The Spaniard classified fourth in the season opener and was 48s adrift of runaway winner Max Verstappen at the flag, while team-mate Charles Leclerc retired with a power unit electrical failure on lap 39 of 57.That comparatively poor performance prompted new team principal Fred Vasseur to defend the 2023 car, Read more
Certainly, the first two contests on the Jeddah Corniche Circuit haven’t been short of talking points. See Verstappen clipping the wall in 2021 to scupper his hitherto sensational Q3 lap before the title battle with Lewis Hamilton took another heated turn, as the protagonists repeatedly went wheel-to-wheel between red flags Read more
The Milton Keynes-based squad was handed a 10% reduction in aero development time for this season, as well as a $7 million fine, after it was found to have breached the cost cap on its way to helping Max Verstappen win the 2021 drivers’ title.While it believes it has limited Read more
The cars started from 11th and 18th, with Lando Norris making a series of pitstops and finishing two laps down and Oscar Piastri retiring early. One event into the season and McLaren is officially last in the constructors’ championship.It was not a great start by any measure for a team Read more
Chester, who took over from James Allison as technical director at the Enstone team in 2013 when it was known as Lotus, remained in charge of the squad’s technical operations until 2020.Thereafter, he joined the Mercedes Formula E squad where he was part of the team’s back-to-back drivers’ titles in Read more
After a dramatic 2023 opener in Bahrain, dominated by Red Bull as Max Verstappen led home a 1-2 from team-mate Sergio Perez and Fernando Alonso pulled off a surprise podium for Aston Martin, attention turns to Jeddah and a set of different challenges.Ferrari will aim to respond at the high-speed Read more
At the sharp end of the Formula 1 grid, it is crystal clear that Red Bull has stolen an early march at the start of the new season. Delivering on the immense promise shown by the RB19 in testing, Max Verstappen opened the campaign in Bahrain with pole position and Read more
Schumacher’s struggle with Haas during 2022 received its own episode in season five of the popular series, zooming in on the German’s frequent crashes in the first half of the season and his lack of pace compared to experienced team-mate Kevin Magnussen.The show particularly focused on Schumacher’s qualifying crash in Read more
The German manufacturer has found itself in need of a rapid response to the lack of performance of its new W14 car, which has proved to be no match for the pace-setting Red Bull squad.Team boss Toto Wolff has already talked about Mercedes needing to evaluate an all-new concept for Read more
The Grove squad struggled with the ground-effects rules revolution in 2022 as it lacked downforce and suffered with poor low-speed balance.That left the team to prop up the constructors’ championship with just eight points, compared to 35 for next-worst AlphaTauri in ninth.But the new FW45 has proved more stable and Read more