Norris has said several times in recent races that he believes Alpine has made heavy weather of the fight that his McLaren squad and its closest rival are having over fourth place in the F1 world constructors’ championship.The Briton reckons that considering the pace Alpine has shown with its A522 Read more…
Palou will take part in FP1 at the United States Grand Prix, taking over Daniel Ricciardo’s car for the 60 minute session at Circuit of the Americas, while O’Ward will drive Lando Norris’s car in opening practice at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.These outings follow the pair’s driver development tests Read more…
After a long drought since its last constructors’ championship in 2013, Red Bull is set to secure this year’s title in the coming weeks, after Max Verstappen took his second successive drivers’ crown at Suzuka last weekend.It will be Red Bull’s first constructors’ title of the hybrid era.Horner paid tribute Read more…
There seems little doubt that some of F1’s previous great wet weather drives – think Ayrton Senna at Portugal in 1985, Michael Schumacher at Barcelona in 1996 and Damon Hill at Suzuka in 1994 – would not have happened these days because the races would never have been allowed to Read more…
As part of this continued push, a revised beam wing layout was on the menu for the Japanese Grand Prix, with the team looking to customise its configuration for the demands of the Suzuka layout.This is a subtle change, especially when we consider the scale of the update unveiled in Read more…
Hamilton spent much of the race chasing the Frenchman, attempting a number of moves at the Hairpin, the exit of Spoon, and into the first corner – but couldn’t find a way through and eventually crossed the line just 0.641s behind in sixth.The seven-time world champion knew before the race Read more…
Verstappen clinched the 2022 title with a dominant victory in Suzuka last weekend, with four races still to go.There was some confusion after the flag about whether or not full points would be awarded despite the shortened race distance, but unlike the Abu Dhabi finale last year, the success was Read more…
Despite growing rainfall in the lead-up to lights out at Suzuka, the race started as scheduled at 2pm local time, only for it to be red flagged after two laps due to the conditions.A two-hour wait followed before the race resumed with 40 minutes left on the three-hour time limit, Read more…
After the race was resumed following the red flag, drivers soon began to move from wet to intermediate tyres, with most coming in at the end of the second flying lap.With his teammate Ocon coming in on that lap, Alonso was told to stay out so that Alpine wouldn’t have Read more…
The red flag delays for heavy rain meant we only got 28 laps of racing action at Suzuka before the three-hour time limit expired, with Verstappen crossing the line first.It was only in parc ferme he found out he was champion when the FIA handed Charles Leclerc a post-race penalty Read more…