Nicolas Lopes

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Stella: McLaren’s huge Miami F1 upgrades are worth “less” lap time than the package it brought to Austria in 2023

McLaren’s extensive updates to the MCL38 ahead of the Miami GP caught the attention of the paddock, after the team transformed its fortunes with an in-season package in Austria last year, there’s a possibility this could happen again in 2024 – and much earlier this time around. The extent of the upgrades means the car…

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Verstappen says money is not a factor for him to move teams in F1: “It’s all about performance”

Amid the tensions going on within the Red Bull team since Christian Horner’s scandal regarding his behaviour towards a female employee of the team became public earlier this year – and more recently the exit of the team’s Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey – there have been rumours that reigning three-time world champion Max Verstappen…

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Stella praises Norris’ evolution in both qualifying and racecraft in F1 2024: “Credit to him”

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has praised Lando Norris’s upturn in performance and consistency in both qualifying and race trim in the 2024 F1 season compared to 2023, pointing out how the young Briton is now capitalising on the areas where he needed to improve last season, especially during those critical qualifying laps. The Italian…

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Wolff and Horner clash over Verstappen possibly joining Mercedes F1: “There’s no ambiguity”

Toto Wolff and Christian Horner gave very different and conflicting views on what lies ahead for reigning three-time F1 world champion Max Verstappen. Whilst the Dutchman is locked in at Red Bull until the end of 2028 – as per his contract signed in early 2022 – question have arisen since team principal Christian Horner…

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Verstappen admits he could do “whatever he wanted” on his way to a comfortable F1 Chinese GP win

Max Verstappen has won again in Formula 1, this time at the 2024 Chinese GP, after an utterly dominant performance in which it never really looked in doubt that reigning three-time world champion would win the race. Despite many interruptions due to the safety car, the Dutchman controlled the race from the front, and admitted…

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Norris “pleasantly surprised” with P2 he “wasn’t expecting” at the F1 Chinese GP after Sprint race struggles

Lando Norris drove a phenomenal race to secure second place at the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix and his second podium of the season, keeping pace with Sergio Perez’s Red Bull and comfortably beating both Ferrari drivers to the flag. But after a difficult Sprint race which saw the Briton finishing down in sixth after running…

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F1 Chinese GP | Qualifying | Verstappen takes Red Bull’s 100th pole position in dominant fashion at Shanghai; Perez and Alonso complete the top 3

After winning the Sprint comfortably despite starting down in fourth position, Max Verstappen continued his domination of Saturday at the Shanghai International Circuit by leading a dominant Red Bull 1-2 in qualifying for the grand prix, over three-tenths clear of Sergio Perez and 0.488s ahead of Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin in P3. Q1 Before the…

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Hamilton: Ferrari F1 move doesn’t need “vindicating” despite Mercedes’ current struggles

Lewis Hamilton has expressed his frustration at the many – and repetitive – questions surrounding his blockbuster move to join Ferrari for the 2025 Formula 1 season. Given Mercedes’ ongoing struggles to get to grips with these ground-effect F1 cars since the start of 2022, many questions have been raised about that potentially proving it…

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