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….
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…
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…
Alex Albon started from pit lane as Williams changed power unit elements on his car ahead of the Grand Prix. All 19 drivers on the grid picked softs for the start, with Albon going for the mediums. Lando Norris got this elbows out at the start, holding off Verstappen after the initial launch. However, George…
Ahead of the 2024 Spanish Grand Prix, Oscar Piastri was asked whether he thought that the weekend would be a test for his team given the aerodynamic differences between the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and those of the previous circuits. While the 23-year-old agreed that the weekend would be a test, he said he expected it…
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella believes Oscar Piastri is accelerating in his development as a Formula 1 driver after they started working on what he describes as a ‘couple of opportunities’. Piastri has shown improvements performances this year in race trim, bagging his first podium of the season in Monaco, and he drove a very…
McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella believes Mercedes had already shown flashes of potential and strong lap times with its W15 even before their strong showing at the Canadian GP, which he described as “not a surprise”. Speaking after the qualifying session in Montreal last week – which saw George Russell take Mercedes’ first…
The McLaren driver ended the Canadian weekend in P5 following a heated race that saw him in contention for what could have been a second podium finish in a row following his great result in Monaco. Canada wasn’t as sweet as the Principality to Piastri, who ended his race behind both Mercedes drivers after being…
