After he took the lead from Verstappen on the second lap with a pass around the outside at Turn 10, Sainz maintained the lead throughout the entirety of the race – and his victory in the 58-lap race was enshrined a lap early when George Russell crashed out at TurnContinue Reading
Verstappen started the Melbourne race from pole but couldn’t hold on to his lead for long as Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz swooped past on lap 2.The Dutchman immediately complained about the balance of his RB20, saying the rear started feeling loose.On lap 4 it became apparent why as his right rearContinue Reading
Heading into this season, the expectation was that a strong campaign for Ricciardo would make him the favourite to replace out-of-contract Sergio Perez alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull in 2025.However, the Australian has been outqualified on all three occasions so far in 2024 by RB team-mate Tsunoda – whoContinue Reading
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri qualified fourth and sixth respectively, but both will move up a spot after a three-place grid penalty for third-fastest Sergio Perez.While Piastri couldn’t wring an optimal lap out of his MCL38 in Q3, Norris’ four-tenth gap to Red Bull”s polesitter Max Verstappen is the smallestContinue Reading
Having looked good in Friday’s practice sessions, Leclerc was less happy in Saturday’s FP3 session and in qualifying he struggled with his front tyres.Having been fourth in Q1 and second in Q2, he tried a front wing change for his final run in Q3 in an attempt to find moreContinue Reading
Zhou qualified last at Albert Park on Saturday after he broke the left-hand side of his front wing on the Turn 10 exit kerbs on his final flyer, with the main plane cracking and the endplate eventually breaking off.At the time, Zhou was on course to be a contender forContinue Reading
Albon’s own car was badly damaged in a crash in opening practice on Friday, and he didn’t take part in FP2.With no spare chassis on hand, team principal James Vowles made the call for Albon to take over the sole remaining healthy chassis for Saturday, meaning Sargeant would miss theContinue Reading
Ricciardo was initially 12th in Q1 and thus safely through to Q2 before losing his lap time to a track limits offence, which dropped him down to 18th.However, even without the penalty he couldn’t match the pace of Tsunoda, who progressed through the three sessions to qualify eighth.The Australian, outqualifiedContinue Reading
The seven-time F1 world champion was eliminated in Q2 ahead of the Australian Grand Prix, having previously scored eight pole positions in Melbourne. He missed out on the top 10 shootout to team-mate George Russell by 0.05 seconds.Hamilton speculated the “spike” of promise shown in final practice earlier on SaturdayContinue Reading
Perez was on a warm-up lap for his first Q1 run when a hotlapping Hulkenberg encountered him in the middle of the racing in on Turn 13, Albert Park’s slow penultimate left-hander.The Mexican was only told very late by his race engineer that the Haas driver was behind him, withContinue Reading