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[ad_1] No-one would have had Max Verstappen ending the first timed session of the year outside the top five and half a second off the pace on their Bahrain Grand Prix bingo card. While the Dutchman and his title-winning team didn’t set the headline time during last week’s test, it was clear from all indications … Read more
[ad_1] Welcome to the longest season in Formula 1 history. Twenty-four grands prix and six sprints sprawl before us, taking the sport to five of the six inhabited continents of the earth. It’s the most ambitious racing program ever assembled by the peak class of international motor racing, and it begs the question: can you … Read more
[ad_1] What would satisfy as an encore performance from the best Formula 1 rookie since Lewis Hamilton? Aussie ace Oscar Piastri has made a habit of impressing on debut. Two of his three championships were won in maiden campaigns. The other was won in his second year — five years ago, in 2019, the last … Read more
[ad_1] With the F1 prologue is complete, team will spend the days leading up to next week’s Bahrain Grand Prix painstakingly analysing gigabytes of data in pursuit of every last millisecond of performance. That leaves us to consider what we learnt from what we could see from the outside during three days of testing. But … Read more
[ad_1] Many expected Red Bull Racing to set the time sheets alight on the second day of testing. Instead the fire it set was internal. Sergio Pérez’s day had barely got going before a front-right brake fire locked him into his garage. It was ultimately only a minor delay. His mechanics had the corner changed … Read more
[ad_1] Ask any driver for an assessment at the end of pre-season testing and they’ll tell you it’s too early to draw conclusions. Testing times can’t be read into because fuel levels and run plans are so variable. Cars suffer teething issues that obscure form. Teams deliberately try to hide their true level of performance. … Read more
[ad_1] Oscar Piastri says McLaren should be “very optimistic” that it can catch Red Bull Racing if it continues developing at the same rate it did in his breakout 2023 campaign. McLaren emerged spectacularly from more than a decade in the doldrums halfway through last year, when a major upgrade package turned the car from … Read more