Oliver Bearman completed his first FP1 session of the season with Haas on Friday at Imola. Fans had the opportunity to get another glimpse of the Englishman after his spectacular Saudi Arabia debut. Ferrari called up their junior driver for the race in Jeddah after Carlos Sainz had to go hospital with appendicitis. He stepped
After he had also led Friday afternoon’s FP1 action, Leclerc continued as the frontrunner through the early stages of the day’s second 60-minute session when the cars were split across the medium and hard tyres. When they switched the softs for the mid-session qualifying simulation runs, Leclerc set the best time benchmark at 1m15.969s, before
“Last year I would have thought of it. But this year, I’ve been much better with just keeping my mind focused on my job. I’m doing a good job – I’m fast and I’m executing things exactly how I want to. I’ve improved on a lot of my weaknesses and all that hard work has
Motorsport.com has learned that Mercedes has begun an internal reshuffle of its aerodynamics department with Vino departing following six years at the team. He had been principal aerodynamicist from February 2018 until October 2022 when he moved into his current role. The change in aero personnel comes ahead of the earlier-than-expected arrival of two key
But the current generation of ground-effect cars are trickier beasts to make fast, and the challenge involves nailing the right compromise between high-speed and low-speed performance. Throw on top of that the desire to make sure that the car is not too peaky and that drivers have confidence in it so that they are able
Daniel Ricciardo has admitted the Visa Cash App RB driver rues Formula 1 scrapping a ‘scary’ factor, which Stefano Domenicali has stated might now be revisited for 2030. The Australian has seen a lot since Ricciardo first joined the F1 field mid-season in 2011 with HRT. He debuted in the pinnacle of motorsport at the
Mercedes have seen numerous key figures join Ferrari in recent times. Most notably, of course, seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton is headed to the Italian team for 2025. But there has also been movement behind the scenes. This week, Ferrari announced that Loic Serra had joined from the Brackley outfit as head of chassis performance
After his impressive surprise debut in place of the appendicitis-addled Carlos Sainz at Ferrari in Jeddah, Bearman is now finally starting the main challenge of his season in the top categories of single-seaters. Imola marks the first of six FP1 appearances with Haas that were earmarked into his deal as the team’s reserve driver for
Red Bull opened up for first practice at Imola on Friday afternoon with Tom Hart acting as the voice in Verstappen’s ear instead of Lambiase, who is also Red Bull’s head of race engineering. The team explained to Motorsport.com that the one-off situation is being enacted to provide Hart with additional experience working as a
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc topped the opening Formula 1 practice session of the 2024 race weekend at Imola, as the dominant Red Bull team looked unusually vulnerable once again. Red Bull was beaten in Miami – with the aid of safety car timing but also a genuine race day pace deficit to McLaren – but
