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…
First to hit the track in today’s rainy qualifying session, Lando Norris finished in P5 but will start P4 for the Belgian GP due to Max Verstappen’s grid penalty. Despite finishing in pole position, Verstappen will start the race on the sixth row, whilst his teammate will line up on the first, in P2. When…
After the contact between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris during the race in Austria last weekend, many opinions about it appeared. The ultimate truth is that the incident saw Norris DNFing due to damage and Verstappen dropping out of the lead to finish in P5 with a 10-second penalty for moving under braking, according to…
“It was Max’s fault,” remarked Johnny Herbert, the steward that issued the sanction for the incident between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris during the Austrian Grand Prix. The three-time world champion ultimately got a 10-second penalty and two penalty points on his super license after causing contact that resulted in both of them picking up…
The Austrian Grand Prix has been a mixed bag for Oscar Piastri who, after a P2 finish in Saturday’s Sprint Race ahead of his teammate Lando Norris, managed to set a lap time worthy of P3 in Grand Prix qualifying. However, his lap time was deleted due to a track limits infringement that dropped him…
Oscar Piastri finished P2 after the sprint race in Austria, ahead of teammate Lando Norris after a successful fifth lap overtake at turn 6 as the Brit lost out to Max Verstappen. Although he gained a place during the sprint, the Australian driver was left wanting more. Piastri thinks that he wasn’t able to maximise…
Shortly before the final practice session of the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix started, fire broke out at the McLaren hospitality suite. The whole team, including drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, had to be evacuated. With the emergency crew still working on bringing the fire under control three hours later, many worried that McLaren’s…
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri ended the Spanish Grand Prix in seventh place, two places up from his P9 starting position. Speaking after the race, Piastri admitted that while the team had been optimistic that he would be able to get past both Alpine drivers and compete with Mercedes and Ferrari, this had not come to fruition…
The Spanish GP Qualifying session begins – and tensions are high for Carlos Sainz, driving for Ferrari in front of his home crowd for the final time this weekend. The Spanish driver finished fastest in FP3, hoping to secure a podium position for tomorrow’s Grand Prix. The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya track temperature is 10 degrees…
After a race significantly influenced by an early red flag and tyre management strategies, Lando Norris ended the Monaco Grand Prix in fourth place, adding another twelve points to his tally in the Drivers’ Championship. Norris was asked about the role that strategy had played in the outcome of his race, with particular reference being…
