Aside from the Visa Cash App RB team, every outfit brought some sort of upgrade to the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The effectiveness of those upgrades is difficult to judge after just one race, although no team appear to have taken a similar step forward to the one McLaren took in Miami. Speaking on The
For the drivers on the Formula 1 grid without a contract for the 2025 season, every race weekend counts. The likes of Ferrari and McLaren are already set for next year while Alpine and Haas don’t have a single confirmed driver yet. Speaking on The Chequered Flag Podcast, racing driver and pundit Alice Powell was
Although Formula 1 drivers get all the credit for any positive result during a Grand Prix, hundreds of members of staff play a crucial role in delivering a successful race weekend. From CEOs to strategists to engineers and the hundreds of people working back at the factory that aren’t seen in the paddock, F1 is
The Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola had some entertaining moments, but former F1 world champion Damon Hill has hailed two ‘very special’ drivers who stood out to him on Sunday. For the first time since 2021, it appears as though Red Bull finally have two competitors on the grid in Ferrari and McLaren. Charles
Aston’s major Imola update, which included a floor redesign, a front wing and diffuser, was shaken down by Fernando Alonso in FP1 before Lance Stroll also received the parts from FP2 onwards. However, on a weekend where rival teams also wheeled out new parts or further dialled in those from Miami, Aston’s upgrades may have delivered
At the end of the 2023 Formula 1 season, few fans would have predicted that Haas would have a key role to play in the driver’s market. Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg couldn’t help lift Haas off the bottom of the Constructors’ Championship but their fortunes have changed this year. A report from Motorsport.com has
This month marked the 30-year anniversary of Senna’s fatal accident at Imola on 1 May 1994, which came the day after Austrian Ratzenberger lost his life in a crash. The death of Ratzenberger, which itself followed a serious practice accident for Senna’s compatriot Rubens Barrichello, shook the Williams driver to the core at the time.
Formula 1 headed back to Imola after the 2023 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix was cancelled due to flooding in the Italian region. This time, the sporting contest went ahead in sunshine throughout. The race was awfully dull until Max Verstappen’s struggles aboard his Red Bull and Lando Norris’s hard tyre brilliance in his McLaren combined to
Red Bull Racing will be looking ahead to the Monaco Grand Prix already after taking a closely-fought victory at Imola through Max Verstappen. The Dutchman was pushed all the way to the chequered flag by Lando Norris who showed that the upgrade McLaren brought to Miami wasn’t just a one-off. Red Bull chief Helmut Marko
The Mexican had failed to make the top 10 in qualifying, knocked out in Q2 with a lap time 0.015s slower than Daniel Ricciardo’s on his RB. Perez started the race on hard tyres in a bid to make the most of any timely safety car intervention, virtual or otherwise, which failed to materialise as
