Initial drizzle in the second sector during the race’s second half bloomed into heavier rain, which prompted a series of cars to make the leap onto the intermediate tyre in a bid to anticipate worsening conditions.Valtteri Bottas and Lance Stroll led the switch, with Zhou Guanyu and Alex Albon following Read more…
Sainz survived early contact with Alpine’s Esteban Ocon at the Nouvelle Chicane with minor front wing damage to keep the podium in sight through the opening half of the race.On lap 33 of 78, Ocon suffered a slow stop as he switched to fresh mediums, with Ferrari opting to pit Read more…
Russell looked like benefitting from a slow stop for Alpine’s Esteban Ocon and a late call to intermediates for Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz to climb to third as rain hit the principality in the final third of the race.But after his pitstop for intermediates on lap 55, Russell appeared to get Read more…
Polesitter Verstappen had built a comfortable lead over second-placed Alonso, but with rain looming the Aston Martin driver enjoyed a strategic advantage by starting on the hard tyre, while Verstappen began to struggle on worn mediums.As the rain eventually hit and then intensified, Verstappen pitted on lap 56 of 78 Read more…
Lewis Hamilton and George Russell bagged a 4-5 result to mark the debut of the heavily revised W14, which has now gained more conventional sidepods and new front suspension.While the positions were unchanged, Russell was hit with a five-second penalty for rejoining the track in an unsafe manner as he Read more…
Red Bull driver Verstappen surged to his third pole of 2023 by just 0.084s with a remarkable late effort to usurp Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, who had until the dying moments of the session looked set to claim his first pole since Hockenheim 2012. At the circuit where pole position has Read more…
Hamilton – who crashed in FP3 – got out of Q1 at the last minute with his final run, and the same thing happened as he made it out of Q2 with his last lap.In the final segment he earned sixth on the grid, with the potential to move up Read more…
The Ferrari driver appeared to slow in the tunnel section as Norris’ rapid McLaren approached from behind on a flying lap in Q3, forcing him to take evasive action.Leclerc had been set to line up third for his home race, but will now drop to sixth. Norris will start 10th Read more…
The Red Bull driver made a successful swoop for pole in the dying stages of Q3 to deny Alonso the chance of a first F1 pole since 2012, using the final corners to overturn a deficit of two tenths accrued in the opening pair of sectors.Thanks to the vastly improved Read more…
The Alpine driver stunned the paddock when he set a 1m11.553s effort with just a handful of minutes remaining in Q3 to take provisional pole.Ocon dropped to fourth following the final runs as eventual polesitter Max Verstappen, Fernando Alonso and Charles Leclerc all registered faster times. But he will be lifted Read more…