“I really love this track,” says Franck Montagny of the Jerez circuit in southern Spain. “I remember my chief engineer in Renault’s test team was always saying ‘if there was a championship of 15 races in Jerez, you are world champion every year’.”The Frenchman never raced at the track heContinue Reading
After a challenging start to the campaign where Mercedes has struggled with its W15, duo George Russell and Lewis Hamilton ended up fourth and fifth quickest respectively in Suzuka’s morning free practice session, which offered the only representative running with FP2 taking place in damp conditions.Off the back of aContinue Reading
The American ran wide at the high-speed Dunlop Curve left-hander and having put his right-hand side wheels on the grass, he lost control and spun into the barrier.He hit with both the front and rear, damaging the suspension and cracking the gearbox of the FW46.Fortunately the chassis, which was shippedContinue Reading
There was a touch of inevitability. Red Bull’s significant Suzuka upgrade has not slimmed the RB20 as predicted, with rumours Ferrari was rushing its important Imola updates scotched too on what was overall something of a slow news day on Thursday.Then there’s the drivers involved. Alonso and Russell are ratherContinue Reading
Verstappen was fastest in Free Practice 1, lapping in 1m30.056s, while FP2 was blighted by rain showers. That was topped by McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, with a quickest time of 1m34.725s.Japanese GP FP1 results: Verstappen fastest from PerezWhat happened in Japanese GP Free Practice 1?Lewis Hamilton had just sent the quickestContinue Reading
Rain started sporadically falling in the paddock with under an hour to go ahead of FP2’s 3pm local time commencement, but this intensified with 15 minutes to go.It was therefore no shock when no cars headed out as FP2 did get under way, with few drivers even in their cockpitsContinue Reading
The Grove team still does not have a spare, as Sargeant is using the chassis that was crashed by Alex Albon in Melbourne and subsequently repaired.Sargeant lost control when he put his right-hand wheels on the grass at the high-speed Dunlop Curve lefthander, striking the barrier with both ends ofContinue Reading
While the revisions did not include any changes to its aggressive sidepod solution, which is a step above what any of its rivals have done so far, there was a notable tweak to the arrangements surrounding the cockpit.Red Bull has already raised eyebrows this year by having inlets in theContinue Reading
Ricciardo has struggled to match team-mate Yuki Tsunoda this year and has suggested that something might not be right with his package.Racing director Alan Permane has stressed that the fresh chassis was being constructed anyway, and hasn’t been built because of any doubts over Ricciardo’s current car.”For me the chassis isContinue Reading
The Japanese GP is being hosted in April, the earliest the event has ever been held after consistently being hosted later in the season. The race has been brought forward to be more logistically efficient along with the Chinese GP which takes place in two weeks’ time.The event coincides withContinue Reading