After a tough qualifying in the rain yesterday for the Sprint, Sainz qualified P5 while Leclerc in P7. Ferrari decided to go on different strategies in the 19-lap race as Sainz started the on a new medium versus Leclerc started on 4-lap old mediums. Both of them gained a position on the first lap of…
The Haas of Kevin Magnussen posted the first time of the session as he logged a 1:41.422 on mediums. Home hero Zhou Guanyu was tentative on his first attempt, posting a 1:42.487. On his first lap, Max Verstappen clocked a 1:39.497, going fastest by over a second from Pierre Gasly. Unsurprisingly with surface changes and…
Co-author: Chiara Martin 2024 was a year that started with Lewis Hamilton taking everyone by surprise announcing he will be joining Ferrari next season, raising even bigger speculation around more than one seat. If Mercedes is left with one place to fill and Carlos Sainz is in talks to find a new team, things at…
Ever since the announcement of Lewis Hamilton switching to the Prancing Horse, one of the biggest talks of the paddock has been where will Carlos Sainz be for 2025. After having a stellar start to the 2024 season with a win in Australia and two podiums in Bahrain and Japan, teams took notice, and currently,…
F1’s return to China already has momentous moments ahead as it is Zhou Guanyu’s first time racing in front of his home crowd in F1 and also a 20-year celebration of the circuit. Whether it also needed to be an F1 Sprint format will be long debated but as far as the top three finishers…
F1 makes its first trip to Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix since 2019 next weekend. The pandemic that started in early 2020 led to the race getting cancelled from 2020 through to 2023. It will be the first time for the ground effect cars to tackle the circuit as well. With it being a…
The Ferrari driver was the author of a brilliant performance today in Suzuka, which led Sainz to his third podium of 2024. Starting from P4, he pulled off great moves at Spoon on both Mercedes drivers, as well as overtaking Lando Norris. Finally, he also passed Charles Leclerc on a one-stop strategy, taking the final…
Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur has praised Ferrari’s much-improved tyre degradation in the 2024 F1 season as a key factor contributing to their good result at the Japanese GP, with Carlos Sainz taking the final place on the podium, just ahead of his team-mate Charles Leclerc in P4. After a somewhat anonymous qualifying performance compared…
After an abysmal qualifying yesterday, which left him eighth on the grid, Charles Leclerc had a very well executed race which even brought him the driver of the day honours. Opting for just one stop after the restart, the Ferrari-driver managed to extend his medium tyres to jump both McLarens, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, promoting him to fourth at the finish. Which left him quite satisfied about the race.
Saturday’s qualifying resulted 27th front row for Red Bull Racing, so beforehand another walk in the park for Max Verstappen was anticipated. But with a 40°C track temperature, a lot warmer than during practice, tyre wear would be the big question mark for today’s race.
