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[ad_1] Red Bull Racing promised the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix would generate a closer contest, and technically it was right. Max Verstappen’s victory margin over the next-next team was 18 seconds, down from 25 seconds in Bahrain last weekend. Sometimes it’s the hope that kills you. Every practice, qualifying session and race from the 2024 … Read more
[ad_1] Max Verstappen was so fast in qualifying at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix that he didn’t even need his second lap to take pole. His first time was good enough to put more than 0.3 seconds on the field. He fluffed his second, lapping 0.2 seconds slower, but such was his iron grip on … Read more
[ad_1] Fernando Alonso comfortably topped second practice at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix overnight, but taking any advantage over Max Verstappen at face value is a dangerous proposition. FP2 in Jeddah is the only practice representative session before qualifying and the race. With the Arabian sun beating down on the track in FP1 and FP3, … Read more
[ad_1] There’s been so much going on off the circuit that there’s been hardly any time to focus on what’s happening on the track. Fortunately that decision is taken out of our hands from tonight, when the second leg of Formula 1’s season-opening Middle Eastern double-header gets underway in Saudi Arabia. The Jeddah Corniche Circuit … Read more
[ad_1] They say all publicity is good publicity, but Formula 1 has spent the last few weeks pushing that maxim to its limits. In the opening weeks of the 2024 season — and even dating back to the final weeks of 2023 — the sport has lurched from scandal to scandal, with events off track … Read more
[ad_1] F1 expert Ted Kravitz believes Daniel Ricciardo will claim at least one podium this season in his RB and is the ‘number one candidate’ to replace Sergio Perez at Red Bull next season. But he also highlighted Ricciardo’s biggest contender for the seat as one of F1’s greatest silly seasons looms, with more than … Read more
[ad_1] Max Verstappen did his best to calm Red Bull’s troubled waters and defend his father Jos’s integrity on Wednesday, saying “he is not a liar”. Speaking to reporters ahead of this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, the three-time world champion was asked if his father had regrets about his comments suggesting Red Bull might … Read more
[ad_1] Red Bull Racing is so fast that in 2024 it’s skipping to the end of its glorious reign at the top of Formula 1. The sort of crisis engulfing the constructors champion is normally reserved for fallen giants and middling minnows. Alpine is endured year after year of managerial catastrophe as it haphazardly attempts … Read more
[ad_1] FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is alleged to have told officials not to certify the track used for last year’s Las Vegas Formula One Grand Prix, the BBC reported on Tuesday citing a whistleblower. Ben Sulayem is said to have asked officials “to find some concerns to prevent the FIA from certifying the circuit … Read more
[ad_1] There are few Ferrari models as evocative as the Testarossa. Gerhard Berger might find the model triggering, however, having had his stolen from him 29 years ago while on duty as a Scuderia Ferrari driver in Imola. With organised crime thought to be behind audacious theft, few thought the car would ever be seen … Read more