Stella critical of McLaren’s Mexico GP qualifying execution as Norris hits «limit»
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella reckons the team’s execution let it down in Mexico Grand Prix qualifying and felt pole was possible. But Lando Norris, who was quickest in both Q1 and Q2, suggested he had hit the limit of potential in his car. He was unable to hit the ground running at the start of […]
FIA stewards reject McLaren’s Right of Review petition over Norris’s Austin penalty
McLaren has had its request for a Right of Review into Lando Norris’ Austin penalty rejected by the FIA stewards for last weekend’s Formula 1 race in Austin. McLaren had argued that the stewards made an incorrect statement – and overall call – in handing Norris a penalty in Document 69 (from the FIA timing […]
McLaren instigates right of review over Norris’s US GP penalty racing Verstappen
McLaren has instigated a right of review request into Lando Norris’s penalty in Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix – the first step in trying to get the sanction overturned. Norris was hit with a five-second penalty for overtaking Red Bull’s Max Verstappen off the track as they duelled late in the race at Austin. […]
What we learned from Red Bull and McLaren’s Austin F1 upgrades
Red Bull’s renewed challenge at the front of the grid in Austin suggests the team has begun to better understand the issues that it faces in finding performance from the RB20 on a week-by-week basis. However, there are other factors to consider, with its handle on the tyres when compared with the opposition a glaring […]
«Slam dunk» Norris penalty was a «black-and-white» case
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has backed the United States Grand Prix stewards over the penalty given to McLaren’s Lando Norris after his battle with Formula 1 title rival Max Verstappen, calling it a «black-and-white» case. Norris was fighting for the final podium position at the Circuit of the Americas when he made an […]
Norris says Austin was “momentum killer” for F1 title hopes
Lando Norris labelled his United States Grand Prix weekend a «momentum killer» for his Formula 1 title hopes after losing ground to Max Verstappen. The McLaren driver had gone into the Austin event 52 points behind his Red Bull rival and well aware that, with time running out, he needed to start cutting the deficit […]
Why McLaren didn’t tell Norris to give place back to Verstappen
McLaren has explained why it didn’t ask Lando Norris to let Max Verstappen past after their Turn 12 off-track battle in Austin, which led to a penalty for the Briton. In the closing stages of Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix, Norris was hounding Verstappen for third when he finally swooped around the outside on […]
Verstappen not interested in Horner/Brown rivalry
Max Verstappen insists he simply «doesn’t care» about the feud between Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Christian Horner and McLaren boss Zak Brown. The latest spat between the two has overshadowed much of the track action at this weekend’s United States Grand Prix in Austin, where Verstappen qualified second behind title rival Lando Norris. […]
The factors that make the US GP weekend crucial to F1’s fight at the front
After four weeks away, Formula 1 returns for a frantic six-race run in eight weeks, with Austin’s United States Grand Prix a crucial weekend across the grid as 2024’s final upgrades emerge. The race at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas is largely seen as the last major opportunity to unleash a last batch of car […]