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If you’d have said this time last year that McLaren – who had the slowest car at the beginning of 2023 – was going to be quickest at an aero dependent track like Barcelona, most people would have bitten your hand off. If not for losing two positions from Pole and getting stuck behind Russell…
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Esteban Ocon reflects after a mixed Spanish Grand Prix weekend, putting his low-points scoring position down to a lack of downforce which was found during the race. “They (the team) saw a loss in downforce, I don’t know if it is damage or not. We need to investigate if that is the case.” “There was…
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Alex Albon will take a Pit Lane start after Williams chose to make Power Unit changes ahead of the Barcelona GP. Alex Albon qualified P19 for the Barcelona GP, with his teammate alongside him in P20. The Williams has been struggling in 2024, with a vital issue of being overweight. The extra weight the car…
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Trident’s Sami Meguetounif and AIX Racing’s Nikita Bedrin have been handed post-race penalties after the F3 Sprint race at the Spanish GP Weekend. Both drivers were found by the Stewards to have caused collisions. Meguetounif was handed a five-place grid penalty for causing a collision. The Frenchman clashed with his own teammate Santiago Ramos at…
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Juan Manuel Correa has been stripped of his third place in the F2 Spanish GP Sprint race following a post-race time penalty. Correa is amongst a number of drivers who have received post-race penalties from the Stewards. The DAMS Lucas Oil driver finished in P3 – his first podium since he was involved in the…
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Home hero Carlos Sainz topped the timesheet of the Free Practice 3 session of the F1 2024 Spanish GP weekend. He was closely followed by McLaren’s Lando Norris and the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc. However, both Norris and Leclerc found themselves embroiled in road rage on track, with Leclerc seemingly intentionally driving into the Brit.…
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Mari Boya came home under the Safety Car in P1 in today’s F3 Sprint Race, the first feeder series race of the 2024 Spanish GP weekend. The race saw a double DNF for the Trident frontrunners of Sami Meguetounif and Santiago Ramos, and the Safety Car was brought out again on Lap 18 following a…
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Senior figures within the paddock and members of the media received an email following the Canadian Grand Prix containing allegations against Mercedes and Toto Wolff of sabotage towards Lewis Hamilton. The Allegations The writer claimed to be an employee from the Mercedes team, opening the exchange with “some of us in the team are unhappy…
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Rodin Motorsport’s Abbi Pulling topped the timesheet in Qualifying of the F1 Academy 2024 Barcelona GP weekend with a lap time of 1:41.396. Campos Racing’s Chloe Chambers was behind in P2, setting a lap time of 1:41.455. Her teammate Nerea Martí will start P3 in Race 1. For Race 2, Prema’s Doriane Pin will begin…
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The green light indicated the official start of FP2 at the F1 2024 Spanish GP weekend. Gasly led the way for Alpine, with Hamilton following closely. The track temperature had dropped from 48 to 43 degrees Celsius, which favoured the use of soft tyres. Almost everyone headed out, except for Verstappen and Sainz who remained…
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Hitech’s Paul Aron clinched Pole in the Qualifying session of the F2 2024 Spanish GP weekend, while the DAMS of Jak Crawford and MP’s Franco Colapinto posted times within six hundredths of the 20-year-old. Aron’s Championship rival Isack Hadjar had a session to forget, starting both races this weekend in P11. As it Happened Aron…
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Lando Norris pipped Max Verstappen to P1 in the Free Practice 1 session of the F1 2024 Spanish GP. The Brit posted a 1:14.228, with Vestappen 0.024s behind. Carlos Sainz finished in P3 in a quick run on the medium compound tyres. Heading into the weekend, drivers will be faced with extreme tyre degradation around…
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Hitech GP’s Paul Aron led the field in the Practice session of the F2 2024 Spanish GP weekend with a 1:26.922, followed by Van Amersfoort Racing’s Enzo Fittipaldi and MP’s Franco Colapinto within two tenths. The session had a slow start to offset the extreme tyre degradation they’ll face throughout the weekend, with the drivers…
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In F3 practice, at the 2024 Barcelona GP, Martinius Stenshorne, with his Hitech Pulse-Eight, led the grid, putting in a 1:28.774. Behind him, Oliver Goethe and Gabriele Minì. Formula 3 was back and ready to go, from the narrow, tricky streets of Monaco to the aerodynamically challenging track of Barcelona. Barcelona is a track used…
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Ollie Bearman admits he wants to stay focused on his performances this year, avoiding speculation around the possibility of a Haas F1 seat for 2025. Ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix, Ollie Bearman addressed the rumours that he had already signed an F1 contract with Haas. He admitted, “There’s not really any backing to them,”…
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Pierre Gasly has dismissed the idea that being with a works manufacturer is essential for his Formula 1 career, despite reports that Alpine may soon stop using Renault engines. A report this week suggests that Alpine is contemplating closing its engine division in Viry-Chatillon to become a customer team when new regulations take effect in…
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WRT principal Vicent Vosse was frustrated and said BMW ‘will not accept’ Ferrari’s penalty and the leniency shown the #83 after colliding with Dries Vanthoor’s BMW at the 24 hours of Le Mans. Six hours and 35 minutes into the crown jewel race of the World Endurance Championship, disaster hit for BMW. The #83 Ferrari,…