With overtaking so difficult around the streets of Monte Carlo, the biggest advantage comes from track position.Poleman Charles Leclerc is the clear favourite to win if he can pull off a clean getaway against front-row starter Oscar Piastri and lead out of the opening corner.The relative ease by which driversContinue Reading
Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen were disqualified on Saturday after post-session examinations of their cars showed their DRS wings opened more than the 85mm that is allowed in the rules.Talking about how Haas had found itself in such a situation, team principal Ayao Komatsu said it mainly revolved around aContinue Reading
The Aston Martin drivers are not having a good time. It’s FP1 for Formula 1’s 2024 Monaco Grand Prix, at the Loews hairpin.Every time Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll squirt down the hill towards Autosport’s vantage point it happens. From our perspective on the outside of the corner, the greenContinue Reading
Long before the advent of Las Vegas or Miami, Monaco was F1’s marquee event that basked in its own glamour.Monaco, which first saw grand prix racing in 1929, and Formula 1 helped put each other on the map in the ’50s and ’60s. The grand prix built up a worldwideContinue Reading
Piastri ended up as Leclerc’s closest rival for pole in Monte-Carlo but fell 0.154s short as the home hero secured a third pole in four years at this famous street track.At the start of their respective best and final laps in Q3, the GPS data shows that Leclerc – inContinue Reading
The German manufacturer raised eyebrows at the start of the season when the front wing of its new W15 replaced its upper flap with a thin-strip of carbon fibre.With this strip hiding the rearward element of the wing element below, it ensured that the car fully complied with Article 3.9.1eContinue Reading
Speaking about the 0.078-second gap between them as they lined up fifth and seventh, Hamilton was eager to suggest that he never had any realistic chance of beating Russell because of their different-specification cars.“The team has worked really hard back at the factory to bring an upgrade in the lastContinue Reading
Verstappen struggled throughout practice over the many kerbs and bumps around Monaco’s tight street circuit.And while the Red Bull team turned around its practice woes last week in Imola, there was little that could be done to give Verstappen and team-mate Sergio Perez an RB20 that could beat Ferrari orContinue Reading
After qualifying the FIA’s scrutineering team found the DRS clearance on both Haas cars to be greater than the maximum allowed opening of 85mm.The matter was referred to the stewards, who confirmed the usual penalty of disqualification for both cars.Like its fellow competitors, Haas brought a new specification of rearContinue Reading
The Monaco weekend has been blighted by the banners that cover the Armco barriers around the Monte Carlo street circuit repeatedly coming away.In some areas, like the swimming pool, coverings have been rubbed away by cars repeatedly brushing the barriers.But, in Norris’s case, a whole section of the banners atContinue Reading