The double world champion set the third fastest time in qualifying, 0.465 seconds away from Perez’s ultimate pace, but will move up to the front row on the grid as Charles Leclerc will cop at least a 10-place grid penalty for taking on new control electronics.Despite a solid qualifying result, Read more
Despite missing the Thursday activities in Jeddah due to a stomach bug, Verstappen showed no signs of it impacting his performance as he took a clean sweep of top spots in both practice sessions on Friday.Fernando Alonso kept pace with the Red Bulls to take second place in the second Read more
Max Verstappen delivered another hammer blow to his rivals’ hopes of challenging Red Bull after his clean sweep of Friday practice sessions ahead of Formula 1’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.Having spent the last few days struggling with a stomach bug, Verstappen was absent from Thursday’s media sessions after arriving in Read more
Verstappen was fastest in both FP1, held in daylight, and FP2, which was held in darkness and was closer to conditions for both qualifying and the race.Saudi Arabian Grand Prix FP1 results: Verstappen fastest from Perez ClaDriver LapsTimeGapIntervalkm/h 1 Max Verstappen 18 1’29.617 …Keep reading
Although the Dutchman led the way in both sessions around the Jeddah circuit, he said that the early long-run pace pointed to things being much closer this weekend.In particular he reckoned the different nature of the track, and especially the fact that it was not so punishing on tyres, allowed Read more
Following FP1 before sundown, FP2 was run at nightfall in more representative conditions for qualifying and the race, the temperature floating around 26 degrees C for the start of the session.Lance Stroll kicked off proceedings on the medium tyre with a 1m32.293s, but this was quickly felled by Carlos Sainz’s Read more
F1 heads back to Jeddah for the second race of the 2023 season this weekend, the first event after last year’s edition was marred and nearly aborted, following the threat of a drivers’ strike in the aftermath of a Houthi missile strike on a nearby Aramco oil facility. The F1 management Read more
The Belgian, who raced for the Marussia Virgin team in 2011 as well as having a one-off outing with Lotus at the 2012 Italian Grand Prix, has been seen in the Mercedes pits on several occasions this year alongside boss Toto Wolff.Up until now, Mercedes explained that d’Ambrosio’s presence was Read more
Ferrari was well off the pace of Red Bull in the season-opening Sakhir race and Leclerc retired early with a power unit issue. His team-mate Carlos Sainz lost out to Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin on the way to fourth.Since then, stories in the Italian media have suggested that the team Read more
Mercedes endured a torrid 2022 campaign with a car that was crippled by porpoising, but it was confident of unearthing much more potential from an evolution of the same concept.Yet despite eradicating the dreaded bouncing, Mercedes discovered in Bahrain’s season opener that it had not made the progress it had Read more