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After his shock demotion to Racing Bulls following two subdued performances in Red Bull’s main team on the opening two rounds of the season, Liam Lawson managed to get his best qualifying result of the season so far at Suzuka for the F1 Japanese GP, with 14th place on the grid – and crucially, ahead…
McLaren Team Principal Andrea Stella has stated he is “not surprised” by Max Verstappen’s miraculous pole position during qualifying for the F1 Japanese GP, despite feeling as though his team missed an opportunity. Qualifying at the Japanese GP truly came down to the last few seconds, as it looked almost certain McLaren’s Lando Norris would…
Esteban Ocon’s difficult weekend continued at the F1 Japanese GP, as the Haas driver was eliminated in the first qualifying session, starting Sunday’s race from a disappointing 18th position. New parts fail to deliver expected performance Despite introducing new upgrades for the Suzuka weekend, Ocon struggled to extract performance from his updated Haas, during the…
After struggling with a seatbelt issue through Q1 and Q2, Isack Hadjar stunned with a seventh-place in F1 Japanese GP Qualifying. His Q1 lap to be P12 was particularly heroic. Hadjar has been having a stellar start to the season with the raw pace in the VCARB02 that often finds him ahead of one of…
Pierre Gasly is starting P11 on the grid for the F1 Japanese GP. The Frenchmen clocked a time of 1:27.822 in Q2, missing out on the top 10 by 0.039s as Alex Albon narrowly took the final slot. However, he reflected that the qualifying session has made him slightly more optimistic for tomorrow’s race, stating…
McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri qualified P2 and P3 in their MCL39 cars for the F1 Japanese GP after a stunning lap by Max Verstappen put him on pole. McLaren Team Principal, Andrea Stella, sheds light on where the two McLarens can improve going forward in the season. Stella deems Norris’s struggle on…
What was supposed to be a normal qualifying session for Carlos Sainz ended up being a roller coaster. During the final minutes of Q2, the Spaniard caused an impending incident involving Lewis Hamilton, which the stewards took note of, and they ultimately handed him a 3-place grid penalty. An error that costs Sainz everything Carlos…
The F1 Japanese GP truly hasn’t gone according to plan so far for Alpine driver Jack Doohan. In fact, the Australian rookie driver had suffered an incredibly strong crash during yesterday’s FP2, his first on track session after sitting out FP1 in favour of Ryo Hirakawa. The matter strongly impacted his track time of the…
Williams F1 driver Alex Albon takes 9th in qualifying for the Japanese GP this Saturday. Albon capped it off in Q3 clocking a 1:27.615. During qualifying, Albon’s Williams was not exactly a stunner. Barely making it out of Q2 with only 39 hundredths covering himself and Pierre Gasly, a P9 is certainly something to write…
In a qualifying session that defied recent form, Max Verstappen delivered what Red Bull team principal Christian Horner described as “one of his best laps in qualifying ever” to secure a surprise pole position for the 2025 F1 Japanese GP at Suzuka. Yuki Tsunoda will start P15. “Completely against the run of form” The four-time…
