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Ricciardo “had a very open chat” with Mekies following F1 Monaco GP to try and understand 2024 difficulties

After an impressive qualifying performance, Daniel Ricciardo will start Sunday’s race in fifth position. The Australian driver who criticised earlier in the weekend by 1997 World Champion, Jacques Villeneuve, was asked whether he was sending a message to the Canadian through his performance. Ricciardo replied that he had not heard Villeneuve’s comments but dismissed the…

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Verstappen: Closer grid is “good for Formula 1” after dead heat with Russell for F1 Canadian GP pole

Max Verstappen qualified second for the 2024 Canadian GP, setting exactly the same time of a 1:12.000 as George Russell, but the Mercedes driver had set his first and thus kept the first position in what was a very close qualifying session around Montreal. The three-time world champion wasn’t the happiest with the balance of…

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Russell: Looking at Hamilton’s data after FP3 “helped me a huge amount” to get pole in F1 Canadian GP

George Russell secured his second ever career pole position after coming out on top in a dead heat with Max Verstappen for the fastest time in qualifying – and he believes learnings taken from looking at Lewis Hamilton’s impressive FP3 session were key in helping him on his way to the fastest time. Russell had…

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IndyCar | Road America | Qualifying | Linus Lundqvist secures a first pole position in a wet and wild session

Qualifying at Road America saw pole number one for Linus Lundqvist in his young IndyCar career, the rookie displaying his impressive ability, adapting to whatever the weather threw at him throughout the session. Qualifying group one consisted of drivers trying to acclimatise to the conditions, slipping and sliding all over the painted white lines.  Despite…

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F1 | Canadian GP | Qualifying | Russell on pole as Verstappen sets exactly the same time in thrilling Q3

Following a dry FP3, dark clouds started to appear as qualifying got underway in Montreal. Q1 Stroll, Norris, Verstappen and Russell all took turns at the top in the first half of the session. Russell’s 1:13.242 had him a tenth clear of Verstappen. Hamilton backed up his teammate, 0.201s slower away. Norris, Stroll, Alonso, Sainz,…

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Yuki Tsunoda extends his contract with VCARB F1 for 2025

Another seat in Formula 1 is officially taken for next year, with Yuki Tsunoda’s freshly announced contract extension. The Japanese driver has been with the Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 team since his debut in the sport, this season being his fourth. As the statement claims, he is consistently “showing enormous progress to become…

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IndyCar | Road America | FP2 | Herta fastest in heavy rain with four red flags

Final practice got underway at Road America with the rain falling hard. Unsurprisingly, there was moments immediately. Kyle Kirkwood and Scott McLaughlin both ended up in the tarmac run off at turn 8 as they had snaps of oversteer in treacherous conditions. At turn 5, Colton Herta locked up and went straight on but continued…

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“Any team would be privileged to have Sainz” — James Vowles hopeful the Spaniard will join Williams F1 next year

Carlos Sainz is undoubtedly the hottest topic on the Formula 1 drivers’ market since it was announced that Lewis Hamilton is taking his seat at Ferrari next year. However, the options he seemed to have at the start of the season are slowly slipping through his fingers, with Sergio Perez securing a two-year contract extension…

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