Bottas and team-mate Zhou Guanyu finished eighth and ninth at Losail, with the latter jumping the penalised Sergio Perez in the final results.The six points earned move the Hinwil outfit above Haas to eighth place in the constructors’ table, leaving it just seven behind Williams.Alfa has brought a stream of new parts over recent races, culminating in a beam wing that was introduced in Qatar, and …Keep reading
Three teams took the plunge in making modifications to their cars, with Alfa Romeo becoming the seventh F1 team to modify its rear wing endplate to feature an upwashing swage line on the external face. It is a design that was first implemented simultaneously by Aston Martin and Alpine at the start of the season. Since then, Williams, McLaren, AlphaTauri and more recently Mercedes have all …Keep reading
McLaren started the season off the pace but following a change of concept and personnel reshuffle it has produced an impressive B-spec that turned the MCL60 into a reliable podium contender.PLUS: How McLaren has revamped its F1 team to become a contender againNorris and team-mate Oscar Piastri became the closest challengers of Red Bull’s dominant Max Verstappen in Japan and Qatar, taking a double …Keep reading
The governing body had announced on Tuesday – four days after Stroll appeared to shove his trainer Henry Howe after throwing his steering wheel out of his cockpit following his elimination from GP qualifying at last weekend’s event – that its compliance officer was in discussion with Lance Stroll in relation to several incidents that may have contravened the FIA’s rules, policies and …Keep reading
Norris saw both of his Q3 laptimes deleted in Friday’s qualifying at Losail, meaning he would start the race from 10th rather than second behind polesitter Max Verstappen.In Saturday’s sprint shootout, Norris then went off track in the final corner of his second flyer while on a pole-worthy run, instead getting demoted by team-mate Oscar Piastri.Piastri duly won Saturday night’s sprint race from …Keep reading
Lawson filled in for the injured Daniel Ricciardo for five events, scoring his first points at the Singapore Grand Prix with what remains the best Sunday result for any AlphaTauri driver this season. But with Ricciardo set to return for the United States Grand Prix in Austin, the New Zealander’s brief stint with the team ended on a low note with a first-lap incident in the Qatar sprint and a …Keep reading
Massa believes he was the victim of a conspiracy to cover up the 2008 Singapore GP Crashgate scandal in which Renault’s Nelson Piquet Jr crashed on purpose to let team-mate Fernando Alonso win.If the race result had been thrown out at the time, Massa would have claimed the drivers’ championship instead of losing it to McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton by one point.Massa has assembled a comprehensive legal …Keep reading
When Ricciardo broke a metacarpal in his left hand in a practice crash at Zandvoort, Horner initially suggested that the Australian was targeting a return for the Qatar round last weekend.But on the Monday ahead of the race, Ricciardo video called his substitute Liam Lawson to tell the Kiwi he would be required one last time before returning in the United States GP.Horner says Ricciardo was right …Keep reading
Multiple drivers had times deleted in Friday’s qualifying, and that continued in the Saturday shootout after the white lines had been moved at Turns 12 and 13 – where many of the offences occurred – in order to protect tyres from kerb damage.Along with Lance Stroll, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was one of two drivers to receive a five-second penalty in the sprint event, which in his case dropped …Keep reading
Around the halfway mark of a sweltering Losail race, Alonso urged the team to come up with a solution after feeling a burning pain in his seat.”The seat is burning, mate,” he said on the team radio. “Anything we can do at the pit stop? Throw me water or something!”The team couldn’t do much to provide some relief for the Spaniard, but afterwards team principal Mike Krack explained the …Keep reading