Hamilton: I hope Verstappen and I make it cleanly through Turn 1
This year’s two title rivals are starting on the front row for Sunday’s US Grand Prix – the first time they have lined up alongside each other at the head of the pack since the Zandvoort race in early September and three events on from their Monza crash.That was the second collision between the pair […]
McLaren: We must not forget we got “destroyed” at Zandvoort
The Woking-based squad became the first team to take a 1-2 in 2021, with Daniel Ricciardo leading home Lando Norris at Monza.But despite the joy of the triumph, team principal Andreas Seidl is clear about just how much room for improvement he thinks his squad needs to make.And he says that the drubbing it took compared to […]
McLaren: We must not forget we got “destroyed” at Zandvoort
The Woking-based squad became the first team to take a 1-2 in 2021, with Daniel Ricciardo leading home Lando Norris at Monza.But despite the joy of the triumph, team principal Andreas Seidl is clear about just how much room for improvement he thinks his squad needs to make.And he says that the drubbing it took compared to […]
McLaren: We must not forget we got “destroyed” at Zandvoort
The Woking-based squad became the first team to take a 1-2 in 2021, with Daniel Ricciardo leading home Lando Norris at Monza.But despite the joy of the triumph, team principal Andreas Seidl is clear about just how much room for improvement he thinks his squad needs to make.And he says that the drubbing it took compared to […]
McLaren: We must not forget we got “destroyed” at Zandvoort
The Woking-based squad became the first team to take a 1-2 in 2021, with Daniel Ricciardo leading home Lando Norris at Monza.But despite the joy of the triumph, team principal Andreas Seidl is clear about just how much room for improvement he thinks his squad needs to make.And he says that the drubbing it took compared to […]
Kubica accepts others are ‘higher on the list’ for Alfa Romeo F1 seat
One-time grand prix winner Kubica has made two appearances for Alfa Romeo this season, deputising for Kimi Raikkonen at Zandvoort and Monza after the Finn contracted COVID-19.Kubica linked up with Alfa Romeo as its reserve driver in 2020, having spent the previous season racing full-time with Williams, and his primary backer, Orlen, is the team’s […]
Ten things we learned from F1’s 2021 Italian Grand Prix
After a long-awaited return to Zandvoort, F1 headed to one of its spiritual homes in Monza to complete its gruelling post-summer trio of races.While the F1 driver market went into overdrive during the week between the Dutch and Italian rounds, it was the action on the track which dominated the headlines – both for the […]
Sainz lost confidence after “weird” Monza F1 practice crash
Sainz lost control in the middle part of the Ascari chicane and had a heavy head-on impact with a single-layer tyre barrier on the left-hand side of the track, which wiped the nose off his Ferrari and damaged its front suspension.It was the Spaniard’s second crash in two weekends, after he shunted out of FP3 […]
“Very strict” clauses in Albon’s contract protect Mercedes – Wolff
Williams announced on Wednesday that it had signed current Red Bull reserve driver Albon for a full-time seat next year, partnering Nicholas Latifi.Mercedes F1 boss Wolff had previously said it would be “tricky” to have a Red Bull-affiliated driver at a Mercedes customer team, particularly with Red Bull becoming a power unit manufacturer from next […]
Norris: Missing P3 in Monza F1 qualifying “sucks”
Following his worst qualifying of the year last weekend at Zandvoort, where his unbroken run of consecutive Q3 appearances came to an end with 13th on the grid, Norris sat third after the first runs in Q3 at Monza on Friday evening and was just 0.065 seconds shy of provisional leader Lewis Hamilton.But Norris dropped […]