Rewind the clock to last year and the Woking-based team had actually been the first to test a 2021 specification floor, when it installed one on its MCL35 at the Belgian Grand Prix.This allowed it to assess the aerodynamic havoc that the changes would wreak at the rear of the Read more…
Mercedes entered the 2021 season on the back foot after the changes to the technical regulations over the winter cut its advantage over the field.The margins between Mercedes and Red Bull have been fine through the opening four races, all of which have included at least one wheel-to-wheel fight between Read more…
Alonso is still getting up to speed on his return to F1 this year, and has been outqualified in three of the four races so far by his French team-mate.But while Ocon has certainly benefited from being well settled in at Alpine, after a sometimes challenging 2020 campaign with the Read more…
The world champion topped second free practice for the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday afternoon, as main title rival Red Bull had a more tricky day around the Barcelona circuit.With Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc ending up as Mercedes’ closest challenger on the timesheets, with Alpine duo Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso Read more…
Verstappen finished second for Red Bull in the Portuguese Grand Prix on Sunday, losing ground on race winner and Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ championship.Late pitstops for Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez and Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas gave Verstappen a window to take a free stop and go for Read more…
Two-time world champion Alonso returned to F1 for 2021 with Alpine after spending the last two years exploring categories away from grand prix racing.The Spaniard won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice with Toyota in 2018 and 2019, as well as capturing the World Endurance Championship title.He has twice Read more…
For cost reasons, teams agreed to have just a single three-day session in Bahrain in 2021, shared between their two drivers.That put extra pressure on any teams that suffered mechanical problems at the test and lost track running, and it also made life difficult for drivers settling into new teams, Read more…
On Tuesday afternoon, a US jury found Derek Chauvin, the former police officer accused of Floyd’s murder on a Minneapolis street last year, guilty on three charges: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.Floyd, a Black man whose neck was knelt upon by Chauvin for more than nine minutes Read more…
Bottas topped both FP1 and FP2 on Friday for Mercedes, and said he felt “a lot happier” with the W12 car after battling rear-end instability through pre-season testing and the opening race weekend in Bahrain.But the Finn slumped to a disappointing eighth-place finish in qualifying for the Emilia Romagna Grand Read more…
As part of an evaluation on how to expand the calendar over future years, one proposal that was looked at was to make race weekends more compact.So rather than running over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, practice, qualifying and races would all be run over two days.The idea fell away a Read more…