After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team’s qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don’t alter the statistics.When a driver can’t put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this willContinue Reading
Carlos Sainz scorched to pole for the Mexico Grand Prix with a 0.225-second advantage over Formula 1 championship leader Max Verstappen.Sainz was in imperious form throughout the session and found two times good enough for pole – opening his Q3 run with a 1m16.055s and improving on his final runContinue Reading
Oscar Piastri has conceded the error that saw him eliminated from Q1 for Formula 1’s Mexican Grand Prix was a “very poor mistake”.The McLaren driver went off the track at Turn 12 in the opening phase of qualifying, with his car bottoming out over the kerbs. His lap time wasContinue Reading
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