In the closing stages of the 2024 F1 opener, Tsunoda was hunting down Kevin Magnussen for 12th place on hard tyres while team-mate Ricciardo was closing in on both of them on softs.On lap 50 RB asked Tsunoda to concede position to his team-mate so that Ricciardo could attack theContinue Reading
George Russell led the Silver Arrows charge with fifth place in Bahrain as team-mate Lewis Hamilton finished the season-opener in seventh, the pair having started third and ninth respectively.Russell had climbed as high as second with an outside pass on Charles Leclerc on lap four to sit just 1.7s behindContinue Reading
The Ferrari driver was constantly locking up his front tyres throughout the 2024 F1 opener, as he dropped from second to an eventual fourth place.Leclerc, who had been expected to be Max Verstappen’s closest challenger, explained the issue struck from the opening lap before he was able to start managingContinue Reading
Horner has been the focus of a probe by Red Bull GmbH following claims made by a female employee.An independent barrister conducted an eight-week investigation into the complaints, which have since been dismissed due to no evidence of any wrongdoing.But the controversy stepped up again during the build-up to theContinue Reading
The reigning three-time world champion kick-started his title defence with a maximum score. He led from lights to flag plus earned the bonus point for recording the fastest lap of the race.Beating team-mate Sergio Perez by 22.4 seconds, with Carlos Sainz a further 2.5s adrift to finish third, Verstappen reckonedContinue Reading
Max Verstappen ignited his title defence in commanding fashion, guiding his RB20 from pole position to victory by 22.4 seconds over team-mate Sergio Perez, also nicking a bonus point for fastest lap.Sainz rounded out the podium a further 2.5s in arrears, the Spaniard having twice passed struggling Scuderia stablemate CharlesContinue Reading
Verstappen beat his Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez and Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz in the 57-lap race under the floodlights.Verstappen dominated from the start, while Perez battled his way through to second from fifth on the grid, passing Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and the Mercedes of George Russell after gaining a spotContinue Reading
The reigning world champion crossed the line with a 22.4-second gap over Perez to clinch his eighth successive F1 win, stretching back to his Suzuka win last year.Verstappen faced little in the way of competition, only having to contend with a brief play for the lead from Charles Leclerc into theContinue Reading
RB was tipped to be one of the surprise packages for 2024, having built on a strong end to its 2023 campaign under its previous AlphaTauri guise.And while Ricciardo had played down the hype around his rebranded team ahead of the Sakhir event, RB did prove to be a Q3Continue Reading
After a disappointing Bahrain test, fears that the team could have the slowest car in the 2024 field were realised in qualifying, as Pierre Gasly earned 20th and last position, a spot behind his team-mate Esteban Ocon.The weight of the car became a talking point in testing, with some observersContinue Reading