Category: Formula 1
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Norris: Verstappen knows “deep down” that Mexico GP manoeuvre was wrong
Lando Norris believes that Max Verstappen knows “deep down” that he was in the wrong during the Mexican Grand Prix, and that the three-time Formula 1 champion should know what to change in future.Verstappen collected two 10-second penalties for a pair of 10th-lap incidents with Norris in Mexico, one for running Norris out of road…
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Verstappen on Mexico GP criticism: “I’m a three-time champion, I know what I’m doing”
Max Verstappen says he doesn’t listen to criticism about his Formula 1 racing conduct at the Mexican Grand Prix, asserting that “I know what I’m doing”.The Red Bull driver faced numerous questions in the aftermath of the Mexico race, in which he was penalised twice for incidents involving title rival Lando Norris – ultimately adding…
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F1 needs permanent stewards with “real salaries” – Russell
George Russell reckons it is time the FIA has full-time employed, professional race stewards to improve consistency and help drivers interpret the guidelines.It comes after explosive races at the US GP in Austin and especially the Mexican Grand Prix, where Max Verstappen was issued with two 10-second time penalties.Verstappen was penalised for forcing title rival…
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Verstappen: I have the wrong passport for the F1 paddock
Max Verstappen says he “has the wrong passport” for the Formula 1 paddock amid fierce criticism over his driving tactics in last week’s Mexican Grand Prix.In Mexico City, Verstappen was handed a double 10-second penalty for two incidents in which he forced McLaren title rival Lando Norris off the track, which caused unease from various…
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Mercedes car the “most inconsistent” the team has ever had, says Russell
George Russell believes the current Mercedes Formula 1 car is the “most inconsistent” the team has ever had, as it continues experiments on its upgrade package in Brazil.With Russell and Lewis Hamilton having both endured crashes with the latest version of the W15 since the United States Grand Prix, Mercedes is trying to get to…
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Herbert: Mexico penalties “won’t stop” Verstappen aggression towards Norris
Former Formula 1 driver turned FIA steward Johnny Herbert does not expect a pair of 10-second sanctions at the Mexico Grand Prix will stop Max Verstappen from being aggressive in combat with title rival Lando Norris.One week on from a controversial off-track overtake from Norris, which saw the McLaren driver handed a five-second penalty in…
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How Ferrari has disrupted F1’s McLaren vs Red Bull battle
Amid all the attention on the fight between McLaren and Red Bull, Ferrari has quietly snuck into the 2024 Formula 1 title fight. How did the Scuderia make it a three-horse race? And can it pull it off?Ferrari showed a much more competitive face in 2024, pairing solid one-lap performance with much-improved long runs, which…
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Alonso to arrive late in Brazil after treatment for intestinal infection
Fernando Alonso will be a late arrival at Formula 1’s Brazilian Grand Prix, after needing to return to Europe for treatment for an infection after the Mexico City Grand Prix.The Spaniard had been unwell in the build-up to last weekend’s race, missing the media day but recovered in time to compete through the three days…
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Horner outlines Red Bull’s “biggest challenge” in Brazil after Mexico pain
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has insisted the “biggest challenge” for Formula 1’s reigning constructors’ champions at the upcoming Brazilian Grand Prix weekend will be to match McLaren’s end-of-stint pace.Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have consistently outperformed rivals as tyre stints go on in races in recent months, often hanging back and preserving their…
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Sauber signs former Ferrari race strategist Rueda in latest management shake-up
Sauber has signed former Ferrari Formula 1 head of race strategy and sporting director Ignacio Rueda as part of its latest management changes.The Spaniard will take over the sporting director role from long-time Sauber head Beat Zehnder, who has been moved into a new position of director of signature programs and operation in 2025.Zehnder, an…
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Red Bull “can only do so much” for Perez as future hangs in balance
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has insisted his team has done all it can to support a struggling Sergio Perez after a nightmare home weekend in Mexico.Perez was eliminated in Q1, copped a time penalty for parking forward of his grid spot and then went on to lose further ground after he and RB’s…
