Last season, after three races Leclerc led the world championship by a comfortable margin on 71 points, having scored two victories.This year, after round three he lies 10th with his only score a seventh place in Saudi Arabia, where he had to recover from a grid penalty.He stopped with an Read more
Perez was hailed as a perfect team player during the team’s 2021 campaign, including a stout defence against Lewis Hamilton in the controversial Abu Dhabi season finale.But as the Mexican became more competitive compared to Verstappen in 2022, the internal battle intensified.It culminated in Verstappen’s refusal to follow team orders Read more
The Melbourne race was red-flagged for a third and final time on lap 57 of 58 after a chaotic restart, which prompted a 30-minute delay to work out how the event would finish.With just one lap remaining, the safety car led out the surviving cars across the line in order Read more
Hulkenberg returned with the US-owned F1 team after three years without a full-time seat.During his absence he kept his hand in with five reserve appearances with Racing Point/Aston Martin.The German has twice made Q3 in the first three races with his new team, and in Australia he scored his first Read more
While Red Bull has enjoyed a perfect record of three wins across the opening races in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Australia, in the latter event Mercedes replaced Aston Martin as the second-best team.But the cancellation of a return to China has now left a four-week gap in the calendar until Read more
Red Bull has dominated the three events held so far in 2023, with Max Verstappen winning in Bahrain and Australia and his team-mate Sergio Perez triumphing in Saudi Arabia.While some observers have expressed concerns that a year of supremacy by one team will be bad for F1 and following on Read more
Amid a disappointing start to the 2023 season, Tost said at the Saudi Arabian GP he didn’t trust his engineers after the AT04 failed to live up to expectations.The team showed some signs of progress in Melbourne, where Yuki Tsunoda qualified 12th and scored the team’s first point of the season Read more
Vettel retired at the end of last year after a 15-year career which yielded four consecutive world championships for Red Bull from 2010 until 2013.He ended his run in F1, which also included a long stint at Ferrari, with two years in the midfield at Aston Martin, where he failed Read more
The timetable of a race weekend has been thrust into the limelight following comments from F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali that he is in favour of scrapping free practice sessions.This has been followed by drivers and championship chiefs pushing to revise the structure of a sprint round by ditching the unpopular Read more
From Baku onwards, the first of six sprints this year, teams have discussed a format change in which the sprint event and the grand prix each have their own qualifying sessions.The new format, which is yet to be finalised, has received universal backing as it means the sprint will no Read more