Red Bull Racing keeps winning but not without more controversy. After clinching both the driver’s cup and the constructor’s cup they have been accused of cheating by breaching the cost cap by just under two percent. To save face and put this behind them they immediately accepted the FIA penalty.
Last week it was Aston Martin’s Otmar Szafnauer, this time it’s Alpine’s Marcin Budowski. The upcoming season is already packed with a lot of changes. The French team added one to that list. It has announced the departure of it’s executive director on Thursday. Career Highlights The 44 year old Polish Engineer, came into the …
Lewis Hamilton won the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and also got the bonus point for the fastest lap. In second was Max Verstappen followed by Valtteri Bottas in third. The podium must look like the usual but the race was far from that. Though the title contenders go into the last race tied in the …
After waiting for a long time, the decision has finally arrived. Mercedes has been denied the Right to review. What is the ‘Right to review’? Let us state the official statement stated under Article 14 of the FIA International Sporting Code – A petition for a review must be filed against a Stewards’ decision and …
Only when we were about to close the chapter of São Paulo GP, another twist made its way into the list. Lewis Hamilton was summoned to the stewards. Before you freak out thinking that he lost his marvellous win, let us clarify: After taking the chequered flag at Interlagos, Hamilton “undid his seat belts on …
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Saturday’s FP2 was all about waiting for the FIA announcement regarding the rear-wing of Mercedes and Max Verstappen. Little insight into FP2 Fernando Alonso was P1. He got all the sectors in purple, setting 1min 11.238s on the Interlagos circuit. The other Alpine of Esteban Ocon also gave a good performance, with a P4. The …
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Finally, the wait to know the location of ’TBC’ is over. The race weekend for November 19-21 will now take place in Qatar. It will be the second Middle Eastern country after Bahrain, to hold a race in the 2021 F1 season. Qatar comes into the 2021 calendar after the cancellation of Australian Grand Prix …
Amidst all the chaos going on in the race, where our eyes were busy looking at the numerous overtakes and predicting the weather, Nikita Mazepin was shown a black and white flag. Now, on a typical race weekend, we mostly come across few flags. Those are the yellow, blue and red (not to mention the …
Weekend Review The Silverstone Grand Prix race weekend got underway on Friday with a new format that has never been used. Formula One officials decided that they would spice things up a little bit by having a practice session on Friday as usual. Then a qualifying session would determine who would be in pole position …