Doubts over the participation of the five Lynk & Cos had lingered since Saturday when Cyan warned after qualifying that it would withdraw without action being taken on its problems with the spec tyre. Sure enough, the drivers all received an order to pull in to the pits at the end of the warm-up lap
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Russell engaged in a duel for the final podium place with Red Bull’s Sergio Perez in the latter stages of Sunday’s race at Paul Ricard. The pair made contact at the Turn 8 chicane when Russell made a late lunge, forcing Perez to take avoiding action and run through the corner. Russell was incensed that
Mercedes turned heads in pre-season testing when it arrived in Bahrain with a super-slim sidepod design, dubbed the ‘zeropod’, as one of the biggest design diversions under the new regulations. But Mercedes has struggled to match the performance of frontrunners Red Bull and Ferrari through the early part of the season, finishing a race no
The Ferrari driver stormed to pole at Paul Ricard on Saturday after taking profit of a strategy to use team-mate Carlos Sainz as a tow along the back straight in Q3. With Sainz starting at the back of the grid due to a change in power unit components, Ferrari pre-weekend planned for him to get
The ART driver was investigated by the stewards after Saturday’s race for forcing Marcus Armstrong off track at Turn 11 in the battle for third place. They determined that Pourchaire was “unable to hold the line, ran wide and forced Car 7 off track,” adding that “Car 10 was wholly responsible for the incident.” Pourchaire
Two-time F1 world champion Alonso enjoyed his first foray into sportscar racing in 2018, linking up with Toyota’s LMP1 programme to win Le Mans outright in 2018 and 2019, as well as the World Endurance Championship title. Upon returning to F1 in 2021, Alonso dropped all other outside racing commitments, but has always been clear
The German car manufacturer had come into the Paul Ricard weekend tipped as one of the contenders for a race win, with the ultra-smooth circuit supposedly perfectly suited to its W13. But Hamilton and teammate George Russell could not get near the pace of the leading Ferrari and Red Bull cars, as they ended up
The Briton, hoping to take her seventh consecutive series win in France, faced a fierce challenge to her reign from the young Spaniard, who held provisional pole for much of the session. But Garcia was unable to better Chadwick’s time, finishing in fourth, with a last-ditch attempt from Beitske Visser putting her up into second,
While the majority of teams in F1’s midfield have already debuted a significant update for their cars this season, AlphaTauri has taken a more conservative approach, favouring subtle tweaks instead of large overhauls. But it caused the team to lose ground on its midfield rivals lately, failing to score points in any of the last
Mercedes has made good progress with the difficult W13 in recent weeks, and Russell now feels the team can start to think about challenging for race wins. Over the longer term, he thinks Mercedes’ hard work will ultimately prove beneficial, as the team has already faced development trouble that rival teams may suffer with “later
Spotted in the Paul Ricard pitlane on Thursday, Charles Leclerc’s F1-75 has been fitted with the new design in preparation for evaluation during Friday afternoon’s opening free practice session. Meanwhile, Carlos Sainz’s car has the old design mounted (inset), with it likely Ferrari will look to gather back-to-back data in order to validate real world
The world motorsport governing body is keen to establish the WRC’s future pathway for the next three to five years following the launch of its new-for-2022 Rally1 hybrid ruleset, which is set to run until the end of 2024. Rally1 is the first step towards more sustainable future for the WRC with the regulations focused