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Help wanted: Mercedes is hiring a fashion manager for George Russell and Kimi Antonelli
Calling all F1 fans with impeccable sartorial taste. Mercedes is hiring a driver clothing executive to manage George Russell and Kimi Antonelli’s off-track attire. The new role, as Motorsport.com understands, was born out of necessity amid the team’s growing roster of brand partners and the number of ensembles worn by the drivers at appearances throughout each…
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Colapinto questions consequence-based penalty for Lawson clash
Franco Colapinto has conceded he “doesn’t fully agree” with the stewards’ decision to punish him with a 10-second penalty for late-race contact with Liam Lawson in Formula 1’s Mexico Grand Prix.The Williams driver was attempting a pass on his RB rival around the outside of Turn 1 in the closing stages of the race when his…
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Honda and Alpine fined by FIA over F1 engine cost cap breach
Formula 1 power unit manufacturers Honda and Alpine (Renault) have agreed to pay fines for procedural breaches of the FIA’s engine cost cap rules.Honda will pay $600,000, while Alpine’s fine amounts to $400,000, after both manufacturers settled for a so-called Accepted Breach Agreement with the FIA.In its report the FIA said Honda Racing Corporation (HRC)…
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How F1 teams bucked historic trend in fight for victory in Mexico
The high altitude of Mexico’s Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Autodromo has always been an outlier, with the thin air impacting downforce choices as well as the need for extra cooling for the power unit, electronics and brakes.In this respect, regardless of the high top speeds being encountered, the cars are traditionally set up in their maximum…
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Ladies first: The travel startup bringing together female F1 fans
“This isn’t Formula 1 Fyre Fest,” Alexandra Zigrang assures through a laugh.Just a year in, her Barcelona-based trackside travel company, Off to the Races, has been far from a failure. Unlike the infamous music festival that promised luxury thousand-dollar villas only to deliver emergency tents and cheese sandwiches instead. The company offers female travelers what…
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How Mexico penalties finally set the right standard for punishing Verstappen’s tactics
Here we go again. There’s still a sprint and a grand prix left in Formula 1’s penultimate triple-header of the year for things to get ugly at least a third time in this run between 2024 title contenders Max Verstappen and Lando Norris and up next after Brazil is Sin City…Given last Saturday’s news that the…
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Lawson apologises for giving Perez the middle finger at F1’s Mexico GP
Liam Lawson has apologised to Sergio Perez for showing him the middle finger during their intense battle in Formula 1’s Mexico Grand Prix.The New Zealander came to blows with his rival at Turn 4 on lap 19 where, after being pushed wide as the Red Bull attempted an overtake, he kept his foot in and…
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Ferrari blames backmarkers ignoring blue flags for lost 1-2
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur believes that Formula 1’s backmarkers disobeying blue flags ultimately cost Charles Leclerc second in the Mexico Grand Prix.Leclerc had a gap of over three seconds to Lando Norris going into the final 15 laps of the 71-lap affair at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez but had to watch his advantage dissipate…
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Colapinto dismisses 2025 RB F1 rumours after Mexico GP
Williams driver Franco Colapinto has dismissed rumours he is in the frame for a seat at Red Bull’s RB Formula 1 team, suggesting he will be on the sidelines in 2025.Colapinto wowed the F1 paddock with his strong performances and calm attitude as a mid-season replacement for Logan Sargeant at Williams. In his five races…
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Seven things we learned at the 2024 Mexico Grand Prix
Another weekend, another Ferrari win overshadowed by squabble between title contenders. Carlos Sainz’s crushing dominance of proceedings in Mexico fulfilled his prime objective of picking up at least one more win before leaving Ferrari at the end of 2024, but his presence on the TV screens was distinctly secondary to replays of Max Verstappen earning…
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Perez: Lawson doesn’t have the right attitude for F1
