Reigning world champion McLaren, based on the recent winter tests, does not yet consider itself part of the outright top, team principal Andrea Stella said after the final day in Bahrain. After a closed shakedown in Barcelona and two three-day tests
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The second test week in Bahrain is over! Max Verstappen and company can — after a private shakedown in Barcelona and two three-day tests in Sakhir — get ready for the season opener in Australia. The afternoon session passed without major issues. Charles Leclerc and Ferrari flexed their muscles and
Aston Martin’s troubled winter testing was cut short. With just over two hours left on the final day in Bahrain the British outfit halted running. Lance Stroll managed only six laps on the closing day. Over the past weeks Aston Martin has already suffered several disaster scenarios; in the weeks
With two hours left on the clock in Bahrain, Lando Norris has also left the garage. The reigning world champion had to sit out the opening test hours after McLaren ran into a technical problem during the lunch break. Based on footage from the pit lane it appeared to be
The FIA has delivered an initial ruling on the legality of Ferrari’s radical rear wing. On Thursday Lewis Hamilton tested a spoiler that rotates 180 degrees on the straights to let more air through. On Friday the Scuderia reverted to a conventional design, but team principal Fred Vasseur hinted the
Tom Rogers, producer at Box to Box, the company behind the F1 docuseries Drive to Survive, and Liam Parker, director of communications and corporate relations at Formula 1, identify three types of viewers who stream the Netflix series. “The series sparks extra curiosity beyond the day-to-day storylines,” Parker said at
Formula 1 is exploring plans to double the number of sprint weekends per season. That news provoked mixed reactions from the drivers during winter testing in Bahrain. Since the sprint format’s introduction in 2021 — back then with three weekends — the sprint calendar has expanded to six editions per
