The ex-AlphaTauri racer was on course to bag fifth position, but at the third standing start of the race after a red flag initiated by a shunt for Kevin Magnussen, Gasly was forced into avoiding action.As the pack concertinaed into Turn 1, he locked up and ran over the grass to miss clipping the rear of Fernando Alonso, although the Aston Martin driver was imminently tagged by Carlos …Keep reading
Stroll was seventh into the first corner at the chaotic ‘third’ start, but he jumped up to third as Carlos Sainz tapped Fernando Alonso into a spin while Pierre Gasly and Sergio Perez both went wide.However, he lost some momentum with a snap of oversteer exiting Turn 2, giving Sainz the opportunity to draw alongside heading into Turn 3. On the tighter inside line, Stroll locked up and sailed …Keep reading
Poleman Verstappen was overtaken by George Russell at the initial start, and he then lost a further spot at Turn 3 when, in Horner’s words, Hamilton “sent a missile” down the inside and made an aggressive pass.Verstappen then sat in third watching the Mercedes drivers battle before Russell pitted when a safety car came out after Alex Albon crashed.The subsequent red flag gave Hamilton and …Keep reading
The German says that a grid start and sprint to the finish presents too much risk and that drivers who have worked hard to get into strong positions in the closing laps have too much to lose.Following a red flag triggered by Alex Albon’s Turn 6 crash, the Melbourne race was stopped for a second time with three laps to go after Hulkenberg’s team-mate Kevin Magnussen hit the wall at Turn 2 and …Keep reading
The Brazilian has been prompted into action by recent comments from former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who offered fresh insight into the critical 2008 Singapore Grand Prix that proved hugely costly to Massa’s title ambitions that year.That Singapore race is most famously known for the deliberate crash triggered by Nelson Piquet Jr., which brought out a safety car that ultimately helped …Keep reading
Sainz made contact with Alonso’s Aston Martin at the second restart with two racing laps to go, which spun his fellow Spaniard around.The race was red-flagged for a third time and the FIA opted to run the final lap to the flag behind the safety car using the previous grid order, which meant that Alonso regained his third place.Sainz, who had recovered from losing out by pitting under the …Keep reading
A second red flag induced by Kevin Magnussen clipping the wall enabled the field to switch to fresh soft tyres during the stoppage for a third standing start on lap 56 of 58.But the Melbourne race was halted swiftly after the restart due to a chaotic Turn 1, where Fernando Alonso was spun by Carlos Sainz, the Alpine team-mates eliminated each other and Logan Sargeant hit Nyck de …Keep reading
The Dutchman had a comfortable lead when Kevin Magnussen crashed and the debris trail he left led race director Niels Wittich to call for a red flag with three laps to go.Verstappen was thus left on pole for a potential two-lap sprint to the flag but with a strong risk of losing the lead given that he had got away badly at the two previous starts.In the event, Verstappen did get to the …Keep reading
An incident-packed Australian Grand Prix was, for those encumbered by a European time zone, certainly worth getting up for. Although another Max Verstappen victory was unsurprising given his and Red Bull’s advantage in the early part of the 2023 Formula 1 season, late chaos threatened to derail the otherwise settled pecking order.In F1’s first triple red-flagged race (or quadruple, if one …Keep reading
Albon was running in sixth place when he had a high-speed spin into a barrier and his damaged car rolled back towards the edge of the track.The first drivers on the scene, Pierre Gasly and Hulkenberg, had virtually no warning – and only just missed the stricken Williams as they passed it at full speed. Hulkenberg admitted that he had a narrow escape.“Holy moly, I mean seriously I had a …Keep reading