Charles Leclerc claimed a brilliant pole position at his home event the Monaco Grand Prix, with team-mate Carlos Sainz starting alongside. Behind the Ferrari’s are both Red Bull Racing cars, however, it’s Sergio Pérez in third with championship leader Max Verstappen in fourth. The Dutchman was furious after qualifying, with the final minute being red-flagged
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Fernando Alonso has accepted that his crash in qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix was his fault, and has therefore offered an apology to his Alpine team. Alonso was gunning to try and displace Lando Norris for P5 and best of the rest having initially set a lap good enough for seventh. However, he overcooked
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Lando Norris performed brilliantly during qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix, despite still not feeling “100%” following his recent tonsillitis diagnosis. The Brit will start from fifth at the Circuit de Monaco, ahead of both Mercedes F1 drivers. Norris has spent the few days between last weekend’s race in Spain, and this weekend’s race in
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo has said that he believed the performance of the MCL36 was all there in the first qualifying session in Monaco, but did not seem to have an answer for why it slipped away. Ricciardo has endured a difficult weekend in the Principality, crashing in FP2 on Friday, before recovering to set 29
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo has promised to brush himself off after the crash he suffered during FP2 at the Monaco Grand Prix on Friday. The Australian had looked impressive throughout the first session as he clocked 37 laps in P7, just over a tenth of a second adrift of team-mate Lando Norris in fifth. The 32-year-old
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BMW motorsport boss Frank van Meel has declared that his company do not have any intention to return to Formula 1 and compete with Audi and Porsche. BMW’s adventure in F1 began in 1952 when they entered a team into the German Grand Prix that year, and then again in 1953. They did not score
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McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has suggested that there are “mechanisms” in place in Daniel Ricciardo’s current deal that could see it cut short before the end of 2023. Ricciardo was given a three-year contract when he joined McLaren last season, but he was out-qualified 15 times by team-mate Lando Norris, who out-raced him by
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Mercedes strategist James Vowles has suggested that fans bring their expectations down a notch or two after the Silver Arrows’ improved performance in Barcelona. George Russell and Sir Lewis Hamilton were consistently running towards the top of the timesheets last weekend in Spain, and at the end of a splendid battle between the 24-year-old and
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After a promising Saturday, it was a Sunday to forget for Daniel Ricciardo at the Spanish Grand Prix, after a “really, really sad race” for the McLaren F1 driver. Ricciardo finished the race at what was a scorching hot Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in twelfth, despite having qualified in ninth. To add to the Australian’s woes,
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen is pleased that George Russell was not awarded a penalty in the aftermath of their battle at the Spanish Grand Prix. Having gone into the gravel at Turn Four, Verstappen collected himself and ended up on the tail of Russell as he tried to retake second place, but the sporadic compliance
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