The new nose and front wing aim to increase downforce and also help give the team more options to balance the car.Alfa Romeo’s head of trackside engineering Xevi Pujolar said the downforce gains from the updates had wider benefits for the whole car. “We thought that front wing would bring back Read more
Fortune went the way of both McLaren drivers during a hectic event at Albert Park, with the chaotic final restart leaving Piastri in eighth place and his team-mate Lando Norris in sixth.McLaren didn’t score any points in the first two races, with Piastri retiring with an electrical issue in Bahrain Read more
Massa’s actions have been prompted by recent comments from former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone regarding the fall-out from Nelson Piquet Jr’s deliberate crash in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix that helped his Renault team win. Ecclestone suggested that both he and then FIA president Max Mosley knew about the infamous incident Read more
After a disappointing start to the campaign, with its AT04 not making the step forward hoped for, the squad has worked hard to address areas where it felt it was especially lacking.The first fruits of that labour appeared in Melbourne, where the team brought some key developments that it hoped Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more