«I will turn this around,» says under-pressure Perez
A defiant Sergio Perez says he will turn his Formula 1 season around after suffering another blow in British Grand Prix qualifying. In the opening stages of a wet qualifying session, Perez slipped off the road at Copse and got stuck in the gravel trap, ending the session in 19th. It’s the latest blow for […]
Red Bull regrets not warning Verstappen about Norris investigation in Austrian GP
Red Bull’s failure to warn Max Verstappen that Lando Norris faced a track limits investigation might have avoided their late 2024 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix crash, reckons Helmut Marko. Verstappen and Norris collided in the closing stages of Sunday’s race at the Red Bull Ring, after the McLaren driver had gone off the track […]
Verstappen/Norris Austrian GP clash caused by unpunished 2021 F1 moves
McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella believes Max Verstappen’s collision with Lando Norris in the Austrian Grand Prix was a result of his 2021 clashes with Lewis Hamilton not being properly punished. Verstappen and Norris crashed late in the race at the Red Bull Ring when the former moved across the latter at the […]
Verstappen says latest Red Bull row «could have been avoided»
Max Verstappen says the latest row between his father Jos and Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Christian Horner was unnecessary. Jos Verstappen had accused Horner of blocking his appearance in a parade before the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday. While the F1 team says it did not try to stop him from appearing in […]
Verstappen urges Red Bull to find more pace as F1 rivals catch up
Max Verstappen has urged his Red Bull Formula 1 team to bring more performance to its car after being beaten to pole for the Spanish Grand Prix by McLaren’s Lando Norris. Verstappen and Red Bull headed to Barcelona as the pre-event favourites, but the Dutchman was pipped at the end by Norris, who snatched pole […]
Verstappen wants ‘impossible’ F1 2026 weight reduction for fun, agile cars
The FIA released details of the new regulations set for two seasons ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix, with cars set to become marginally shorter and narrower compared to the current crop of machinery. A 30kg drop in weight is set to come with that in a welcome relief for drivers, who have campaigned for […]
Red Bull might not take Yuki Tsunoda seriously yet, but RB does
Tsunoda was labelled a fast but slightly inconsistent hothead upon his F1 arrival in 2021 at the tender age of 20, going viral because of his expletive-laden radio messages. But with it being easier to calm a fast driver down than it is to make a consistently average driver faster, both the team and Tsunoda’s […]
How Red Bull has taken another leap with F1’s rear wing trend
The semi-detached rear wing tip solution is one example of this right now – as rivals clearly saw the potential on offer when Aston Martin and Alpine simultaneously debuted original versions of the two slightly different solutions in Monaco last year. All teams have been in search of means to recover some of the losses […]
McLaren blew Canada F1 win with «crucial» slick tyre call
While McLaren had lost the lead to Verstappen at the first safety car stop for Logan Sargeant’s stranded Williams, Horner does not think that was the key moment that opened the door for his team’s victory. Instead, he suggests that the “crucial” decision came later in the race when drivers started moving across to the […]