Red Bull’s Sergio Perez has criticised RB driver Liam Lawson’s attitude after the pair came to blows in Formula 1’s Mexican Grand Prix.Perez and Lawson, the driver who is aiming to take his Red Bull seat, clashed in Turn 4 when the former attempted to overtake the New Zealander on lap 19.Perez claimed the left-hand…
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Sainz: I deserved one more F1 win before leaving Ferrari
Sainz ceded the lead from pole to Max Verstappen but reclaimed his position at the front on lap nine with a DRS pass on the championship leader into Turn 1.This was a lead that Sainz continued to build, ensuring that he had plenty of margin to absorb any brief moments of pressure from team-mate Charles…
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Horner doubts Norris would have made corner in Mexico Turn 4 Verstappen clash
Christian Horner doubts that Lando Norris would have made it through Turn 4 without going off track in his battle with Max Verstappen in the first of two Mexican Grand Prix incidents that awarded the Dutchman a 10-second penalty.Norris made a move on the outside of Verstappen at Turn 4 of lap 10 after closing…
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FIA assessing if Leclerc’s Mexico press conference swearing needs investigation
The FIA is assessing if Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc should be investigated and possibly punished for swearing in the Mexico Grand Prix press conference, Motorsport understands.The incident follows Red Bull’s Max Verstappen receiving a community service punishment for swearing in the build-up to last month’s Singapore GP, which led to the Dutchman boycotting FIA press…
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Verstappen: I ended up in penalty situations because Red Bull is “too slow”
Max Verstappen says the lack of race pace in his Red Bull Formula 1 car was the main factor in his incidents with Lando Norris at the Mexican Grand Prix, which led him to serve 20 seconds’ worth of penalties.Verstappen ran Norris off the road twice on lap 10 at Turn 4 and Turn 7,…
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Piastri slates “very poor mistake” that led to Mexico Q1 exit
Oscar Piastri has conceded the error that saw him eliminated from Q1 for Formula 1’s Mexican Grand Prix was a “very poor mistake”.The McLaren driver went off the track at Turn 12 in the opening phase of qualifying, with his car bottoming out over the kerbs. His lap time was deleted for crossing the track…
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Perez puzzled by brake issues in Mexico F1 qualifying disaster
Sergio Perez says braking issues were behind his painful Q1 elimination at his Mexican Grand Prix home race, explaining he “could not stop the car” at the end of the straights.Perez only managed the 18th-fastest time in Q1 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, missing the cutoff by two tenths and joining McLaren driver Oscar Piastri…
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F1 Mexico GP: Sainz storms to pole ahead of Verstappen, Norris
Carlos Sainz scorched to pole for the Mexican Grand Prix with a 0.225-second advantage over Formula 1 championship leader Max Verstappen.Sainz was in imperious form throughout the session and found two times good enough for pole – opening his Q3 run with a 1m16.055s and improving on his final run to a 1m15.946s to line…
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F1 team-mates’ qualifying battles: Mexico GP
After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport.com publishes each team’s qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don’t alter the statistics.When a driver can’t put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.Read…
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Stella critical of McLaren’s Mexico GP qualifying execution as Norris hits “limit”
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella reckons the team’s execution let it down in Mexico Grand Prix qualifying and felt pole was possible.But Lando Norris, who was quickest in both Q1 and Q2, suggested he had hit the limit of potential in his car.He was unable to hit the ground running at the start of Q3 and…
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Tsunoda will get Red Bull F1 run in end-of-year Abu Dhabi test – Horner
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has confirmed that Yuki Tsunoda will drive the team’s RB20 in Formula 1’s end-of-season Abu Dhabi test.RB driver Tsunoda has only had experience of Red Bull machinery in demo runs, although tried the Red Bull RB18 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in an open-face helmet and goggles.Honda has…
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Russell crashes out of FP2 at Mexico GP, causes red flag
George Russell endured a hefty crash in Formula 1’s second practice session at the Mexican Grand Prix to introduce a lengthy red flag.The Briton took too much kerb at Turn 9 and it visibly upset his Mercedes’ handling as the rear of the car began to bounce, pitching Russell into the Tecpro barrier sideways.Russell was…
