Following opening practice for the fourth round of the 2022 IndyCar season at Barber Motorsports Park, Rossi said F1’s arrival in Miami is “going to be awesome” and said that adding a Las Vegas race in 2023 was justified, which will see F1 expand to having three races in the US, plus the Canadian GP and the Mexico City GP also in North America.He went on: “I’m just excited for Formula …Keep reading
Two-time F1 world champion Alonso made his return to the series last year with Alpine after spending two seasons away from it to explore other racing categories.Alonso scored his first podium since Hungary 2014 at last year’s Qatar Grand Prix, and has been left frustrated by poor luck so far this year, believing he could have been in contention for pole in Australia.At 40, Alonso is the …Keep reading
Valtteri Bottas has shone after his switch from Mercedes and put pressure on new Silver Arrows signing George Russell on his way to fifth at last weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.The result puts Alfa fifth in the constructors’ championship after four races, with Bottas only four points behind Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ championship.The Finn’s Imola charge, which followed a hefty …Keep reading
AlphaTauri sits seventh in the constructors’ championship after the opening four races of the year, trailing McLaren, Alfa Romeo and Alpine in the midfield tussle.While it has scored points in each grand prix with one car, AlphaTauri has struggled to match many of its midfield rivals for outright pace at times.At Imola last week, Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly were both eliminated in Q1 …Keep reading
On an Imola weekend where Verstappen was the class of the field, Hamilton endured one of his most difficult weekends since he joined Mercedes as he qualified outside the top ten and came home 13th.That performance was in stark contrast to last year where Verstappen and Hamilton regularly battled for victories during a campaign where tensions erupted at times.Writing in …Keep reading
Albon was sidelined by a brake issue in qualifying on Friday, forcing him to start at the back of the field for the sprint race where he could only move up to 18th.But after Williams rolled the dice by making him one of the first drivers to switch from intermediate to slick tyres in the race, Albon was able to rise up to 12th, having also passed Pierre Gasly on-track.Albon spent the …Keep reading
From 13th on the grid he jumped up to ninth on the first lap, later gaining a spot when Fernando Alonso retired.He moved up another place when he jumped Kevin Magnussen in the pits after being among the first to switch to slicks, leaving him in seventh for much of the race. He gained another position when Charles Leclerc spun, but lost out to Yuki Tsunoda and the recovering Leclerc.The …Keep reading
Hamilton had got dumped behind Gasly after the mid-race switch to slicks, having lost some time when Alpine’s Esteban Ocon was released in to his path on the way out of the pits.But despite Hamilton appearing to have an overall pace advantage over Gasly ahead of him, the Mercedes driver was unable to find a way past the Frenchman as he did not quite have the straightline speed to drag past …Keep reading
Brawn originally wanted to hold six events this season, but after a debate with the teams about the potential cost of damage within the constraints of the budget cap it was agreed to stick with three sprints, as was the case last year.However sprints are one of the items on the agenda of Tuesday’s meeting of the F1 Commission, where an increase to six sprint race events for next year will be …Keep reading
A mechanical problem for Valtteri Bottas on the run out of the Variante Alta had left the Finn’s Alfa Romeo stationary at the side of the track, and brought out the warning flags for drivers.Verstappen was one of the first cars through there, and duly completed his lap to secure a session-topping time.While a long ago it may have been the case for drivers to lose improved laptimes …Keep reading