McLaren team principal Andrea Stella doesn’t think Lando Norris could have done much better than seventh in Baku’s Formula 1 race after being stuck in traffic.After a difficult qualifying in gusty conditions, Norris qualified a lowly seventh after looking fast all weekend, not helped by a slip-up in Turn 15Continue Reading
In finishing seventh, Lando Norris failed to capitalise on the crash which eliminated team-mate and world championship rival Oscar Piastri from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Of that there is no doubt.But could he have finished two places higher, but for the wheel gun issue which delayed his pitstop?Probably not, inContinue Reading
Max Verstappen is still not getting carried away by talk of a fifth Formula 1 world championship in 2025 after a remarkable turnaround for his Red Bull squad.The reigning champion has won the previous two grands prix in Monza and Baku from pole, leaving him 69 points behind leader OscarContinue Reading
Lando Norris has rubbished suggestions that he has missed an opportunity to significantly close down the gap to Formula 1 world championship leader Oscar Piastri in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.Norris finished seventh in Baku meaning he is now 25 points behind McLaren team-mate and title rival Piastri, who crashed onContinue Reading
Charles Leclerc was left frustrated after team-mate Lewis Hamilton failed to hand back a position at the end of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, although slow communication by the Ferrari Formula 1 team appeared to be the main culprit.Leclerc was fighting Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda for fifth in the closingContinue Reading
Few people would have had Max Verstappen, George Russell and Carlos Sainz on their bingo card for the podium positions in Azerbaijan.The strong winds blowing off the Caspian Sea had threatened to unsettle all the F1 cars during the weekend. But it was the winds of fortune that blew inContinue Reading
Oscar Piastri was left rueing a mistake-riddled Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend after the Formula 1 championship leader crashed out on the opening lap.The McLaren driver locked up into the Turn 4 barrier after an already poor start, as Piastri dropped from ninth to last having stopped at race start tryingContinue Reading
Max Verstappen dominated the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix in a flawless victory, while Oscar Piastri crashed out on the first lap, with Lando Norris only seventh to make a small gain in the title fight.Verstappen ran largely unopposed as a dramatic qualifying saw Williams man Carlos Sainz and Racing BullsContinue Reading
The procedure for applying penalties in Formula 1 is controversial enough – even before you get into the subject of what happens if circumstances mean a driver is unable to serve that penalty during the race.F1’s sporting regulations include a stipulation that when “a driver is unable to serve theContinue Reading
Championship leader Oscar Piastri has crashed out of the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix on the first lap after a poor start which has ended his 34-race point-scoring streak. Starting ninth on the grid, he had a horrific start as he jumped the lights before bogging the car down as heContinue Reading