After introducing a significant car upgrade package, McLaren dominated the Dutch Grand Prix straight out of the 2024 Formula 1 summer break. That’s a familiar story for the championship, but the details of this case are actually quite different.McLaren’s brake, suspension, wings and floor edge update introduced at Zandvoort wasContinue Reading
Max Verstappen is currently enjoying a period of F1 world championship dominance, winning the last three drivers’ titles.The Dutchman is also leading the 2024 standings and could claim a fourth straight crown which would make Verstappen just the fifth driver in F1 history to achieve said feat.So, who are thoseContinue Reading
In a year when so many Formula 1 teams have hit different upgrade problems, there is one common theme among them: car balance headaches.From Max Verstappen complaining his RB20 has turned into a ‘monster’, to Ferrari’s return of high-speed bouncing, to the Mercedes becoming nervous in qualifying and Aston MartinContinue Reading
Alpine expects to have a final decision on its 2026 engine partner in just under a month’s time, as Renault’s board presses on with its assessment of its Viry-Chatillon-based Formula 1 engine project.Renault had begun the process of developing a power unit that would satisfy the 2026 regulations, which featuresContinue Reading
“The future is his.”McLaren team principal Andrea Stella, again, saying exactly how it is. In this case, regarding the coming years of Oscar Piastri in Formula 1.Specifically, Stella was answering a question regarding how Piastri might react to the expected team orders push from McLaren to support Lando Norris’s 2024Continue Reading
Lewis Hamilton and George Russell are struggling to understand why optimal performance eluded Mercedes over the Italian Grand Prix, as Formula 1’s pecking order looks unpredictable.Hamilton topped both the second and third free practice sessions at Monza, as well as Q2, but he and Russell ended up qualifying sixth andContinue Reading
Ferrari is still seeking answers on whether its latest floor upgrades have turned its 2024 Formula 1 season around until heading to higher-downforce circuits.The Italian squad brought a new floor to June’s Barcelona round that induced bouncing problems in high-speed corners, which meant it had to revert to an olderContinue Reading
Williams Formula 1 team boss James Vowles says he was impressed with how the team’s rookie driver Franco Colapinto managed a mid-season debut in Italy.Williams academy driver Colapinto was promoted to a race seat at the expense of Logan Sargeant in between a busy double-header of Zandvoort and Monza, makingContinue Reading
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says that its Formula 1 results since the summer break have been impacted by its car being more “on the edge”.The German manufacturer had gone into the shutdown period buoyed by three victories in four races – with George Russell having triumphed in Austria and LewisContinue Reading
1m31.447s. The fastest lap of the 2005 Bahrain Grand Prix, set by Pedro de la Rosa, remains the official lap record at the Sakhir circuit – something the Spaniard will boast about whenever the opportunity arises. And it doesn’t take him even a second to name the McLaren MP4-20 hisContinue Reading