Toto Wolff has insisted that Mercedes will not repeat the error of exposing Andrea Kimi Antonelli to too many off-track distractions at Imola – which left him “toast” long before the Formula 1 race had even started.Bologna-born Antonelli endured his most difficult week since joining Mercedes in front of his Read more…
Charles Leclerc has made it a clean sweep of Friday’s F1 Monaco Grand Prix practice by heading Oscar Piastri in the second session.Last year’s Monaco GP victor Leclerc was just 0.038s quicker than McLaren’s championship leader Piastri, while Lewis Hamilton ensured both Ferraris featured in the top three.Piastri and then Read more…
Formula 1 championship leader Oscar Piastri believes McLaren has the pace to compete for pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix – as long as it can recover from a “very messy” Friday.Piastri escaped lasting damage after going straight into the tyre wall at Sainte Devote just 19 minutes into Read more…
Oliver Bearman has been hit with a 10-place grid penalty for this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix after overtaking Carlos Sainz under red flag conditions during second practice.The Haas Formula 1 rookie overtook the Williams driver at La Rascasse after the session was red-flagged early on for Oscar Piastri’s crash at Read more…
Pierre Gasly revealed his early ambitions to become a professional football player, after captaining one of the teams in the traditional Nationale Piloti charity match on the eve of the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix.A co-owner of French Championnat National club FC Versailles, the Alpine driver was given the honour Read more…
Lewis Hamilton might be considering trading the paddock for the red carpet in the next chapter of his career, but admitted he was “nervous” about the rest of the Formula 1 grid watching the finished F1 film.“I’ve seen it like 20 times already – at least,” Hamilton told reporters on Thursday, Read more…
A contrivance? On the face of it, enforcing a two-stop minimum for the Monaco Grand Prix seems like one – although at the same time, a plot-generating device one might think nothing of, had Formula 1 ratified the idea 50 years ago.The effect of ensuring every driver takes at least Read more…
Charles Leclerc says Ferrari’s specific low-speed weakness is going to make it extremely difficult to repeat 2024’s home win at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix.Last year Leclerc finally found redemption around his home streets, taking his first win from pole following several years of heartbreak and near-misses at the Principality. Read more…
Alpine F1 driver Franco Colapinto says he is heading to his second race weekend of 2025 in Monaco looking for more confidence in his car over one lap at one of F1’s toughest circuits.Colapinto made his Alpine debut at last week’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix in Imola, coming home in 16th Read more…
Dozens of fans were chanting his name as their favourite Formula 1 driver climbed the pitwall after the race to greet them. But this was not a Ferrari driver celebrating, let’s say, a podium on home soil. Instead, it was Alpine’s Franco Colapinto, who had come home in 16th place Read more…