Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has called upon the FIA to explain in more detail when each flag will be used, after teams “didn’t see” the three red flags at the Australian Grand Prix coming. Sunday’s race at the Albert Park Circuit was certainly a crazy one, with three red flags and three standing starts
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As the drivers headed into lap 55, the Alpine duo of Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon were set to pick up key points for their team in the Constructors’ Championship. When the Haas of Kevin Magnussen hit the wall and brought out the red flag, all the drivers returned to the pitlane, with Gasly in
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Charles Leclerc’s 2023 season continued its downward spiral at the Australian Grand Prix, as the Monegasque driver had his second DNF in three races when Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll shunted him into the gravel. The incident, shortly after the race began, meant the Ferrari driver left Melbourne with zero points, while Stroll would go on
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has opened up about proposed changes to the qualifying format on race weekends, suggesting that it will speed up a decision over his future in the sport. Following discussions among Formula 1 teams, amendments to Sprint race weekends have been agreed, starting at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Baku is the first
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Seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton enjoyed his best weekend of the season at the Australian Grand Prix, with the Mercedes driver having claimed his and the team’s first podium of the 2023 F1 season. Hamilton was brilliant at the Albert Park Circuit and demonstrated incredibly consistent pace, although, it still wasn’t good enough to remain
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Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC) CEO Andrew Westacott has confirmed that an incident which occurred towards the end of the race is going to be reviewed, after a fan was hit by a piece of debris. Spectator Will Sweet was hit by a piece of debris from Kevin Magnussen’s Haas, after the Danish driver crashed
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Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has seemingly put Sergio Perez’s early exit from qualifying at the Australian Grand Prix down to driver error rather than a technical fault, after Perez slid into the gravel in Q1. Perez endured the worst Saturday of his career at the Albert Park Circuit, with the Mexican having slid
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Ex-Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa has revealed that he’s currently looking into whether there is any way he can legally challenge the outcome of the 2008 F1 season, the year that the Brazilian finished second behind Lewis Hamilton. Massa has decided to look into the situation following recent comments made by former F1 CEO Bernie
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Former Ferrari engineer Ernest Knoors has questioned Red Bull’s “weird reaction” to the second red flag at the Australian Grand Prix, after Kevin Magnussen crashed at Turn Two with five laps to go. Race winner Max Verstappen, team principal Christian Horner, and advisor Dr Helmut Marko were all surprised by the late red flag, with
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Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg was caught on his team radio swearing, as he realised that the AlphaTauri of Yuki Tsunoda was closing on him during the Australian Grand Prix. Having started the race in P12, Tsunoda pushed Hulkenberg for points in the final laps of the Grand Prix. The second red flag restart saw chaos
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