Max Verstappen has lost pole position for the 2020 Qatar Grand Prix after Race Stewards handed the Red Bull Racing driver a one-place grid penalty and one penalty point for “driving unnecessarily slowly on a cool down lap” in an incident involving Mercedes’ George Russell in Q3. Russell will now take pole position for the
Month: November 2024
DRIVERS 1 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing)2 – George RUSSELL (Mercedes)3 – Lando NORRIS (McLaren) TRACK INTERVIEWS(Conducted by Jolyon Palmer) Q: Lando Norris, third position in qualifying. Not quite what you were aiming for, I’m sure. Looked tricky out there for you, this one?Lando NORRIS: Yes. Yeah, not the position we were hoping for after yesterday and today, but the maximum we
Max Verstappen scored his first pole since the Austrian Grand Prix, beating George Russell by just five hundredths of a second in a tight qualifying session at the Lusail Circuit fotr the 2024 FIA Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix. Lando Norris was third for McLaren ahead of team-mate Oscar Piastri. After a disappointing start to
Team mate Max Verstappen, meanwhile, faced a tough start to the Sprint, having experienced some issues with his RB20 that saw him drop places during the first lap. While he managed to recover to score a point in P8, the world champion admitted that the problems could be tricky to solve ahead of qualifying and
Nov 30, 2024, 08:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Formula 1 will become even more a “battle of giants” with the arrival of General Motors’ Cadillac brand as an 11th team in 2026, RB boss Laurent Mekies said. The Frenchman told reporters at the Qatar Grand Prix that the entry of the U.S. carmaker was
Lando Norris gifted team-mate Oscar Piastri a second successive Qatar Sprint victory, swapping places with the Australian just metres before the finish line to give McLaren a one-two finish that extends the team’s lead over Constructors’ Championship rivals Ferrari to 30 points. George Russell finished third for Mercedes ahead of Ferrari duo Carlos Sainz and
DRIVERS 1 – Oscar PIASTRI (McLaren)2 – Lando NORRIS (McLaren)3 – George RUSSELL (Mercedes) TRACK INTERVIEWS(Conducted by James Hinchcliffe) Q: And third place today in the Sprint race, George Russell for Mercedes. Look, you had a very exciting race there with Oscar Piastri. Lost the position off the start, but just walk us through some of those battles and those runs
There were contrasting emotions at the Mercedes team after Sprint Qualifying in Qatar, with George Russell thrilled by his strong drive to P2 on the grid while Lewis Hamilton was downbeat after feeling he was “just slow” in P7. Off the back of his victory last time out in Las Vegas, Russell looked to have
Nov 29, 2024, 03:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Yuki Tsunoda has taken a big step in Formula 1 this year and is ready for a bigger team and a faster car, his RB boss Laurent Mekies said on Friday with the Japanese driver set for a post-season test at Red Bull. The test will
McLaren driver Lando Norris led the way through all three segments of Sprint Qualifying beneath the lights at Lusail on Friday evening, while George Russell elbowed Oscar Piastri out of second on his final flying lap, narrowly denying the title-chasing team a front-row lockout. Can the Woking team continue that form heading into Sprint day
Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorNov 29, 2024, 06:54 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions After securing seventh place on the grid for Saturday’s sprint race in Qatar, Lewis Hamilton was at a loss to explain another disappointing result, saying “I’m just slow.” In his penultimate race
McLaren’s Lando Norris will start the Sprint at the Qatar Grand Prix from the front of the grid with the McLaren driver beating Mercedes’ George Russell to top spot by just 0.063s in a tight Sprint qualifying session at Lusail Circuit. Oscar Piastri took third in the other McLaren as Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz and Charles
F1 – Leclerc beats Norris in sole practice session at Lusail ahead of Sprint Qualifying Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc went quickest in the sole practice session for the 2024 FIA Formula 1 Qatar Grandf Prix beating the McLaren duo of Lando Norris by more than four tenths of a second. World Champion Max Verstappen finished in
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc topped the timesheets in the weekend’s sole practice session, leading the way from the McLaren pair of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri as everyone pushed the limits while the sun set in Qatar. The grid had just one hour to get used to the changes made around the Lusail International Circuit ahead
Nov 29, 2024, 09:54 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Qatar is buying a significant minority stake in Audi’s Formula One team, the Gulf country’s estimated $510 billion sovereign wealth fund and the German carmaker said on Friday. The holding will be almost a third of the team, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters
