As a triple world champion Verstappen is used to being the focal point of attention on a grand prix weekend, but in Singapore the Red Bull driver caught the spotlights for the wrong reasons, caught up in a controversy with the FIA over swearing in the Thursday press conference.The sagaContinue Reading
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has asked for a “civilised” approach to the current controversy over swearing, in the wake of the FIA punishing Max Verstappen for use of a swear word.In Singapore’s Thursday press conference, Verstappen was reflecting on the previous race in Azerbaijan had described his car asContinue Reading
McLaren has admitted that it faces a dilemma over whether to introduce floor upgrades to its dominant MCL38 Formula 1 car.The Woking-based team was in a class of its own at the Singapore Grand Prix, with Lando Norris running unchallenged to take victory over Max Verstappen.McLaren’s form, which has helped itContinue Reading
Toto Wolff has conceded Mercedes “read the race wrong” with Lewis Hamilton’s strategy at the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix.Hamilton pulled out a stellar effort to turn his qualifying fortunes around and take third on the grid at the Marina Bay Circuit, lining up behind championship protagonists Lando Norris andContinue Reading
Fernando Alonso believes Ferrari should have won the Singapore Grand Prix having finished just behind Carlos Sainz.The Aston Martin driver picked up four points for eighth at the Marina Bay Circuit having undercut Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg at the pitstop window, who Alonso was in a train with as well asContinue Reading
There was a time in the mid-1970s when Rupert Keegan, who has died aged 69 after a long battle against cancer, was hailed as the next James Hunt. The similarities were obvious: they both started out with a habit of crashing Formula Ford cars, then rose rapidly through the single-seaterContinue Reading
The McLaren Formula 1 team has announced it has signed Red Bull’s chief strategist Will Courtenay as its new sporting director.Having initially joined the team as a systems engineer in 2003 under its Jaguar guise before moving to a strategy role once the team became Red Bull in 2005, heContinue Reading
Aston Martin managing director, commercial and marketing, Jefferson Slack has laid down the gauntlet with a direct target to be fighting for Formula 1 world championship honours by 2027.Having been on the grid in various guises since 1991 when racing as Jordan, the Silverstone-based team has transformed since a consortiumContinue Reading
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has conceded his team doesn’t have the outright speed to challenge McLaren for this years’ constructors’ championship, but hopes it will still be in the mix through consistency.While McLaren has been the form team in F1, taking over from Red Bull, Ferrari’s resurgence in recent racesContinue Reading
With Red Bull’s RB20 known to have weaknesses over bumps and kerbs, the mindset heading into the event had always been one of damage limitation.But things seemed even bleaker after Friday practice when both Verstappen and Sergio Perez seemed to be out of sorts with their cars.They were both unhappyContinue Reading