The reigning three-time world champion kick-started his title defence with a maximum score. He led from lights to flag plus earned the bonus point for recording the fastest lap of the race.Beating team-mate Sergio Perez by 22.4 seconds, with Carlos Sainz a further 2.5s adrift to finish third, Verstappen reckonedContinue Reading
Max Verstappen ignited his title defence in commanding fashion, guiding his RB20 from pole position to victory by 22.4 seconds over team-mate Sergio Perez, also nicking a bonus point for fastest lap.Sainz rounded out the podium a further 2.5s in arrears, the Spaniard having twice passed struggling Scuderia stablemate CharlesContinue Reading
Verstappen beat his Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez and Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz in the 57-lap race under the floodlights.Verstappen dominated from the start, while Perez battled his way through to second from fifth on the grid, passing Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and the Mercedes of George Russell after gaining a spotContinue Reading
The reigning world champion crossed the line with a 22.4-second gap over Perez to clinch his eighth successive F1 win, stretching back to his Suzuka win last year.Verstappen faced little in the way of competition, only having to contend with a brief play for the lead from Charles Leclerc into theContinue Reading
RB was tipped to be one of the surprise packages for 2024, having built on a strong end to its 2023 campaign under its previous AlphaTauri guise.And while Ricciardo had played down the hype around his rebranded team ahead of the Sakhir event, RB did prove to be a Q3Continue Reading
After a disappointing Bahrain test, fears that the team could have the slowest car in the 2024 field were realised in qualifying, as Pierre Gasly earned 20th and last position, a spot behind his team-mate Esteban Ocon.The weight of the car became a talking point in testing, with some observersContinue Reading
Norris and Piastri showed strong one-lap pace amid an extremely tight qualifying battle behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.But both drivers struggled to get their best laps together in Q3, which shuffled them down to seventh and eighth respectively. With such slim margins as the 2024 season gets under way, anyContinue Reading
The pace of the RB20 in the world champion’s hands throughout practice and qualifying has further highlighted the advantage he has over the opposition right now.But despite a pretty close fight for the top grid spots – where Charles Leclerc’s best Q2 lap would actually have been good enough forContinue Reading
The Mexican finished the Q3 session 0.358 seconds off Verstappen, with Charles Leclerc, George Russell and Carlos Sainz all just pipping him.Perez heads into this season knowing that he has to perform in order to retain his Red Bull seat for 2025 and beyond.Despite his campaign getting off to aContinue Reading
Russell demonstrated the potential of the new W15 by qualifying third for the season-opener in Bahrain, while Hamilton was left a frustrated ninth after set-up changes didn’t work in his favour over one lap.However, the seven-time world champion remains optimistic about the car’s potential for Saturday evening’s race.“Very, very toughContinue Reading