After officially withdrawing from F1 at the end of 2021, having propelled Max Verstappen to his first drivers’ title, Honda has continued to supply engines until the end of 2025 to Red Bulland RB (previously known as AlphaTauri) under its Honda Racing Corporation subsidiary – before Red Bull enters itsContinue Reading
Alonso was handed a post-race drive-through, which was converted into a 20-second penalty, for erratic and potentially dangerous driving in the closing stages of the race at Melbourne’s Albert Park.While duelling with Mercedes driver George Russell, Alonso lifted much earlier in the run up to Turn 6 to get a better exitContinue Reading
Steiner served as Haas team chief from its inception in 2016 until last winter, when his contract wasn’t renewed after the struggling outfit finished last in the 2023 constructors’ championship.Exclusive: Steiner opens up on what really happened at the Haas F1 teamBut the 58-year-old Italian went straight back into theContinue Reading
The Mercedes 2022 challenger was plagued by porpoising and bouncing while its W14 successor drew complaints from drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell over rear-end handling instability.That prompted Mercedes to change concept for 2024, fully abandoning a size-zero sidepod architecture in the hope of developing a platform that was moreContinue Reading
The Melbourne race turned out to a huge chance for F1’s bottom five teams, who would normally be finishing 11th at best on pace.Between the races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia only Haas had managed to score a single point in Jeddah.But after the retirements for Red Bull’s Max VerstappenContinue Reading
Komatsu admitted that the team had called Magnussen into the pits at the wrong time, losing the Dane two places in the process.Like in Saudi Arabia, Haas split the strategies of the two drivers, with Nico Hulkenberg running a long opening stint on the hard tyre before pitting for mediums underContinue Reading
Second-starting Sainz passed polesitter Max Verstappen around the outside on the second lap before the Red Bull driver retired with a fiery rear-right brake failure. That enabled Leclerc to complete a Ferrari 1-2.While Verstappen’s car was ailing from the race start, which made the RB20 feel as though the “handbrake” was left on,Continue Reading
Ocon had made his first tyre change on lap nine, just before the tear-off became lodged in a brake duct of his Alpine A524 to trigger overheating.At the time, he was in a fight with Kevin Magnussen, Alex Albon and Nico Hulkenberg, with both Haas drivers eventually finishing in the points. However,Continue Reading
Ferrari introduced a new but simplistic solution in Melbourne, as a winglet could be found mounted either side of the curved exhaust surround and rear wing pillar mounting on the SF-24.It’s interesting that we haven’t seen anyone place winglets here before, given it’s clearly allowed within that box region andContinue Reading
Still recovering from appendicitis surgery, Sainz won the Melbourne event after overtaking polesitter Max Verstappen on lap 2 as the Dutchman hit trouble with his brakes.After Verstappen retired on lap 4, Sainz comfortably had the measure of Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc to take his first win since last year’s Singapore GP,Continue Reading