Nico Hülkenberg says that he did not expect to keep Red Bull driver Max Verstappen behind in the Sprint race for the Qatar GP. The German had a strong start to the weekend at the Lusail International Circuit. The pace in the sole practice session looked good. In the Sprint qualifying, Hülkenberg showed a great…
Despite finishing where he started, Kevin Magnussen had a very eventful Las Vegas GP on Saturday night. Points always seemed unlikely from the early stages. He slipped back to P15 in the opening 10 laps as he struggled with graining on the mediums. As he ran until lap 17 with Haas going for a one-stop…
Nico Hülkenberg says that he also ran into graining on the opening stint but accepted it at the F1 Las Vegas GP, extending the first two stints to create a tyre offset and pass Yuki Tsunoda late on. He ended up in eighth position and scored four more points in the championship. The German had…
The FIA has issued a technical directive outlawing the use of protective skids placed above skid blocks on F1 cars, a practice adopted by around half the grid. This directive, which comes into effect immediately, follows concerns raised by Red Bull, who identified the innovative concept as a breach of existing regulations, first reported by…
The shock departure of Guenther Steiner as Haas F1 team boss ahead of the 2024 campaign saw Japan’s Ayao Komatsu take the reigns. The 48-year-old has worked his way up the ladder in motorsport. Starting out as a performance engineer at Lotus, he worked his way up to the role of chief engineer, then went…
Nico Hülkenberg put together a steady race at the Mexico City Grand Prix to come home in the points for the third straight race, finishing ninth, although he lacked the of teammate Kevin Magnussen all weekend as he admitted on Saturday and Sunday to have an ideal feeling in the VF-24. It was a slight…
The German driver had a relatively positive Saturday in Mexico, advancing to Q3 showing at times a good deal of speed. In spite of the P10 start, Hülkenberg is not completely satisfied with his day, as he feels like he could have had a better performance had he been more in tune with his Haas…
Haas brought updates to the US Grand Prix, which appeared to advance the car in the competitive midfield hierarchy and, most importantly, put them ahead of their championship rivals RB as they scored points in the Sprint and GP itself. The pace of the car was further solidified during the Mexico GP Grand Prix qualifying,…
For Alex Albon and Oliver Bearman, the FP1 session came to a quick end with a collision in Turn 9 on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit. Albon was on the run-up to the high-speed sequence of Turns 7, 8 and 9, where Bearman was driving a Ferrari car at a considerably slower speed. The Williams…
Nico Hülkenberg started the US Grand Prix in P11, and crossed the line 8th, making it Haas’s highest finish in their home race. The great result for the American team was possible thanks to the German’s idea of a one-stopper mid-race. He explained the process behind the decision was the dirty air he would be…
