Ferrari’s Calado admits «I screwed up» after missing WEC Spa Hyperpole
The Briton revealed that he made mistakes on his two quick laps aboard the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar in the opening 15-minute qualifying session. That left him outside the top 10 cars that progressed to the final session in which team-mate Antonio Fuoco claimed pole position by half a second in the sister […]
Ferrari beats Porsche to pole, top Toyota in seventh
Fuoco took the top spot by almost exactly half a second at the wheel of the #50 Ferarri 499P Le Mans Hypercar in the 12-minute Hyperpole session for the fastest 10 cars in the first round of qualifying. The Italian’s 2m02.600s lap of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps pushed Porsche driver Matt Campbell down to second. […]
Leclerc set for new Ferrari F1 race engineer as Xavi Marcos moves role
Marcos has been Leclerc’s race engineer since he joined from Sauber at the start of 2019, getting the role after his working as a factory-based engineer when Carlo Santi had been race engineer for Leclerc’s predecessor Kimi Raikkonen in 2018. This followed long-time Ferrari driver coach and esteemed race engineer Jock Clear working to implement […]
Toyota expects Ferrari to remain quickest in Spa WEC despite BoP hit
David Floury, technical director of Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, believes that its Italian rival will maintain at least some of the the advantage it showed last time out at Imola before tactical errors when it rained allowed the Japanese manufacturer to come through to win. Floury intimated that that the BoP changes for the Spa […]
Sainz penalised for Piastri contact in F1 Miami GP, drops to fifth
The Ferrari driver had finished the race around the Hard Rock Stadium in fourth position, trailing team-mate Charles Leclerc, but falls one place behind Red Bull’s Sergio Perez in the revised classification after being hit with a five-second penalty. Sainz had reached fourth place after a lengthy battle with McLaren driver Piastri, who had passed […]
Lando Norris wins for McLaren
Norris beat Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc of Ferrari after the McLaren ace took full advantage to make his pitstop under the safety car, unlike all his rivals. 2024 F1 Miami Grand Prix results 2024 F1 Miami Grand Prix report Polesitter Verstappen led the charge to Turn 1, as his team-mate Sergio Perez […]
Leclerc convinced Ferrari is closer to Red Bull on F1 race pace in Miami
Although the Monegasque could do little about stopping Verstappen from roaring to yet another victory in the sprint, the fact that he was able to match his pace once he dropped into clean air has left him upbeat about his chances. Critical, he thinks, for his chances to stop Red Bull from winning is to […]
Aston Martin requests right of review for Alonso’s China F1 penalty
Alonso had been given a 10-second time penalty in the sprint and three penalty points on his licence after he collided with Carlos Sainz in the Saturday race. The Spaniards were fighting over third position when they clashed at Turn 9, which gave the two-time world champion a puncture and led to his retirement from […]
Ferrari «made too many mistakes» for podium fight at F1 Chinese GP
Ferrari has been the 2024 season’s second-best team so far, but didn’t live up to those expectations at last weekend’s Shanghai event. Having had at least one driver on the podium across the first four races, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz only qualified sixth and seventh respectively, six-tenths off Max Verstappen. The pair managed to […]