Oscar Piastri completed the final practice session ahead of the Mexico Grand Prix on top of the timesheets, 0.059 seconds clear of McLaren Formula 1 team-mate Lando Norris.The two McLarens had sat about three tenths clear of the rest of the field, led by early session headliner Carlos Sainz, asContinue Reading
The FIA is to revise the wording of its controversial racing guidelines after a meeting with Formula 1 drivers in Mexico in the wake of Max Verstappen’s tactics against Lando Norris at Austin.The governing body is understood to have accepted that changes to the guidelines were required to close aContinue Reading
The FIA is to revise the wording of its controversial racing guidelines after a meeting with Formula 1 drivers in Mexico in the wake of Max Verstappen’s tactics against Lando Norris at Austin.The governing body is understood to have accepted that changes to the guidelines were required to close aContinue Reading
Mercedes Formula 1’s 2025 debutant Andrea Kimi Antonelli said he drove “much calmer” in his second practice run in Mexico after crashing out in Italy.Antonelli wowed with his immediate pace on his grand prix weekend debut in Monza, but pushed beyond the limits at the Parabolica and crashed out afterContinue Reading
Alex Albon chose not to blame Oliver Bearman for their Mexico Grand Prix FP1 clash, and felt that Ferrari told its reserve driver too late that the Williams Formula 1 driver was approaching.Albon came across Bearman on the run-up to the high-speed sequence of Turns 7-8-9 and lifted off inContinue Reading
Ferrari’s senior performance engineer Jock Clear says that the team “hasn’t changed anything” despite murmurings over internal changes to its front wing to benefit from greater flexing.The Italian squad had been one of the teams to lodge a query with the FIA over the front wings of Mercedes and McLaren,Continue Reading
First practice for the Mexico Grand Prix saw five rookies take to the wheel, but the 60-minute session didn’t go smoothly for two drivers.Oliver Bearman took charge of Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez but was involved in a tangle with Alex Albon midway through the session.Albon wasContinue Reading
Red Bull Formula 1 chief Christian Horner has publicly acknowledged his team held preliminary talks with Fernando Alonso at the start of 2024 as both the Spaniard and the team weighed up their future options.Alonso signed a new contract with Aston Martin until the end of the 2026 season inContinue Reading
McLaren has said it disagrees with the FIA’s decision to reject its right of review request over Lando Norris’s Formula 1 United States Grand Prix penalty and wants to “understand how teams can constructively challenge decisions”.The Woking-based team had argued that the stewards made an incorrect call in handing NorrisContinue Reading
All in all, the opening day of track running at the 2024 Mexico Grand Prix was a frustrating affair for pretty much everyone – except, arguably, Ferrari.The Scuderia did lose much of FP1 when Oliver Bearman was driving Charles Leclerc’s SF-24, as Alex Albon crashed into the 19-year-old when comingContinue Reading