Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou, who won his second IndyCar title for the team at Portland last weekend, had been driving TPC (testing previous cars) machinery as reserve driver for McLaren’s F1 team ahead of his expected switch to Arrow McLaren’s IndyCar squad next year.This was understood to be part of Read more
The team struggled for performance with its low downforce package over the Italian GP weekend, with Fernando Alonso qualifying 10th and finishing ninth, and Lance Stroll out of the points in 16th from 20th on the grid.With Ferrari logging third and fourth the Maranello team moved ahead of Aston into Read more
Hamilton, who has won in Singapore four times, believes that his team’s high-downforce package will work well at the Marina Bay street track.In July, he took pole position at the Hungaroring, another venue that played to the strengths of the Mercedes.“I feel like this [Monza] might be the worst one Read more
The Dutch driver added the record for the most consecutive F1 victories to his growing collection last weekend at Monza, with the youngest winner of a world championship race set to continue racking up success for many years to come.GP Racing editor Stuart Codling is joined by Mark Gallagher and Read more
In Monza last weekend, Verstappen set a new record with his 10th consecutive grand prix win, while between them, the Dutchman and his Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez have won every race held so far in 2023.Maffei said that F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali is trying to focus on the fact Read more
Signing Perez was the latest attempt by Red Bull to find a driver who could be a good wingman for its undisputed leader Max Verstappen, someone who could back up the Dutchman’s success with enough podiums to land the Milton Keynes team the constructors’ championship.Its junior drivers Pierre Gasly and Read more
While the Italian Grand Prix featured a number of overtakes and plenty of wheel-to-wheel action to show what is possible with the current generation of cars, there is now some concern about the impact of development directions that teams are taking.As they probe ways to increase performance, this is inevitably Read more
Both Gasly and team-mate Esteban Ocon were eliminated in Q1, qualifying 17th and 18th respectively for the Italian GP.They didn’t fare much better in the race, with Gasly just avoiding being lapped by winner Max Verstappen in 15th, while Ocon’s car was retired as a pre-caution after he started encountering a steering lock issue.While Gasly explained Read more
Magnussen qualified only 19th at Monza and was one of only three drivers to take a gamble by starting on the hard rather than medium Pirelli tyres.However, while Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas used the strategy to have strong races and earn points Magnussen finished 18th and last, behind team-mate Nico Hulkenberg.The intention had been Read more
Mercedes had another difficult weekend at Monza, where Ferrari was clearly a step ahead and the W14 was the third-fastest car.George Russell and Hamilton eventually finished fifth and sixth as they showed an obvious top-speed handicap.Hamilton’s life has been made harder of late by a couple of difficult qualifying sessions, Read more