Amazing rain rookie Albon had no clue when to change tyres!
By Alex Albon completed his first wet F1 race an impressive and career best sixth, but the Toro Rosso driver admitted that when it came to timing his pit stops in Sunday’s chaotic German GP, his inexperience left him lost at sea. After switching from wet tyres to intermediates after just handful of laps, like the […]
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Ricciardo reveals key event that led to Red Bull exit
Daniel Ricciardo says the prospect of losing long-standing race engineer Simon Rennie at Red Bull was a key factor in deciding the Aussie to move from the Milton Keynes-based outfit to Renault. Ricciardo spent the first half of the 2018 season mulling his future, weighing extending his stay at Red Bull or moving on to […]
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Brown on 2021 rules: F1 needs “to get the show on the road”
McLaren boss Zak Brown says Formula 1 needs to lay down the law when it comes to the sport’s 2021 regulations, insisting the sport will never end up with the “perfect rules”. F1, the FIA and the teams agreed to push back on a June deadline to freeze Grand Prix racing’s future regulations, allowing discussions […]
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Hamilton claims sixth Silverstone win in dramatic British GP
Lewis Hamilton succeeded in taking his sixth home victory in an action-packed British Grand Prix, a safety car period helping him to a big victory over his Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. Red Bull’s Pierre Gasly claimed fourth place after team mate Max Verstappen clashed with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel mid way […]
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Alfa Romeo’s Giovinazzi falls foul of Hungary stewards
Just a week after being hit by big penalties at the end of the German Grand Prix, the Alfa Romeo team has fallen foul of the race stewards again in Hungary. This time it’s Antonio Giovinazzi who has been hit by official censure, for impeding Racing Point’s Lance Stroll at turn 5 during the first […]
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FIA adjusts DRS zones for Hockenheim
The FIA has modified the DRS zones for this weekend’s German Grand Prix at Hockenheim, leaving drivers with two activation points. In 2018, drivers could use their Drag Reduction System on the main straight, but that zone has now been discarded. Instead, an activation point located before Turn 1 will allow driver to deploy DRS […]
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Hulkenberg expecting to stay at Renault in 2020
Nico Hulkenberg says that he expects to sign an extension to his current contract with Renault to keep him at Enstone in 2020. “For me there is nothing set in stone but I think it is quite likely that I will remain with the team,” he told the press in Hockenheim on Thursday. The 31-year-old […]
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Haas: No guarantee Sochi form will carry over to Suzuka
Haas team boss Guenther Steiner says there’s no certainty the US outfit will uphold in Japan the form it displayed in Russia last time out, insisting its VF19 remains a “temperamental” car. In Sochi, Kevin Magnussen delivered a top-ten finish to Haas for the first time since last summer’s German Grand Prix, while Romain Grosjean […]
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Ferrari keen to validate latest SF90 updates in Russia
Ferrari’s current strong pace relative to its rivals may well improve even more thanks to another series of updates planned by the Italian outfit in Russia. The Scuderia has been on a roll since the end of F1’s summer break with back-to-back wins in Spa and Monza, courtesy of Charles Leclerc, and a hat-trick concluded […]
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F1 teams debate alternatives to grid penalty system
F1 teams are debating along with the FIA and Liberty Media the merits of a few alternatives to the sport’s current grid penalty system for exceeding power unit element limits. Potential substitutes to grid drops which have been tabled include time penalties, ballast and fuel restrictions Renault’s Cyril Abiteboul stated a case for time penalties, […]
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