Valtteri Bottas will lead Lewis Hamilton on an all-Mercedes front row after the Silver Arrows dominated qualifying at the Austrian Grand Prix.
Mercedes had things all its own way at Spielberg with a more than half-second advantage over Red Bull Racing, but it was Ferrari’s lack of performance that shocked most after the Italian team lost Sebastian Vettel in Q2 and Charles Leclerc qualified a lowly seventh.
The battle for pole was a private affair between Bottas and Hamilton, with the Finn taking a 0.122-second upper hand after the pair’s first laps.
Valtteri Bottas has claimed pole at the Austrian Grand Prix in a foreboding display of Mercedes dominance, while Sebastian Vettel failed to qualify for the top 10 in a painful afternoon for Ferrari.
Continue reading on RACERLewis Hamilton completed a clean sweep of all three practice sessions, although with a reduced advantage, ahead of qualifying at the Austrian Grand Prix.
Continue reading on RACERLewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas completed a Mercedes Friday practice clean sweep at the Austrian Grand Prix, but it was Sergio Perez’s third-quickest time for Racing Point that grabbed the paddock’s attention.
Continue reading on RACERFormula 1 may have gone more than 200 days between race weekends, but based on first practice at the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix, absence has done nothing to shake up the competitive order. Picking up where it left off, Mercedes dominated the laptimes.
Continue reading on RACERI preview the upcoming Austrian and Hungarian grands prix with last year’s podcast guests Luke Smith from Autosport and Chris Medland from Racer.
Formula One isn’t the first sport to resume from coronavirus-induced hiatus, but its 15-race, four-continent plan to return to business certainly makes it the most ambitious.
This weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix (5 July), the first of three races in a row, will mark the beginning of a racing schedule of unprecedented intensity. Eight European races are crammed into 10 weeks, and while the sport is yet to confirm the composition of its next tranche of events, its intention is to travel to Eurasia, Asia and the Americas before concluding with three grands prix in Bahrain and Abu Dhabi in December.
F1 is existentially wed to its international footprint. Its ‘world championship’ designation is dependent on the series traversing at least three continents, forcing it into a painful logistical challenge in a time of unpredictable border closures and lengthy quarantine times.
Nate Saunders from ESPN joins us to wrap up 18 weeks of F1 post-preseason and preview the first post-COVID Austrian Grand Prix. We also talk more about the name Dennis.
Episode 1 presented by Mobile Tyre Shop features Australian Formula 1® driver Daniel Ricciardo, who discusses the start of the F1® season in Austria, shares tales of life in lockdown in Western Australia, and offers some insights into his big move to McLaren for 2021.
F1 is almost back but all anyone wants to talk about is the world’s best Dennis and whether the Jim’s franchise should own a Formula One team.
Charles Leclerc’s acting career stalls, F1’s cancel culture axes three more races and no-one can name any animals from Canada.
We consider which Australians are best placed to buy Williams according to our patented F1 Weird Unit Index and advocate for sanctioned doping to make sport more exciting in 2020.
We lament the loss of another questionable F1 title sponsor. Reverse-grid races are suddenly popular. Lawrence Stroll will buy every team (except Williams).
Daniel Abt and Daniel Abt speculate wildly on Sebastian Vettel’s future, the state of Renault’s finances and whether AFL-style tanking will come to F1.
Ferrari blows up the driver market, Daniel Ricciardo blows up Cyril Abiteboul’s heart and the news cycle blows up the timeliness of our podcast.