日: 2025年9月19日

There is a fascinating comparison to be had between the current furore over stage management in Formula 1 and two notorious examples from the past.
Why? Because Andrea Stella is a common denominator in all three. The McLaren team principal was Fernando Alonso’s race engineer in 2010 when Alonso’s Ferrari team-mate, Felipe Massa, was told “Fernando is faster than you”, a (lightly) coded …Keep reading

Lando Norris reckons he is now on the backfoot for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after a “costly” error during the second Formula 1 practice session.
The McLaren driver topped FP1 but finished 10th in FP2 after clattering the outside wall of the Turn 4 exit, which brought an early end to his session as the left-rear track rod was ripped out.
Norris was left rueing the incident and how it …Keep reading

Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton pipped team-mate Charles Leclerc in second free practice at Baku’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, while Formula 1 title rivals Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri both struggled.
Ferrari duo Hamilton and Leclerc led the early running and as rivals struggled on the slippery streets of Baku the Scuderia stayed on top for the entire session. Leclerc’s early soft-tyre lap was bested by …Keep reading

Sprint races are a bit like marmite: you either love them or you hate them and they will always divide opinion across the Formula 1 paddock. 
Max Verstappen has probably been the most vocal as the four-time world champion, who has the most sprint victories with 12, previously said he gets “no satisfaction” from winning them. 
Lance Stroll, meanwhile, revealed “I like the sprint …Keep reading

McLaren’s Lando Norris has topped Friday’s curtailed first practice at Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Norris headed team-mate Oscar Piastri and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in a two-part session that saw a lengthy interruption for kerb issues.
On the streets of the Azeri capital championship leader Piastri soon had to halt his run plan due to power unit issues on his McLaren MCL39.
On …Keep reading

Azerbaijan might have been on the Formula 1 calendar for almost a decade but this weekend is likely to throw up many unknowns.
One of those is caused by Pirelli’s decision to bring tyre compounds a step softer than last year, as it already has done for several races this season in an effort to steer teams away from defaulting to a one-stop strategy.
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Yuki Tsunoda has been struggling since his promotion to Red Bull Racing, picking up just nine points since making the step-up. The Japanese driver is now under pressure, and Helmut Marko has named the Mexican Grand Prix at the end of October as a reference point – meaning the next three race weekends will be ‘crucial’, according to Tsunoda. 
Isack Hadjar currently stands on pole-position …Keep reading

Almost two weeks on from McLaren’s decision to ask Oscar Piastri to wave Lando Norris through in Monza, following the Briton’s slow pitstop in the closing stages of the race, both drivers have now had the benefit of various debriefs and debates about the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix’s chain of events.
Let’s recap, for anyone who’s been living under a rock: Norris and Piastri were running second …Keep reading