What Alpine found to turn around Ocon’s F1 slump

Having begun the 2021 season as a regular contender for Q3, Ocon faced a challenging spell once the campaign got into full swing.
His qualifying form peaked with a P5 on the grid in Spain, but he then failed to make it out of Q2 in Monaco, Azerbaijan and France.
Things then got even worse, as at the Styrian and Austrian Grand Prix he found himself ill at ease with his Alpine A521, and he …Keep reading

The boomerang tweaks behind McLaren’s latest F1 upgrade

And, with rival teams all pretty much having switched off their work on current cars to focus on 2022, McLaren is still eyeing further updates after the summer break.
But the likelihood is that what appeared at the Hungaroring was probably the last ‘major’ upgrade for the team this season, with smaller tweaks to be made in the future to help find small pockets of performance without having a …Keep reading

Alfa Romeo: F1 points will be harder to score for Williams after break

Alfa Romeo was dealt a blow in its fight with Williams for P8 after an eventful wet-dry Hungarian Grand Prix, in which Williams driver Nicholas Latifi and George Russell not only got their first points of the season on the board but grabbed a 10-point haul to move firmly ahead of Alfa in the constructors’ championship.
Latifi’s and Russell’s seventh and eighth place respectively …Keep reading

Horner: Red Bull “will come out fighting” after F1 break

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen had opened up a 32-point lead over Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ championship by taking a clean sweep of the France-Austria triple-header but goes into the August break trailing by eight points after two incident-filled weekends.
In Silverstone, Verstappen made a 51G smash at Copse after being tagged by Hamilton, while in Hungary he was a victim of …Keep reading