Time for the Debrief – F1 2024 Pre Season Testing Day 3 Reaction
Day three of 2024’s F1 Pre-Season Testing is over, and as the teams go over the data, there is little time before Round One of the championship in just a week’s time. But what have we learnt? Is there a pecking order? And who’s in the best place to challengeContinue Reading
Shane van Gisbergen on Daytona debut: “I feel like I belong here”
Van Gisbergen, whose only previous NASCAR oval track experience came last season in a Truck race at the Indianapolis Raceway Park short track, had a rough debut in last Friday’s ARCA season opener, getting caught up in an accident on lap 3 of 83.He managed to eventually return to theContinue Reading
Shane van Gisbergen: ‘I was leaving too much space’ at Daytona
Xfinity Series driver Shane van Gisbergen describes what he learned during his first national series superspeedway race and what he can take into the Atlanta race weekend. SourceContinue Reading
BMW, Ferrari fined and docked GTD Pro, GTD Manufacturers’ points
The punishment for the violations related to performance was handed out solely to the manufacturers, with drivers and teams excluded and leaving the final results of last month’s season-opening race unaltered.Daytona marked the first event under IMSA’s new GTD Balance of Performance (BoP) system, which put it on the manufacturersContinue Reading
F1 testing results: Full 2024 Bahrain pre-season lap times
Sainz set the quickest time on the second of the three days of testing, before the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix at the Sakhir circuit on 2 March.However, he set his lap using the C4 Pirelli tyre, which is not available next weekend.His Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc was second quickest overall,Continue Reading
Hamilton: Mercedes “not yet where we want to be” with F1 car after Bahrain test
The German manufacturer has revamped its car for this year in a bid to dial out the obvious weakness that plagued Hamilton and team-mate George Russell throughout 2023.Although early running of the W15 appears to indicate that the Mercedes 2024 challenger has dialled out many of its vices – includingContinue Reading
Gasly: Alpine ‘doesn’t look great’ after Bahrain F1 test
The Enstone team has made a major concept change since last season and knew that it might take time to optimise.On overall times for the three days, Esteban Ocon and Gasly were 16th and 17th of the 20 drivers participating.While on balance the A524 is not actually the slowest carContinue Reading
Norris: No regrets over new McLaren F1 deal amid Hamilton Ferrari switch
Norris has committed his future to McLaren with what is being described only as a “multi-year” deal, which supersedes an existing contract that expired at the end of 2025.The announcement from McLaren arrived less than a week before the shock news broke of Hamilton having decided to depart Mercedes atContinue Reading
F1 testing results: Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc leads final day in Bahrain
Leclerc set the pace at Bahrain International Circuit in the last of three days of testing, beating Russell and Zhou Guanyu of Sauber.Once again, testing was disrupted by a broken drain cover running for a second day in a row during the morning session.2024 Bahrain F1 test, Day 3 …KeepContinue Reading
2024 Bahrain F1 test: Leclerc pips Russell to top final session
Leclerc’s team-mate Carlos Sainz had led the final morning session from Red Bull’s Sergio Perez before running was interrupted by a broken drain cover for the second day in a row.Because repairs halted the test for 1h17m, the decision was taken to cancel the planned one-hour lunch break and carryContinue Reading