Sergio Perez was disappointed to learn that he had been stripped of P4 after qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix for a track limits violation in the second qualifying session. The Mexican had seen one of his runs in Q2 deleted already, and his best lap as a result was only good enough for P13.
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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko has told Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez that tyre conservation will be vital in Saturday’s sprint race in Austria. Verstappen took P1 with a mighty final sector on his final run in qualifying to beat the Ferrari pair of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, who looked set for a
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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko believes that race engineers are making life too easy for their drivers at the moment, and he has called for the regulations to be altered. During the race, there are dozens of radio messages exchanged between drivers, engineers and team principals that entail all sorts of different things. The
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Red Bull’s Sergio Perez does not believe that the upgrades introduced by the team in recent races have been helping his cause. Perez out-qualified team-mate Max Verstappen twice in a row in Monaco and Azerbaijan and, while he went on to win the Monaco Grand Prix, he was comprehensively beaten in the race in Baku
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Red Bull are expected to announce an engine deal with Porsche in the coming days, according to reports. Red Bull’s current deal with Honda expires at the end of 2025, and it was renegotiated after the Austrian side were initially expected to buy Honda’s intellectual property. This would enable them to make their own powertrains,
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has explained that his occasionally fiery team radio messages are demonstrative of his passion for Formula 1. Since he entered the pinnacle of motorsport in 2015 with Toro Rosso, Verstappen has become notorious for one or two outbursts over the radio but, as he has matured, these have mellowed out, and
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Reigning world champion Max Verstappen has revealed the motivational words his father Jos gave him during his junior racing career. Jos raced with Arrows and Benetton in his career, ending on the podium six times, both arriving in 1994. Three years later, he and then partner Sophie Kumpen had a son named Max, and he
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Norris plans to claim the orange wall for himself at this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix. The 22-year-old has always had a playful relationship with the Dutch faithful, who show up in their thousands to attend the Austrian, Belgian, Hungarian and, of course, the Dutch Grand Prix. After Norris’ first Austrian Grand Prix in 2019, which
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo thought that the protestors at the British Grand Prix were Max Verstappen fans due to their orange t-shirts. There had been a threat of a climate protest ahead of the weekend from Just Stop Oil, a group that, on the weekend that Formula 1 announced it had successfully developed carbon neutral fuels
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Red Bull’s powertrain factory in Milton Keynes has been finished, and opened earlier this week as the team look ahead to the 2026 season. The Austrian side have a deal with Honda that sees the Japanese manufacturer continue to make Red Bull’s powertrains until the end of 2025, after they had initially ended their relationship
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