After Carlos Sainz failed to make an appearance in the final segment, hopes of the Tifosi rested on Charles Leclerc as he continued to wrestle the unruly SF-24 in Q3. However, the best he could extract from the car was a lap time of 1:10:582, leaving him just over nine tenths behind pole man Lando…
George Russell experienced a challenging qualifying session at the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort. The Mercedes driver’s journey began with difficulties in Q1, where he struggled with sliding and slow corner entries, failing to be inside the top 10 initially. “It was just a relief to get through Q1, in all honesty,” Russell admitted, reflecting…
Sergio Pérez arrived from F1’s summer break decided to turn around the inconsistent results of the first half of his 2024 season. At the Dutch GP, Q1 in Qualifying was the first time that day that the Mexican’s RB20 went out on track, after a rainy FP3 that kept him inside the garage earlier that…
Round 1, Group 1 On the primary tyre, a 58.5462 from Graham Rahal saw him quickest, just under a tenth ahead of Scott Dixon. Lundgaard, Herta, Rasmussen and VeeKay completed the top 6. Toby Sowery on the reds was P7, less than 0.2s away from the benchmark time. Pato O’Ward was only 9th, with David…
After having been the protagonist in the last races of the category (winning 2/3), Lewis Hamilton came back from F1’s first summer break of the year to compete with a Mercedes in a race pace that promised. However, the 39-year-old driver did not find his way past Q2, after leading Q1 for a moment and…
Williams’ shocking day at Zandvoort ended with a disqualification for Alex Albon. Following Logan Sargeant’s massive crash in FP3, the Grove-based team only had one car in qualifying. The Thai driver had done an excellent job in the session itself, qualifying P8 on the grid, ahead of the likes of Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton….
In the last session before qualifying for the last road course of the season, Scott McLaughlin found himself on top with familiar faces joining him in the top three in what was an action packed practice session. Second was David Malukas who joined him on the front last weekend in St Louis, followed closely by…
Lando Norris scored the fourth pole position of his career and the third of the 2024 season at the Dutch GP, in dominant fashion over home favourite Max Verstappen, who was left three tenths down in second place, and half-a-second clear of his team-mate Oscar Piastri – but the Briton is not expecting to have…
Max Verstappen goes into Sunday at the 2024 Dutch GP looking to score a fourth consecutive race win at his home turf, but is well aware that he needs to keep expectations “realistic” after lapping over three tenths slower than pole-sitter and closest championship opponent Lando Norris in qualifying. The reigning three-time world champion had…
Formula 1 resumed activity after the first break of the year to race in Zandvoort. Ahead, a qualifying session that promised emotion thanks to the weather conditions that had already made an appearance in FP3, where an incident by Logan Sargeant (who drove two tires on the wet grass and destroyed the Williams) left the…
