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
After qualifying, both Haas drivers were found to have a rear wing with a DRS clearance that exceeds the maximum permitted limit of 85mm on the outermost areas.The FIA’s technical delegate Jo Bauer flagged the issues after scrutineering, writing in a statement that “the uppermost rear wing element adjustable positionsContinue Reading
Leclerc claimed his third career F1 pole in Monaco after edging out McLaren’s Oscar Piastri in Q3 in Monte-Carlo, having topped FP2 and FP3 on his home streets.He also finished fifth in FP1, a session in which Mercedes led the way.Autosport understands the Silver Arrows decided to complete its main FridayContinue Reading
The Dane was heard to query a decision to pull out of a lap during Q2, in which he was slightly up on his delta from his opening outing of the session on the run up to Massenet.He was given the command to back out as early as Beau Rivage,Continue Reading
Monaco native Leclerc has been the driver to beat all weekend and that continued following a pre-qualifying engine change, as he steadily lowered the benchmark to ultimately beat McLaren’s Oscar Piastri to the top spot by 0.154s.Running its distinctive Ayrton Senna tribute livery this weekend, McLaren had been finding life difficultContinue Reading
The Aston Martin driver had set a time good enough for 13th on his final lap, but was vulnerable to progress from drivers further back, culminating in a drop into the bottom five. He couldn’t recover, having already pitted, and was out of time to set a final flying run.CitingContinue Reading
The Mexican driver managed to find his way into fifth after Saturday’s earlier FP3 session, although brusquely noted that his Red Bull was “nowhere” ahead of the run-in to qualifying.His team made duly set-up changes to the RB20, but these were not enough to help Perez progress any further intoContinue Reading
After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team’s qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don’t alter the statistics.When a driver can’t put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this willContinue Reading
Monegasque Leclerc dazzled throughout the Friday and Saturday sessions in Monaco, and built up his speed over the sessions to eventually land on a 1m10.270s – a tenth shy of Lewis Hamilton’s record pole time set in 2019.”It was nice, the feeling after a qualifying lap is always very specialContinue Reading
The two-day test will consist of a day of dry running on Tuesday with 2025 prototype slick compounds, before the track is made wet on Wednesday when the Italian tyre manufacturer tries out a new extreme wet compound. Ferrari’s regular race drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz are set toContinue Reading