Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen topped the timesheet in final practice for the Spanish Grand Prix beating Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton by 0.235s with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. The one-hour session got off to a slow start, with just Alpine’s Fernando Alonso on track but eventually more cars appeared and Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez and Alfa Romeo’s … Read more
Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheet in second practice for the Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya beating Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas by over a tenth of a second as Max Verstappen finished in ninth place following an error during his qualifying simulation. Bottas, the morning’s fastest man, set the early pace in the one-hour afternoon session, … Read more
Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas set the fastest lap of the first practice session for this weekend’s FIA Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix, beating Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen by 0.033s, with Lewis Hamilton third in the other Mercedes. In the first part of the session, Lewis Hamilton initially led the way on hard tyres with a … Read more
DRIVERS 1 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing) 3 – Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes) TRACK INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Paul Di Resta) Q: Max, started third, finished second, you had a great jump on Lewis at the restart, you got in front but then you made a small mistake in Turn 14. … Read more
Lewis Hamilton took his second consecutive Portuguese Grand Prix victory after passing both Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas in a close battle at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve. Verstappen took second place ahead of Bottas but had to cede the point for fastest lap to the Finn after exceeding track limits during a last lap … Read more
Valtteri Bottas beat Lewis Hamilton by just seven thousandths of a second to claim the 17th pole position of his career, as Mercedes locked out the front row of the grid for the 2021 FIA Formula 1 Portuguese Grand Prix. Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen finished third ahead of team-mate Sergio Pérez. In the opening stages … Read more
Valtteri claimed the17th pole position of his career and first of the season. Lewis was 0.007s behind in P2 to complete the lockout. Both drivers will start tomorrow on the Medium compound tyre, as will the two Red Bulls in the second row. Today marks the 75th front row lockout for the Mercedes F1 Team in the … Read more
DRIVERS 1 – Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes) 2 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 3 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull) TRACK INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Paul Di Resta) Q: Max, I know you’re not going to be happy with that, you’re lining up P3. You actually set the quickest lap time of that session but you got track limits. … Read more
Carlos Sainz will start the Portuguese Grand Prix from the third row and Charles Leclerc from the fourth. The race at the Algarve International Circuit gets underway tomorrow at 15 local (16 (CET.) Q3. Along with only the two quickest teams, Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow managed to get both its drivers into the final part … Read more
MAX VERSTAPPEN, Position: 3rd, 1:18.746 (Practice 3 – P1, 1:18.489) “Third is of course not what we wanted but it’s not too bad after I had a Q3 lap time deleted, which would actually have put us fastest even though I lost time with the snap at Turn 4. We struggled with the balance in … Read more