“Nobody’s perfect” — but Leclerc came close with final Monza stint
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc produced a stunning 33-lap run of lap time consistency to win Formula 1’s 2024 Italian Grand Prix, which has evoked memories of other such famous moments from motorsport history. In the 2022 Mexican GP, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen managed 38 straight laps in the same lap time bracket (1m38s), while the 1983 […]
Ferrari set for Spa WEC appeal hearing
The FIA International Court of Appeal will rule on the appeal made by the factory Ferrari AF Corse team after it unsuccessfully challenged the decision of the race stewards to restart the Spa 6 Hours on 11 May beyond the scheduled finish time of the race and therefore the provisional results of the third round […]
Ferrari AF Corse sneaks past Toyota for win
In a thrilling finish to Sunday’s Lone Star Le Mans six-hour race on the Circuit of The Americas, a customer AF Corse-run 499P driven by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye, and Robert Shwartzman at Austin took the win after a battle with Toyota. All mere hours after Charles Leclerc’s Italian Grand Prix victory at Monza earlier […]
«Tough» for Hamilton to wait until 2025 to work with new F1 race engineer
Lewis Hamilton will be forced to wait until 2025 to start building a relationship with a new Formula 1 race engineer at Ferrari. Hamilton had hoped Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington, his long-serving race engineer, would follow him to the Italian team for next season, saying he was like his «brother». However, the British engineer has been […]
Hamilton’s arrival at Ferrari only «good news» for me
Charles Leclerc says it’s «always good news» teaming up with a driver of Lewis Hamilton’s calibre, as will be the case at Ferrari from the 2025 Formula 1 season. Ferrari signed Hamilton before the 2024 campaign even started, with team principal Frederic Vasseur making the most of an exit clause in the long-time Mercedes driver’s […]
Easier taking blame for mistakes at Ferrari under Vasseur
Frederic Vasseur has changed the culture at Ferrari for the better since taking over as its Formula 1 team principal, according to Charles Leclerc. Vasseur took the reins of the Scuderia in January 2023 and implemented his trademark no-bullshit approach, after years of Ferrari being criticised not just for lacking performance but also for repeating […]
Bouncing has disguised Ferrari’s genuine progress
Charles Leclerc believes Ferrari has made genuine progress with updates to its 2024 Formula 1 car, although the side-effect of bouncing has severely masked the improvements to the SF-24. When Ferrari introduced a new floor to the Spanish Grand Prix, the change in aerodynamic properties of the floor appeared to exacerbate an already-present level of bouncing in […]
Ferrari «pushing like hell» to cure bouncing after summer break
Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur says his squad is «pushing like hell» to get its lingering high-speed bouncing problem under control. Ferrari’s bouncing in high-speed corners was an unwanted side effect of the new floor introduced at the Spanish Grand Prix. After back-to-back tests in Silverstone the Scuderia applied temporary fixes that alleviated the problem, […]
How F1’s points standings look after the 2024 F1 Belgian GP
Mercedes’ 1-2 result in Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix initially closed the gap on its rivals in the constructors’ championship, before George Russell was stripped of his win. Even with team-mate Lewis Hamilton inheriting the win, Mercedes remains in fourth place in the teams’ standings heading into the summer break. As F1 enters its mid-season […]