Red Bull have decided to drop Alex Albon and will replace the young Thai driver with either Sergio Perez or Nico Hulkenberg, an informed source told Formula1News.co.uk on Monday. “The team has decided that Albon isn’t up to the task and a stronger driver is needed next year, as Red Bull will be looking to
MoreThe Mercedes F1 Team have won their seventh consecutive constructors’ title as Lewis Hamilton led home a Silver Arrows one-two at Imola. Valtteri Bottas started the grand prix on pole position but his race was compromised after his car was damaged on the second lap of the grand prix, and Hamilton later benefitted from a
MoreYuki Tsunoda currently sits third in the Formula Two Drivers’ Standings, 44 points adrift of Championship leader Mick Schumacher. Trevor Carlin, team principal of the team Tsunoda races with, has said he believes Schumacher and the young Japanese talent will both be in Formula One next year. READ: Lamborghini Price – How Much Does A
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The Eifel Grand Prix looked set to be another typically poor weekend for Alex Albon, with him only managing P5 in qualifying after setting a best lap time half-a-second slower than team-mate Max Verstappen’s fastest Q3 run. However, the race proved to be one of his worst performances at Red Bull. READ: Watch: Kimi Raikkonen
MoreScuderia AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly has insisted that his demotion from Red Bull last year didn’t break him despite it being a signficant setback. In a recent interview, Gasly said: “I think on my side, I am still the same. I think that [being dejected] is what people were expecting of me from the outside
MoreScuderia AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost has tipped Pierre Gasly, who recently took the team’s first win in over a decade, to become a Formula One champion. “He has the potential to become a champion. I expect that Pierre – if he continues to develop in this way – will be one of the big
MoreMclaren and AlphaTauri had a reasonably strong qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday, but they are likely to struggle if it rains during the race. Mclaren drivers Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris qualified seventh and tenth, respectively, while Daniil Kvyat and Pierre Gasly will start the race just outside the top 10 in
MoreAmid speculation that Alex Albon could be demoted to Scuderia AlphaTauri, Helmut Marko, the head of Red Bull’s driver development program, has said they will not switch him out for another driver as long as he keeps developing. In an interview with the Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper, Marko admitted that Albon “looked stupid” at last weekend’s
MoreScuderia AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost has described Yuki Tsunoda as a “fantastic driver” and said he will race for the F1 team “sooner or later”. In an interview with the Italian edition of Motorsport.com, Tost hailed the Japanese driver’s performance in Formula 3 last year and said he is continuing to develop as a
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