TEAM REPRESENTATIVES Mike KRACK (Aston Martin), James VOWLES (Williams), Laurent MEKIES (RB) Q: James, perhaps we’ll start with you. Now, it’s been a tough run for Williams of late. Can you just paint a picture for us? How tough has it been, both for the guys and girls here at the track and back at the factory?James
The 2024 drivers’ championship might have been wrapped up by Max Verstappen in Las Vegas, but the constructors’ crown remains up for grabs heading into the final two rounds of the season. McLaren are currently at the top of the standings on 608 points, giving them a 24-point lead over Ferrari in second place on
Associated Press Nov 28, 2024, 12:51 PM ET GARDNERVILLE, Nev. — Mary McGee, a female racing pioneer and the subject of the new documentary “Motorcycle Mary,” has died, her family said. She was 87. “McGee’s unparalleled achievements in off-road racing and motorcycle racing have inspired generations of athletes that followed in her footsteps,” her family
Teams’ title fight roars on As things stand, it’s PREMA Racing who lead the way by seven points — with their efforts headed by Pin and third-place Maya Weug of Ferrari. Pulling has been the driving force behind second-place Rodin Motorsport, accumulating 245 of the team’s 280-point haul. Campos Racing are keeping it a three-way
Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorNov 28, 2024, 02:21 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions George Russell has raised concerns about Formula One drivers being left in the dark over significant changes at the FIA after two more senior figures were fired ahead of this weekend’s Qatar
Tyre and strategy insight With teams only permitted to use a new set of tyres for a maximum of 18 laps during last year’s Qatar Grand Prix – after Pirelli raised concerns over tyre interactions with the kerbs leading to a separation in the sidewall between the topping compound and the carcass cords – Pirelli
Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN Senior WriterNov 28, 2024, 07:38 AM ET Close Alyssa Roenigk is a senior writer for ESPN whose assignments have taken her to six continents and caused her to commit countless acts of recklessness. (Follow @alyroe on Twitter). Open Extended Reactions EVERYTHING HAPPENS FAST in the desert. Day becomes night, night becomes day,
PART ONE – Charles LECLERC (Ferrari), Pierre GASLY (Alpine), Fernando ALONSO (Aston Martin) Q: Charles, perhaps we could start with you. Very good to see you. Now, you cut a frustrated figure after the race in Las Vegas at the weekend. What were your main frustrations?Charles LECLERC: I don’t want to go back to what happened in Vegas.
Building Critical Synergies: FIA supports Euro NCAP Truck Safe Results and Experience Event Last week, EuroNCAP launched the first ever Truck Safe rating, marking a significant milestone in heavy vehicle safety. As a member of EuroNCAP, the FIA emphasised the importance of this new rating and the need to foster synergies across road safety programmes.
In Las Vegas they were again in the mix for points after Pierre Gasly qualified an excellent third, but those hopes faded when he was forced to retire early on. And both Haas and RB took advantage with scores of their own, as Nico Hulkenberg came out on top of a tense fight with Yuki
Nov 27, 2024, 12:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Italian Grand Prix will remain on the Formula 1 calendar at least until 2031 as part of a six-year extension to the existing agreement, which runs through 2025, Formula One said on Wednesday. Dubbed “The Temple of Speed” where drivers often reach more than 350kph,
So Max Verstappen has sealed his fourth world championship title; a feat which seemed an inevitability in March but proved far from it in reality. Throughout this most turbulent of seasons there have been a few key qualities that Max has shown across a few races which have made the decisive difference. Here are five
Marshall Pruett, Racing columnistNov 27, 2024, 10:51 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Logan Sargeant conducted an IndyCar test with Meyer Shank Racing last week at the The Thermal Club in Southern California. Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Picture spending more than half of your life in pursuit of a singular
In part two of the season-closing triple header sequence of races, Formula 1 heads straight to the Lusail International Circuit for the Qatar Grand Prix, a weekend that will also play host to the final Sprint of 2024. Max Verstappen sealed his fourth drivers’ championship last time out in Las Vegas, but there is plenty
Nov 27, 2024, 04:17 AM ET Open Extended Reactions General Motors is coming to the Formula 1 grid in 2026 with a team branded GM/Cadillac, but that doesn’t mean the cars will be all-American. Mario Andretti, who was named to the team’s board of directors, said the GM/Cadillac team is hopeful for a deal with
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