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
Verstappen retired in the opening stages of the last race in Melbourne after his brakes overheated – with it appearing that the pad had jammed on to the disc because of an issue related to the caliper.While there has been no detailed explanation from Red Bull about what exactly happenedContinue Reading
The Red Bull driver followed the red flag-enforced hiatus, produced by Logan Sargeant’s crash, with a hot lap on soft tyres that eventually landed on a 1m30.056s to throw down the gauntlet for the rest of the weekend.In anticipation of any inclement weather at Suzuka later on in the weekend,Continue Reading
The seven-time world champion retired in the early stages of the race at Albert Park after his Mercedes engine shut down following sensors detecting an unspecified problem.The power unit was flown back to Mercedes’ engine facility at Brixworth for post-race analysis to get an understanding of what happened, with noContinue Reading
The F1 pack has been quizzed extensively about the incident late in the race last time out in Melbourne as this weekend’s Suzuka race gets underway, with a notable split in opinions amongst the racing cohort.Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg “wasn’t very impressed with Fernando’s tactics”, while Sauber racers Valtteri BottasContinue Reading
Bianchi suffered a serious accident in closing laps of the wet 2014 Japanese GP, and passed away in July the following year from his injuries.He had acted as a mentor figure for Leclerc, with the Monegasque regarding Bianchi as a “game changer” in his career. Their families were and remainContinue Reading
Fans around the world would like to see a close battle between Ferrari and Red Bull, especially after Carlos Sainz won the Australian Grand Prix in the wake of Max Verstappen’s early retirement, and we didn’t get to see what would have happened in a straight fight.The reality could wellContinue Reading
In a media call last week, Steiner suggested that prior to his departure, the wind tunnel numbers already suggested that the VF-24 would be competitive and that the team was “wrong” to take a low-key approach when predicting its potential form.The car has already proved capable of making Q3 andContinue Reading
The Spaniard appeared set to re-sign with Ferrari, but management then became aware that Lewis Hamilton was potentially available – the Briton’s latest two-year Mercedes contract actually only containing a fixed one-year term with an option for another season.With Ferrari president John Elkann and team principal Fred Vasseur able toContinue Reading