A baking hot Sprint Saturday in Spielberg saw all the drivers start the 24-lap race on the medium tyres off the line – and Alex Albon started from the pit lane after changing his set-up during parc fermé. The start was aborted after the formation lap, despite no obvious danger in sight, which meant the…
McLaren will be in position to attack for Sprint victory in Austria as Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri start 2nd and 3rd on Saturday afternoon. The British driver did two laps on the mediums in SQ1 as his initial lap was not the best, although it was more than good enough for the next session….
Max Verstappen reigns supreme once again, putting his Red Bull on pole position for the sprint race, his second sprint pole in a row, and eighth in his F1 career. The Flying Dutchman beat McLaren’s Lando Norris to pole position by just under a tenth in a messy end to Sprint Qualifying. SQ1 The start…
Round 11 of the 2024 Formula 1 Season began with the first and only practise session of the weekend, and all cars immediately out on track apart from the Williams. Norris mentioned issues with his steering wheel, as the bets early time is set in 1:07.932s by Russell on hards, followed by Hamilton and Verstappen…
Following McLaren’s resurgence over the past 12 months, with the team now competing for race wins, team principal Andrea Stella is now looking towards the next step the team must take to solidify their position towards the top of the pecking order. With Lando Norris securing a now commonplace podium for McLaren, crossing the line…
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…
After the Spanish Grand Prix, Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur provided insightful commentary on the state of the team’s development and their recent performance compared to competitors. When asked about Ferrari’s current rate of development, particularly in comparison to McLaren, Vasseur disagreed with the assessment that the Woking-based team has got the jump. Ferrari had…
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…
After a good performance that secured him a second-place finish, Lando Norris shared his thoughts on the Spanish Grand Prix, highlighting both the successes and missed opportunities that marked his journey to the podium. “The race, not good enough, simply because we should have won today,” Norris stated bluntly. “I think we had the quickest…
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella revealed McLaren was planning to do an offset tyre strategy at the Spanish GP even if Lando Norris retained his lead out of turn one, as it believed tyre degradation was a more important factor than track position, as overtaking is now “easy” around the historically-difficult Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Norris…
