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Sebastian Vettel slams ‘avoidable’ FIA controversy

Pierre Gasly was left livid at the Japanese Grand Prix after a recovery crane was deployed on track in extreme wet conditions while all 20 cars were still on track, with Gasly in particular still catching up to the safety car. The safety car was caused by Carlos Sainz being caught up in the wet

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McLaren hit out at FIA over Red Bull punishment

The FIA confirmed on Friday that Red Bull will be fined $7m and have their aerodynamic testing time cut by 10% for 2023 as punishment for breaching the 2021 budget cap. The energy drink-owned team were adjudged to have overspend the $145m budget cap by around $2m, with the team suggesting that this was spent

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FIA embarrassingly reverse penalty after successful appeal

Times are certainly tough for the FIA currently, with the governing body having to embarrassingly revert a penalty they awarded to Fernando Alonso at the United States Grand Prix last weekend, after being seemingly corrected by the Oxford Dictionary. Alonso, who crossed the line in seventh at the Circuit of the Americas last weekend, was awarded a

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Double F1 champion makes ‘scary’ admission about Daniel Ricciardo

Daniel Ricciardo has been the subject of a lot of speculation in recent months, with his future being up in the air since it was announced that McLaren would replace him with Oscar Piastri for 2023. The Australian was a rumoured target for Alpine, Williams and Haas however it is now all but confirmed that

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Lewis Hamilton awkwardly dodges question about George Russell

Lewis Hamilton will start the Mexican Grand Prix from arguably the best position, after claiming third for Sunday’s race. Mercedes have arguably looked the strongest throughout the weekend so far and actually topped FP2 and FP3 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit; however, neither Hamilton nor George Russell could claim the team’s second pole of

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Lewis Hamilton facing penalty amid FIA investigation

Mercedes deployed a temporary driver pairing of Lewis Hamilton and Nyck de Vries in practice on Friday, looking to fulfil their young driver requirement for the year, giving the AlphaTauri bound Dutchman a final run out in the W13. Hamilton was the fastest man on track out of the Pirelli tyre test runners in FP2

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Lewis Hamilton claims he sacrificed himself for George Russell and Mercedes

Away from Max Verstappen, who has stormed his way to a second world championship, the drivers’ championship standings remain close between many drivers coming into the final three rounds of the season. This is the case at Mercedes with Lewis Hamilton and George Russell being separated by only 20 points, with the latter having the

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Mick Schumacher admits wish at 2022 Mexican Grand Prix

Mick Schumacher is in the fight of his life to keep his seat at Haas for 2023, with the American team ready to look elsewhere for Kevin Magnussen’s partner. The German has been told he needs to score points between now and the end of the season if he is to have any chance of

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