanghai’s 19-lap sprint, before going on to claim a dominant pole for Sunday’s proper grand prix as well.A long-time opponent of the sprint format, Verstappen said he was more pleased with his pole position than with his sprintContinue Reading
Following the first sprint race of the season, Verstappen did the double on Saturday with sprint race victory and grand prix pole position – marking Red Bull’s 100th pole in F1.Sergio Perez made it an all-Red Bull front row ahead of Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso who bounced back from retiringContinue Reading
Sainz went off at the final corner midway through the second part of qualifying which triggered a red flag stoppage, but the Ferrari driver was able to get going and complete an entire lap to return to the pits.With minimal damage, Ferrari repaired Sainz’s car and got him back intoContinue Reading
Immediately after the sprint race Leclerc said he wanted to speak to team-mate Sainz about his “over the limit” defensive driving when the pair appeared to clash at Turn 14.Speaking after grand prix qualifying later on Saturday in Shanghai, Leclerc stated he had spoken to his fellow Ferrari driver toContinue Reading
Just hours after Hamilton had delivered his best result of the season so far as he finished second in the Shanghai sprint, he came crashing back to earth as he failed to make it out of the first session of qualifying.Having braked too deep at Turn 14 thanks to theContinue Reading
Alonso impressed in Shanghai by beating the McLaren and Ferrari cars to third in Q3, the best-of-the-rest spot behind the dominant Red Bulls of polesitter Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.But Alonso admitted that he considered aborting the final lap that pushed him up the grid after slipping up through theContinue Reading
Verstappen will start ahead of team-mate Sergio Perez and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.Chinese Grand Prix grid: Verstappen on pole from PerezWhat happenedContinue Reading
The championship leader had rarely looked beatable throughout the session and ploughed a lonely furrow in pursuit of pole position, particularly as nobody had been able to beat his opening 1m33.977s effort – let alone his ultimate pole lap.This set up a thrilling battle to join him on the frontContinue Reading
The Spaniard was locked in a tight fight with the Ferraris for third place in the closing stages of the Shanghai sprint event, as he battled rapidly degrading tyres.But as the pair swapped positions back and forth, they clashed at Turn 9 two laps from home in an incident thatContinue Reading
Norris had started from the front after a brilliant showing in Friday’s wet qualifying session, but it all went wrong at Turn 1 of the sprint race after he came off worse in a side-by-side tussle with Lewis Hamilton.Having lost ground away from the grid, he found himself on theContinue Reading