PREMA Racing and Mercedes Driver Academy’s Doriane Pin (PIN) will be hoping to earn her second win of the season at the Circuit Zandvoort. The French driver, currently second in the drivers’ championship, will start the second race of the F1 Academy weekend off pole, ahead of Rodin Motorsport and Alpine Academy’s Abbi Pulling (PUL)….
The F1 Academy marked its halfway point at Circuit Zandvoort in the Netherlands with a rescheduled Race 1, where Abbi Pulling clinched her fifth victory of the season. Originally scheduled for the previous day, Race 1 faced an unexpected delay when rain loomed over the circuit just as the cars were lining up on the…
The MCL38 is clearly the car to bet on this race weekend, as both McLaren drivers managed to make an appearance in the top three of Dutch Grand Prix qualifying. While Oscar Piastri steadily built on his confidence throughout Q1 and Q2, a messy final run in Q3 ruined his chances of challenging his teammate…
The mixed weather conditions down at Zandvoort made this qualifying a gamble with every fast lap. Turn 9 and 10 were a key struggle commonly spread through the grid which affected the lap times. Alonso felt like the lap in Q3 where the wind decreased for the time being helped him start P7 tomorrow. “It…
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…
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….
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…
