Max Verstappen says he’ll need a couple more races before getting a clear picture of the true potential of the Red Bull/Honda combination. The Milton Keynes-based outfit and its engine supplier were singled out in Australia for their good performance, with Verstappen finishing the opening round of the 2019 campaign in third place behind the…
Valtteri Bottas’ welcome victory in the 2019 Azerbaijan Grand Prix was a year overdue, according to Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff. Bottas was leading last year’s race when an errant piece of debris inflicting a race-ending puncture. The Finn was forced to pull over and lost his best chance of the season of claiming a…
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff was understandably delighted by the Silver Arrows’ latest front row lock-out after qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai on Saturday. “For Saturday it couldn’t go any better,” he told Sky Sports F1 after the end of the all-important session which saw Valtteri Bottas beat Lewis Hamilton to pole…
Nico Rosberg says Ferrari was ill-advised to put Charles Leclerc on medium tyres in Q2, a decision that led to the Monegasque’s costly crash according to the 2016 world champion. Leclerc looked like a sure candidate for pole in Baku after running ahead of the field since the start of the race weekend on Friday….
Fernando Alonso won’t make any promises but after failing to qualify for the 103rd running of the Indy 500 he hopes to return to the Brickyard next year. When Kyle Kaiser bumped Alonso from 33rd to 34th at the last hour on Sunday after a week that had gone from bad to worse for McLaren…
Red Bull Racing team boss Christian Horner believes Ferrari has raised the bar this season in terms of engine performance as the ‘ballistically fast’ straight-line speed of its SF90 in China has demonstrated. After the Scuderia’s failed opening salvo in Melbourne, the Italian outfit lived up to the expectations generated by its performance in pre-season…
Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto admits the updates introduced on its SF90 in France did not have the desired impact, but the team did gain some clarity on the direction it needs to follow. In a bid to improve its speed and bridge the gap with Mercedes, the Scuderia brought to Paul Ricard revised front and…
McLaren’s Lando Norris labeled his P8 performance in qualifying in Montreal as the “perfect turnaround” after struggles on Friday had left him down the order. Norris is a first-time visitor to the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve this weekend and getting to grips with the track’s specifics has taken the 19-year-old a bit of time. The McLaren…
FIA race director Michael Masi says a review of Formula 1’s sporting rules could be considered, but only for 2020 and with the unanimous consent of the teams. Two weeks after the controversial penalty handed to Sebastian Vettel in the Canadian, it was Daniel Ricciardo’s turn to be on the receiving end of the stewards’…
McLaren driver Carlos Sainz has warned that Formula 1 needs to overhaul its rules and regulations to make the sport fairer, if it’s to retain the driver talent currently racing for midfield teams. Click Here: Spain Football Shop “It needs immediate change and it needs immediate refining in Formula 1 to change that trend,” Sainz…