Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner has defended the team from criticism about the lack of upgrades it brought for the VF-18 at the Spanish Grand Prix. Many teams used the opportunity presented by the first European race of the year to roll out new components. By comparison, Haas’s raft of changes was relatively subdued. […]
Lewis Hamilton knows Mercedes and himself will be up against fierce competition this weekend in Monaco, but the reigning world champion doesn’t see a win as an insurmountable task. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has repeatedly played down the Silver Arrows team’s chances in the Prinicpality, suggesting Mercedes dominant win in Barcelona was the result of […]
Charles Leclerc has certainly been gaining a lot of attention in his first season in the Formula 1 world championship. Since joining Sauber at the start of the year, the Monegasque driver has scored points in three out of his first seven Grand Prix starts, including sixth place in Baku. In Canada, Leclerc held on […]
Nico Hulkenberg says the team he sees as Renault’s main threat for the honorary title of ‘best of the rest’ this season is Haas, discarding challenges from McLaren or Force India. As the Formula 1 season reaches its half-way mark, Renault appears to have a firm grip on the mid-field, leading Haas by 19 points […]
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel said he wasn’t surprised to see Mercedes looking back to their best this weekend in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The Silver Arrows have been getting stronger with each qualifying session in 2018, and finally achieved their first 1-2 lock-out of the year on Saturday. It […]
It’s back to Europe next weekend and back to a venue teams are all too familiar with: the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. As familiar as the track will be, having served as F1’s pre-season testing turf, conditions will contrast significantly with those that prevailed back in February and March in terms of track and […]
Heading into the Canadian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen found himself in the spotlight like never before. Criticised for rash behaviour and a number of costly accidents in the opening races of 2018, his bosses at Red Bull were looking to see some growth and maturity from the 20-year-old in Montreal. Light-hearted comments about wanting to […]
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Williams technical director Paddy Lowe says the team has a clear understanding of the reasons behind its dismal performance this season, but fixing the issues will require time. The Grove-based outfit launched its season in Melbourne with the hope of holding its own among the top mid-field contenders. The squad’s FW41 was been a disappointment […]
McLaren has been going nowhere fast lately, but sporting director Gil de Ferran isn’t giving up on trying to improve the team’s MCL33. The Woking-based outfit was out of the points in Germany last weekend, with Fernando Alonso never a contender for a top-10 finish before retiring on the penultimate lap of the race and […]