Max Verstappen warned “both championships are not realistic” after Red Bull turned its once-dominant Formula 1 car “into a monster”.Verstappen struggled to qualify higher than seventh on Saturday and failed to make much progress on Sunday, moving up just one position to finish ahead of Mercedes man George Russell inContinue Reading
Oscar Piastri has conceded missing out on victory at Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix “hurts a lot” after Ferrari’s cunning strategic gamble led Charles Leclerc to the top.The McLaren driver squeezed past team-mate Lando Norris at turn four on the opening lap and set about building a lead to sealContinue Reading
Kevin Magnussen is set for a Formula 1 ban after reaching 12 penalty points on his superlicence following his Italian Grand Prix clash with Pierre Gasly.The Dane was hit with a 10-second penalty for contact with Gasly at the Variante della Roggia chicane, as the stewards had deemed him whollyContinue Reading
Charles Leclerc delighted Ferrari’s home crowd in a strategic triumph to beat Oscar Piastri to victory at the Italian Grand Prix, after hanging onto the tyres in a one-stop strategy.Leclerc managed to hold on from a rapidly closing Piastri, who had much fresher tyres thanks to a two-stop strategy, andContinue Reading
Fernando Alonso says Aston Martin is lacking pure performance which tyre savviness cannot make up for at Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix.Aston had its poorest qualifying result since the Austrian Grand Prix at Monza, with Alonso failing to reach Q3 in 11th place while Lance Stroll was out in Q1Continue Reading
Audi’s Formula 1 chief operating and chief technical officer Mattia Binotto admits that the current Sauber squad’s performances are something it “cannot accept”.While German manufacturer Audi has been working on building the foundations it needs for its official arrival as a works team in 2026, it has not gone amissContinue Reading
McLaren thinks it has understood why Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri made poor getaways in Zandvoort and is hopeful it has addressed the underlying causes for the Italian Grand Prix.Starting from first and third on the Dutch Grand Prix grid respectively, Norris and Piastri both made equally sluggish starts thatContinue Reading
Santander and Ferrari will conclude their sponsorship agreement at the end of 2024 as the reported $60million a year deal comes to an end.A three-year contract was agreed in 2021, renewing a partnership that had initially run from 2010 to 2017.As well as running its logo on the Ferrari F1Continue Reading
Red Bull remains baffled by the balance problems that left it struggling in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix but one thing it knows it got wrong was wing levels.While the rear wing concept that it has used at Monza looks intriguing – with its wavy top flap quite extremeContinue Reading
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen says he has never experienced the dramatic balance swing he suffered in Monza qualifying that saw him go significantly slower in Q3.Verstappen could only manage seventh in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, nearly seven-tenths behind McLaren’s polesitter Lando Norris, as wild car balance swings madeContinue Reading