Last free practice session before this afternoon’s qualifying for the British Grand Prix – home of quite a few drivers – and weather certainly does not look like we are in the middle of the summer: grey sky, raindrops and only 11 degrees. On Friday it was Lando Norris who topped both FP1 and FP2…
After the contact between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris during the race in Austria last weekend, many opinions about it appeared. The ultimate truth is that the incident saw Norris DNFing due to damage and Verstappen dropping out of the lead to finish in P5 with a 10-second penalty for moving under braking, according to…
Following delays, the hybrid era of IndyCar started on Friday at Mid-Ohio as the drivers and teams took to the track with it for the first time under competitive conditions. Ahead of practice, it was confirmed that Marcus Armstrong, Pietro Fittipaldi and Felix Rosenqvist would be hit with 6-place penalties for Sunday’s race following unapproved…
McLaren is in high spirits as they topped both practice sessions on Friday with Lando Norris, in front of their home crowd. The Brit seems to have bounced back better than ever after that disappointing incident and retirement in the Austrian Grand Prix. He managed to end Free Practice 2 on top of the board…
Max Verstappen heads into qualifying day at the British Grand Prix with work to do with his RB20. Although Red Bull looked competitive on the long runs towards the end of FP2, the qualifying simulation on the softs was not great, with Verstappen finishing almost 0.7s slower than pacesetter Lando Norris. On a second push…
Cars are back on track again at Silverstone following the earlier, fragmented session. Leclerc’s Ferrari is the first car out on track, whereas Ocon posts the first time in 1:28.998s on mediums, with the best first lap attempt put in by Verstappen in 1:27.831s, ahead of Lando Norris and George Russell. Magnussen, Gasly, Perez and…
After a quiet practice session which saw AIX Racing’s Joshua Dürksen (DUR) topping the timesheet on a drying track, qualifying gets underway at the Silverstone circuit. Conditions in qualifying are significantly drier than they were during the practice session with a track temperature of 26.9 degrees Celsius. With a 40% chance of rain predicted for…
Christian Mansell posted the first competitive time of the session as he logged a 1:45:839. However, a 1:45.475 put Noel León over three tenths clear seconds later. Dunne, Mini, Goethe, Fornaroli, Mansell, Esterson, Van Hoepen, Lindblad, Tramnitz, Montoya and Browning completed the top 12 after 10 minutes. The Irish driver had been over 0.2s quicker…
Lando Norris topped first practice for the British Grand Prix, and Lance Stroll and his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri. Yuki Tsunoda and Piastri suffered disrupted sessions. Tsunoda spun into the gravel at Luffield, and Piastri had hydraulics issues. The first practice session got underway at a cloudy Silverstone after rain earlier in the day. Four…
The typical British summer conditions (moist, grey and quite cold) prompted everyone out on the wet tyres to start the only practice session of the weekend. After a Virtual Safety Car test a handful of drivers remained out to finish some laps. Williams junior Franco Colapinto was the first one to go to the top…
