Michael and Rob dissect the best conspiracy theories about the TV presenters in Formula 1.
The 3rd season of Extreme E is underway! Join James Baldwin and Michael Lamonato for a full team-by-team debrief of Rounds 1 and 2 in Saudi Arabia for the Desert X Prix.
Sergio Perez beats Max Verstappen in another dominant Red Bull Racing performance, while Fernando Alonso secures another podium finish almost four hours after the end of the race.
Sergio Perez beat teammate Max Verstappen to victory at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in another dominant one-two result for Red Bull Racing.
Pole-getter Perez’s race was almost perfect but for his tardy launch off the line that handed an early lead to second-place starter Fernando Alonso — who didn’t need to be asked twice to take the straighter line through the first chicane and take first place.
But it became quickly obvious that the Aston Martin was no match for the Red Bull Racing car. Perez bided his time until lap four, when he blasted back into the lead with the help of a super-effective DRS, and never looked back, with his way being eased by a lap-17 safety car that gifted him an easy pit stop.
Continue reading on RACERSergio Perez and Fernando Alonso share the front row ahead of a five-team battle for the podium, but Max Verstappen is still confident he can crack the rostrum from 15th.
Sergio Perez has taken a second straight Saudi Arabian Grand Prix pole position after teammate Max Verstappen exited qualifying in 15th with a driveshaft issue.
Verstappen was on his first flying lap of Q2 when his driveshaft suddenly let go, forcing him to limp back to pit lane, where his car couldn’t be repaired in time to rejoin the session. Red Bull had just changed the gearbox before FP3 earlier in the day.
The Dutchman won from as far back as 14th at last year’s Belgian Grand Prix. The last driver to win from 15th was Fernando Alonso at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
Continue reading on RACERMax Verstappen beat Red Bull Racing teammate Sergio Perez to top spot in FP3 to sweep all three Saudi Arabian practice sessions ahead of qualifying tonight.
Perez had held top spot for much of the hour thanks to an early run on the soft tires, but a late blast on fresh rubber for Verstappen blew the Mexican’s best time out of the water by 0.613s with a time of 1m28.485s.
Other than requiring a new gearbox before the session, the only blot on his afternoon was a near accident with Lando Norris, who almost ran into the back of the Red Bull Racing car around a blind corner while the Verstappen slowed on a cool-down lap.
Continue reading on RACERThe frontrunners close in on Red Bull Racing’s advantage, but is there a fifth team set to join the lead battle?
Max Verstappen calls in sick, but all focus is on whether Ferrari can turn in a competitive race — and put rumours of backstage tensions to rest.
Red Bull Racing arrives in Saudi Arabia as the overwhelming favourite, but is there hope for Ferrari after a dismal first race?
Mercedes members put their memberships in the microwave, and Rob gives his guide to redacting legal documents.
Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi won’t rule out a reunion with Oscar Piastri despite the spectacular breakdown in relations between the French team and its former Australian junior star.
Piastri’s split with Alpine was one of last year’s major storylines. The Melburnian had been brought through the junior formulae with Enstone and was handed a reserve position with the squad last season, but he unexpectedly defected to McLaren when it became clear Woking had lost patience with Daniel Ricciardo.
Alpine attempted to hold onto Piastri, but the FIA Contract Recognition Board found that it had failed to offer him a valid deal to keep him in 2023 and unanimously sided with McLaren.
Continue reading on FOX SPORTSReigning Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen is likely to extend his stay in the series thanks to the new Gen3 rules, according to Triple Eight team principal Jamie Whincup.
Three-time champion Van Gisbergen is embarking on his 16th full-time campaign in the main game but is out of contract at the end of the season.
The Kiwi has tied his longevity in the sport to the success of the Gen3 rules in improving the quality of the racing after years of increasing downforce made wheel-to-wheel combat more difficult.
Continue reading on FOX SPORTSWhat makes an ideal Supercars season opener?
If you chose a narrow, high-speed street circuit lined by walls, oppressed by a high ambient temperature and threatened by thunderstorms, then you might be about to get exactly what you’re after.
This weekend’s season-opening Newcastle 500 will feature all the above, and as a bonus, no-one will really have driven the all-new cars in anger before they hit the track.
Continue reading on FOX SPORTSTriple Eight managing director Jamie Whincup has blamed Ford for needlessly delaying the Gen3 rules sign-off until just hours before the first round of the season.
Supercars has been preparing for years for the introduction of an all-new car design that the series hopes will improve the quality of racing, but it took until 7pm last night for the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang to be homologated, less than 24 hours before scrutineering was due to begin for this weekend’s Newcastle 500 at midday today.
Homologation, which seals the design and performance characteristics of the two cars, was delayed by months of arguments about whether the two models of car had achieved performance parity.
Continue reading on FOX SPORTSIf imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Red Bull Racing must be absolutely blushing for the number of compliments it’s getting this year.
Last year’s championship-winning team appears to have penned the defining aerodynamic package of this rules era, with most teams gravitating towards its approach over the off-season.
Learning, copying — whatever you want to call it — is the natural way of things in Formula 1.
Continue reading on FOX SPORTSIf you were designing an all-new racing car with barely a few days of testing and with plenty of reliability niggles still to be ironed out, you’d choose a nice, smooth, wide-open permanent circuit with lots of run off and few obstacles as your first cautious outing.
You would never in 100 years choose Newcastle as your first race. But that’s where we’re going this weekend.
The Gen3 Supercars machine has had a difficult gestation. In part that’s an echo of the COVID pandemic, which disrupted development. But it’s also just how all-new rules tend to go.
Continue reading on FOX SPORTSWe often talk about the truism of motor racing that the first person every driver must beat is their teammate.
Less talked about is the constructor-equivalent maxim: never be beaten by your customer teams.
It’s the golden rule of running a race team, and Mercedes broke it in Bahrain, where it was trounced by Aston Martin.
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