Mercedes revert to older-spec floor for F1 Azerbaijan GP Ahead of this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Pit Debrief has learned Mercedes will return to the floor they ran pre-sumner break as balance issues have affected the W15 in recent weeks. A tricky start to the season saw the team fail to finish in the top…
A week has passed since Charles Leclerc took a brilliant victory for Scuderia Ferrari at the Italian Grand Prix, his second win of the 2024 campaign. It’s also his second victory at Monza. Pit Debrief takes a look at the job done by the driver of car number 16, his race engineer Bryan Bozzi, and…
Christian Horner has praised lead driver Max Verstappen for his role in trying to help Red Bull Racing out of their current troubles. The Dutch driver has seen his lead in the Drivers’ World Championship reduced to 62 points following the Italian Grand Prix, on a weekend where they were clearly only the fourth quickest…
Alex Albon’s good run at Monza continues. Following a storming drive to P7 in the Italian Grand Prix last year where he held off the McLarens, he scored another two points on Sunday. On Saturday, he made Q3 in qualifying, beating Nico Hülkenberg in the final segment. With the German getting a poor start and…
Red Bull’s worst performance pace-wise in years came at the Italian Grand Prix last weekend. Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez could only manage P7 and P8 in qualifying, and it was barely any better on Sunday as they crossed the line in P6 and P8. George Russell’s lap 1 mishap gave the Dutch driver a…
Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix was a perfect example of mixed emotions. Kevin Magnussen scored a point with a strong drive, but he will miss the Azerbaijan Grand Prix because of a race ban as he accumulated 12 penalty points over the last year. The 31-year-old Danish driver tried to make a move on Pierre Gasly…
Thanks to a grid penalty for an unapproved engine change, Josef Newgarden dropped from his P2 position to start P11. McLaughlin got a perfect start, with Linus Lundqvist taking the high line to vault up into P2. Malukas, O’Ward and Herta (+5) completed the top 5 early doors. Conor Daly had an extraordinary start, moving…
Following the stunning news on the first day of February that Lewis Hamilton would be joining Scuderia Ferrari in 2025 on a multi-year deal, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team has announced that their 18-year-old junior driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli will partner George Russell at the Brackley-based squad next season. Antonelli’s junior formula record has been extremely…
It had been coming for some time. On Tuesday afternoon, Williams confirmed they would be replacing Logan Sargeant. Williams Academy Driver and F2 racer Franco Colapinto will be taking his place. The Floridan driver crashed heavily in the wet during FP3 on Saturday, destroying his car and the new updates the team had brought to…
Following a crash in final practice that saw him wreck his FW46 very badly at Zandvoort on Saturday, Logan Sargeant has been removed from his Williams F1 drive. Team boss James Vowles was clearly very unhappy with the Floridian following the big crash, destroying the new updates on his car. The relationship between the pair…
