AGS Formule 1, which now runs a driving school and experience events, has launched the F1 ’90s Time Attack Mediterranean Challenge for F1 cars built between 1986 and 2000 and 1985-2000 Formula 3000 machinery.Four rounds are planned, starting this weekend at the Historic French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard.The entryContinue Reading
Red Bull already has Max Verstappen under contract for 2025, while Perez has impressed in the opening part of the 2024 season to ensure he is likely to retain his seat at the team.Perez stated on Thursday that, given the dynamic nature of the 2025 driver market, he expected “toContinue Reading
With F1 teams having done a lot of pre-event work in the simulator based on information from both Pirelli and the FIA, they were caught out when they arrived at the circuit on Wednesday by the visibly different track surface.While drivers said it looked like the track had been “painted”,Continue Reading
Sainz qualified fifth and team-mate Charles Leclerc seventh as the Ferraris struggled to get their tyres warmed up in a rainy end to Friday’s sprint qualifying.Leclerc went off when it started raining, bending his steering rack, which Sainz admitted could have easily happened to him too.”With the intermediate tyres we waitedContinue Reading
F1 has altered its sprint race schedule once again, with sprint race qualifying shifting to Friday and the sprint race moving to Saturday. The race weekend format then reverts back to a traditional schedule for grand prix qualifying on Saturday afternoon with the grand prix on Sunday. Here’s how theContinue Reading
First practice on Friday morning had to be red flagged after a fire erupted on the grass on the inside of Turn 7 at the Shanghai International Circuit.The same section later caught fire at the end of the first session of sprint qualifying, which led to the start of SQ2Continue Reading
Hamilton was one of the standout performers of a wet final qualifying segment on Friday afternoon, taking second behind McLaren’s Lando Norris.The seven-time world champion said his car “came alive” in the wet, but he’s realistic about its potential if Saturday morning’s sprint is held in dry conditions.”It was prettyContinue Reading
Having claimed every pole position so far in the 2024 F1 season, Verstappen looked strong favourite again after topping Q2 of sprint qualifying in the dry.But as rain fell at the Shanghai International Circuit it produced a major unknown given no driver had any wet running at a track F1Continue Reading
Rain made the already slippery Shanghai surface even more treacherous and Friday afternoon’s final segment of sprint qualifying was peppered with incidents, with world champion Max Verstappen going off twice and Charles Leclerc tapping the wall with his front wing.McLaren driver Norris bagged sprint pole, but not before his lapContinue Reading
Norris had his penultimate timed lap deleted for track limits at Turn 16, but his 1m57.940s follow-up ultimately proved unbeatable during a wet and slippery final part of sprint qualifying – which yielded multiple mistakes across the field.This lap was initially chalked off for track limits as well, suspected toContinue Reading