In the wake of Fernando Alonso’s shock decision to sign for Aston Martin for next year, the Alpine squad moved quickly to take up a contract that it believes it has with its reserve driver Piastri.It announced the deal on Tuesday afternoon, the day after it discovered that Alonso would Read more…
Mercedes showed signs of its pace in Hungary on Saturday as George Russell scored his maiden F1 pole, while Hamilton was left ruing a DRS issue that he felt denied the team a possible front-row lockout.Ferrari proved quicker through the first half of the race, allowing Charles Leclerc to leapfrog Read more…
The FIA Formula 2 driver, who currently sits third in the standings with Carlin after feature race wins at Silverstone and the Red Bull Ring, will take part in the Friday practice session at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas on 21 October.Sargeant joined the Williams Academy last October and got Read more…
The Austrian Grand Prix represented the halfway point of the 2022 Formula 1 season. But the Hungarian GP retaining its pre-summer break spot and the mental reset it offers was why Max Verstappen’s engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, told him as he crossed the finish line last Sunday: “what a drive – Read more…
Despite sitting first and third with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz halfway through the race, Ferrari failed to get either of its cars onto the podium.Leclerc dropped all the way back to sixth after an ill-fated call to run hard tyres for the third stint backfired in spectacular fashion, allowing Read more…
Leclerc pitted from the lead at the end of lap 39 after completing just 17 laps on his medium compound, with Ferrari then hoping to get him to the end of lap 70 on Pirelli’s hardest tyre, despite seeing how Alpine duo Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso were struggling on Read more…
The seven-time F1 world champion believed he could match team-mate George Russell’s surprise pole laptime in Q3, but suffered a broken DRS on his final lap, leaving him unable to improve late on.Having to rely on his laptime from the first run in the top-10 qualifying shootout, Hamilton dropped to Read more…
The McLaren driver shadowed Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc by just 0.217 seconds in FP2 at the Hungaroring, having also ended FP1 inside the top five in fourth.This follows a week on from a French GP weekend in which Norris was 1.1s off pole in fifth and finished the race 52s adrift Read more…
Hamilton and team-mate George Russell both failed to compete with the front-runners in either FP1 or FP2 at the Hungaroring, regularly reporting struggles over the radio.Hamilton sounded exasperated at one stage when he was informed of the gap to pacesetter Charles Leclerc of Ferrari, who ended FP1 1.1 seconds clear Read more…
Vettel announced on Thursday morning that he would be stepping away from F1 at the end of the season, bringing the curtain down on a career that netted four world championship titles.His departure from grand prix racing has special significance for Schumacher because the pair have forged a close relationship Read more…