Aston Martin arrived at Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix with a substantial update that it hopes will cure some handling quirks that have hurt its form recently.A previous upgrade that was debuted at Imola delivered more downforce, but also made the car nervous on the edge, which was not idealContinue Reading
Lando Norris led a McLaren 1-2 in the final Hungarian Grand Prix practice session as Oscar Piastri fell just half a tenth away from his Formula 1 team-mate.Norris put together an impressive lap to wrest top spot from George Russell by almost 0.5 seconds, amid a second set of soft-tyreContinue Reading
Mercedes says Lewis Hamilton struggled to adapt to this current generation of Formula 1 cars and has been “working on how he drives”.The seven-time F1 world champion ended his 945-day winless run with a victory last time out in the British Grand Prix, giving premise to suggestions he has nowContinue Reading
Red Bull says “everything is open” with the driver line-up of its two Formula 1 teams after the summer break, as speculation continues to swirl around Sergio Perez.With recent disappointing performances having left Red Bull feeling that Perez’s form is “unsustainable” for the long term, the Mexican driver knows heContinue Reading
Lando Norris and McLaren led the way on pure pace on Friday at Formula 1’s 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix, but a deeper look at the long-run times suggests Red Bull possesses a race pace advantage at this stage.Red Bull also spent the day assessing the impact of its much-discussed engineContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes has resumed its current struggles in hot weather, labelling his Friday Hungarian Grand Prix practice sessions as “not a good day” as the team seeks to find a solution.Despite its recent success which has yielded two consecutive victories in Austria and at Silverstone, Mercedes expected toContinue Reading
The British driver was quickest in second practice from F1 world championship leader Max Verstappen, as Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc crashed early on which put him out of the session.With plenty of upgrades on show up and down the grid, Carlos Sainz put his Ferrari third on the FP2 timesheet withContinue Reading
Lando Norris put his McLaren on top of Formula 1’s FP2 times at the Hungarian Grand Prix, 0.243 seconds clear of Max Verstappen.After FP1’s scorching track temperatures, which neared 60C, the temperatures upon the Hungaroring circuit had started to fall below 50C for the start of FP2, ensuring the tyresContinue Reading
The Mercedes Formula 1 team says it is back where it needs to be after morning dramas triggered by the global CrowdStrike IT outage.A defect in a software update rolled out by the American cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike affected Microsoft Windows machines around the world on Friday morning.The problems causedContinue Reading
Carlos Sainz opened the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend with the fastest time in FP1, over a quarter of a second clear of Formula 1 championship leader Max Verstappen.Sainz posted a 1m18.713s amid a flurry of soft-tyre runs at the start of the session’s second half, beating an earlier benchmark setContinue Reading