Alpine CEO: Alonso’s Miami F1 penalty “difficult to accept”

Alonso finished eighth on-track in the Miami Grand Prix, falling to ninth after receiving a five-second time penalty during the race for causing a collision with AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly.
But the two-time world champion fell out of the points when a second five-second penalty was handed down by the FIA stewards for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.
On Lap 53, Alonso cut the …Keep reading

How Mercedes’ Miami F1 updates yielded a false dawn

But as the weekend carried on, Mercedes could not recapture that form and it again found itself fighting at the front of the midfield pack rather than with Ferrari and Red Bull.
What Mercedes now needs to understand is whether it was flattered by Friday or underperformed over the rest of the weekend.
One factor that appears to have played to Mercedes on Friday was that its tyre warm up …Keep reading

Sainz reveals physical struggles in F1 Miami GP

The Spaniard ran a comfortable third in the early stages of the Miami event, but fell away from leaders Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc after the midway point.
While it appeared from the outside he may have struggled with the balance on the hard tyre, Sainz has revealed that the main factor for him was actually his physical condition.
Having taken a knock in his hefty Friday practice …Keep reading