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F1 Mexico GP: Sainz fastest in FP2 after Russell high-speed spin
Carlos Sainz topped FP2 at Formula 1’s 2024 Mexican Grand Prix, where George Russell crashed hard, Max Verstappen suffered repeat engine issues and the running was dominated by Pirelli’s tyre test.In the extended 90-minute session, McLaren’s Lando Norris led the pack out of the pits and duly shot to a 1m19.895s using the 2025 prototype…
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Verstappen’s Friday “useless” after engine issue hampered Mexico GP practice
Max Verstappen rued “useless” Friday practice at Formula 1’s Mexico Grand Prix, following a series of power unit issues that hampered his running throughout the day.Verstappen reported there was “something wrong” with his engine at the end of FP1, which caused him to miss the final five minutes of running in the opening hour-long session.This…
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FIA stewards reject McLaren’s Right of Review petition over Norris’s Austin penalty
McLaren has had it request for a Right of Review into Lando Norris’s Austin penalty rejected by the FIA stewards for last weekend’s Formula 1 race.McLaren had argued that the stewards made an incorrect statement – and overall call – in handing Norris a penalty in Document 69 (from the FIA timing system) of the…
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McLaren instigates right of review over Norris’s US GP penalty racing Verstappen
McLaren has instigated a right of review request into Lando Norris’s penalty in Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix – the first step in trying to get the sanction overturned.Norris was hit with a five-second penalty for overtaking Red Bull’s Max Verstappen off the track as they duelled late in the race at Austin.The right…
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Norris maintains opposition to US GP penalty
Lando Norris maintained his opposition to the stewards’ call to penalise him for passing Max Verstappen off-track at the United States Grand Prix, stating that he was no longer the attacking driver in that scenario.The incident between Norris and Verstappen earned the Briton a five-second penalty as he was deemed to have left the track…
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Verstappen says racing rules “over-regulated” amid Norris US GP fight fallout
Max Verstappen feels the current Formula 1 racing guidelines are over-regulated, as he refuted claims that he never intended to make Turn 12 in his United States Grand Prix fight with Lando Norris.Both Verstappen and Norris went off at Turn 12 on the 52nd lap of the race at Austin when Norris was attempting to…
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Verstappen says racing rules “overregulated” amid Norris US GP fight fallout
Max Verstappen feels the current Formula 1 racing guidelines are overregulated, as he refutes claims that he never intended to make Turn 12 in his United States Grand Prix fight with Lando Norris.Both Verstappen and Norris went off at Turn 12 on the 52nd lap of the race at Austin when Norris was attempting to…
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McLaren instigates right of review over Norris’s US GP penalty
McLaren has instigated a right of review request into Lando Norris’s penalty in Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix – the first step in trying to get the sanction overturned.Norris was hit with a five-second penalty for overtaking Red Bull’s Max Verstappen off the track as they duelled late in the race at Austin.The right…
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The story behind the “Goodbye Daniel Ricciardo” books of the U.S. Grand Prix
In the fan zone at the Circuit of the Americas, next to a jar of earplugs and a few feet from an industrial sized jug of free sunscreen, sat a 3-inch thick book with heavy blank white pages. Fans were shuffling from the midday heat into the tent where the book sat, writing notes in…
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Perez: “I know I’ve had a terrible season”
Red Bull Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez has acknowledged he has had a “terrible season” and is desperate to gift his Mexican home fans a big result this weekend.Perez started the season in strong enough shape to earn a new two-year deal at Red Bull, but like last year his form tailed off dramatically from…
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Norris still disagrees with Austin F1 penalty: ‘Verstappen went in too hard’
Lando Norris maintained his opposition to the stewards’ call to penalise him for passing Max Verstappen off-track at the United States Grand Prix, stating that he was no longer the attacking driver in that scenario.The incident between Norris and Verstappen earned the Briton a five-second penalty as he was deemed to have left the track…