Why Imola could bring “more chaos” to the WEC
Following a season-opening race in Qatar that ran without interruption from safety cars, there is widespread expectation that Imola’s tight and undulating nature may conspire to produce incidents that the open, flowing nature of the Losail International Circuit helped negate.Imola, which has replaced Monza as the host of Italy’s WECContinue Reading
Alonso hit with penalty for Sainz clash in China F1 sprint
The Spaniard was locked in a tight fight with the Ferraris for third place in the closing stages of the Shanghai sprint event, as he battled rapidly degrading tyres.But as the pair swapped positions back and forth, they clashed at Turn 9 two laps from home in an incident thatContinue Reading
Norris had no reason to apologise for China F1 sprint showing, says McLaren
Norris had started from the front after a brilliant showing in Friday’s wet qualifying session, but it all went wrong at Turn 1 of the sprint race after he came off worse in a side-by-side tussle with Lewis Hamilton.Having lost ground away from the grid, he found himself on theContinue Reading
Supercars New Zealand: Heimgartner splashes to Taupo opener victory
The Auckland-born driver took the lead after the first of two pit cycles on a wet 3.3km Taupō International Motorsport Park.Heimgartner took advantage of Brad Jones Racing’s ace pitcrew, the nearly perennial winner of Supercars’ teams pitstop ratings, to jump past early leader Will Brown (Triple Eight Chevrolet), and held offContinue Reading
Hamilton: Norris would have been better off conceding in Turn 1
Norris had started Saturday’s sprint event in Shanghai from pole position but did not get away at the lights as well as fellow front-row starter Hamilton – who got inside him on the entry to the first corner.Hamilton hugged the inside line throughout the long right-hander, while Norris tried toContinue Reading
Leclerc: Sainz “over the limit” with defence in F1 Chinese GP sprint race
In a DRS train behind Fernando Alonso, the battle erupted when Sainz attacked the Aston Martin driver around the outside of Turn 7, which invited both Serigo Perez and Charles Leclerc into the fight.After Alonso picked up a puncture in contact with Sainz, as the pair touched in Turn 7Continue Reading
2024 F1 Chinese GP sprint results: Verstappen wins from fourth on grid
Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton grabbed the lead at the start, when pole-winner Lando Norris (McLaren) was slow away from the startline. After battling with Hamilton through Turn 1, Norris slid wide and off the track, tumbling a further five places.Promoted to third, Verstappen bided his time early on and then cruisedContinue Reading
F1 Chinese GP: Verstappen beats Hamilton to sprint win
The championship leader appeared out of sorts in the opening flurry of laps as he struggled to charge his battery with the selected hybrid settings, but a series of changes on his steering wheel appeared to rectify the issue.With greater forward momentum, Verstappen pulled himself out of third with aContinue Reading
Shanghai F1 grass fire mystery remains; emergency team on standby
The FIA began a detailed probe on Friday night after two separate fires on the same area of grass inside Turn 7 disrupted running on the opening day of track action.First practice for the Chinese Grand Prix on Friday morning had to be red-flagged after a blaze erupted on theContinue Reading
The Haas F1 updates that have bucked a sprint race trend
With so little practice running before parc ferme conditions beginning for sprint qualifying and the sprint itself, it is all too easy to get lost with the impact of any developments.This is why, for example, Aston Martin elected to fast-track its recent upgrade package to Japan because it did notContinue Reading