The Chinese Grand Prix’s Chaotic Return and Cloudy Future
Online ticket sales for the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix launched at 8 p.m. China Standard Time on January 9th of this year, and by 8:01 the operation was in trouble.…
WIN! A VIP Race Weekend Experience in Monaco
This incredible experience is just part of the incredible prize up for grabs in the MoneyGram Monaco Dream Weekend competition with the MoneyGram Haas F1 Team, which is giving fans…
Niki Lauda’s 1976 German GP helmet to be auctioned at Miami GP
Three-time Formula 1 world champion Lauda survived the crash at the Nurburgring, even though his crash helmet was torn from his head during the brutal head-on impact with the barrier,…
Why Herbert prefers a car he had to wrestle above his F1 winners
Johnny Herbert won the Le Mans 24 Hours with a Mazda 787B – a firm favourite among sportscar fans – and three Formula 1 races in Benetton and Stewart machinery.…
Ocon wants set-up changes after China F1 sprint as “performance left on the side”
The Frenchman was granted Alpine’s new floor upgrade initially pencilled in for Miami, as one undertray construction was fast-tracked in time for the Chinese Grand Prix.This new floor features changes…
F1 Chinese GP qualifying – Start time, how to watch, TV channel
As part of the new sprint format for 2024, qualifying will occupy its usual Saturday afternoon slot. This means the 60-minute pole shootout is now scheduled a few hours after…
F1 Chinese GP Sprint race: Start time, how to watch, TV channel
As part of the new weekend format for 2024, the sprint race will be held on Saturday morning before qualifying for the grand prix later in the day.McLaren’s Lando Norris…
F1 teams and Pirelli had no warning of “painted” Shanghai track surface
With F1 teams having done a lot of pre-event work in the simulator based on information from both Pirelli and the FIA, they were caught out when they arrived at…
Red Bull 2025 F1 driver decision will be made “much later in the year”
Red Bull already has Max Verstappen under contract for 2025, while Perez has impressed in the opening part of the 2024 season to ensure he is likely to retain his…
Sainz will have to “survive with what we have” in China F1 sprint
Sainz qualified fifth and team-mate Charles Leclerc seventh as the Ferraris struggled to get their tyres warmed up in a rainy end to Friday’s sprint qualifying.Leclerc went off when it…
FIA still chasing answers over bizarre Shanghai F1 grass fires
First practice on Friday morning had to be red-flagged after a fire erupted on the grass on the inside of Turn 7 at the Shanghai International Circuit.The same section later…
Hamilton expects to lose positions if F1 China sprint is dry
Hamilton was one of the standout performers of a wet final qualifying segment on Friday afternoon, taking second behind McLaren’s Lando Norris.The seven-time world champion said his car “came alive”…
Verstappen ‘deserves’ fourth in China F1 sprint qualifying with wet struggles
Having claimed every pole position so far in the 2024 F1 season, Verstappen looked strong favourite again after topping Q2 of sprint qualifying in the dry.But as rain fell at…
Why Norris’s China F1 sprint pole lap was deleted and reinstated
Rain made the already slippery Shanghai surface even more treacherous and Friday afternoon’s final segment of sprint qualifying was peppered with incidents, with world champion Max Verstappen going off twice…
F1 Chinese GP: Norris time reinstated for sprint pole, Hamilton second
Rain emerged at the end of the SQ2 session and continued to pepper the Shanghai circuit during the intermission, necessitating the use of intermediate tyres for the final stage of…
Norris’ China F1 sprint pole lap down to “all-or-nothing” approach
Norris had his penultimate timed lap deleted for track limits at Turn 16, but his 1m57.940s follow-up ultimately proved unbeatable during a wet and slippery final part of sprint qualifying…
2024 F1 Chinese GP sprint qualifying results: Lando Norris takes pole
Norris will start ahead of Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three quickfire segments with five cars each being…
F1 team-mates’ qualifying battles: Chinese GP
After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport.com publishes each team’s qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don’t alter the…
Audi a player, not a spectator, in F1 driver market – Sauber
Ahead of what is expected to be a pretty intense silly season as drivers vie for the best cockpits, Audi has found itself at the centre of the market talk…
Mercedes joins Williams and RB with ‘quick and cheap’ F1 cockpit airflow upgrades
While teams are often reluctant to introduce major development packages for sprint race weekends, because of limited track running, it does not prevent them seeking gains in other ways.And interestingly,…