Max Verstappen has urged his Red Bull Formula 1 team to bring more performance to its car after being beaten to pole for the Spanish Grand Prix by McLaren’s Lando Norris.Verstappen and Red Bull headed to Barcelona as the pre-event favourites, but the Dutchman was pipped at the end byContinue Reading
McLaren is hoping its Team Hub – their hospitality building in the paddock – can be salvaged and repaired in time before the summer break after a fire broke out at the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix.The blaze is believed to have started between the two floors in the team’sContinue Reading
Lando Norris’s pole position for Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix, on a weekend when Red Bull had been expected to dominate, has triggered renewed hope of a super-close season.With the aerodynamic demands of the Barcelona circuit appearing to be the perfect stomping ground for the Red Bull RB20 to stampContinue Reading
Alex Albon will start from the pitlane for Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix after taking a new battery and control electronics outside of his allocation for the 2024 season.The Williams driver qualified 19th on the grid in a difficult session for the Grove squad, in which it locked out theContinue Reading
Potential pre-race showers, a powerful undercut and a soft tyre that is fast but fragile have opened the door for some strategy intrigue in Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix.Rather than the high degradation circuit pushing teams and drivers to go conservative with a boring one-stopper, what is unfolding at BarcelonaContinue Reading
The Swiss arbitration court mediating the dispute between the Haas Formula 1 team and Uralkali over the former’s decision to end their sponsorship agreement following Russia’s 2022 Ukraine invasion has issued a ruling.The two sides had been in dispute since March 2022, when it was announced Nikita Mazepin had beenContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes’ W15 2024 Formula 1 car has an inherent weakness on tyre performance that is only exposed when pushing at the limit in qualifying.Hamilton qualified third on the grid for Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona – his best result of the 2024 season so far.The seven-timeContinue Reading
George Russell says his Mercedes Formula 1 team is “the most confident we have been” in three years over its recent on-track performance.Russell and team-mate Lewis Hamilton locked out the second row in Spain, two weeks after Russell clinched his second career pole and the squad’s first podium of theContinue Reading
Lando Norris stood there looking up at McLaren’s iconic motorhome as smoke billowed out of the back of it and an acrid smell filled the air.He was dressed in a white t-shirt and black trousers and just his socks – in the haste to evacuate the building, he’d left hisContinue Reading
Lando Norris reckons eight drivers have the potential to win Formula 1’s 2024 Spanish Grand Prix, after a close qualifying fight where he pipped Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to pole.McLaren driver Norris took his second F1 career pole with a 1m11.383s at the end of Q3 at Barcelona, which putContinue Reading