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A brand-new circuit will challenge teams and drivers for this weekend’s first-ever Miami Grand Prix, and it’s anyone’s guess whose car will shine brightest in the sunshine state.
Lewis Hamilton chops down a tree. Formula E reveals a series of billboards. We attempt to play the Florida Man game but discover all the stories are fairly grim.
Charles Leclerc will start the Monaco Grand Prix from pole position after a Sergio Perez crash ended qualifying early.
Perez was pursing the dominant Leclerc for pole when he lit up his rear tires at Portier, spinning his car and rear-ending the barrier. His broken car came to rest blocking the track, triggering the red flags that brought qualifying to a premature close.
But Leclerc already had the session well in hand. Not only had he put 0.225s on the field after the first flying laps, but he opened his final attempt with a purple first sector that put him another 0.2s up on everyone else before the red flags flew and called off the session.
Continue reading on RACERMax Verstappen hits back with a crushing victory at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix after Charles Leclerc spins himself off the podium late. Featuring Thomas Maher from Racing News 365.
Max Verstappen led a dominant Red Bull one-two at a wet-dry Emilia Romagna Grand Prix after Ferrari imploded on home soil.
Leclerc was running third entering the final 11 laps of the race when Ferrari rolled the dice on a late pit stop to try to apply pressure to leaders Verstappen and Sergio Perez, who had controlled the race from the first lap.
Perez and then Verstappen followed him into the pits on the following two laps, but with an extra lap of temperature in his tires, the Monegasque was suddenly on Perez’s gearbox and attempting to find a way through. But the title leader over-committed through Variante Alta, clambering over the first set of curbs and spinning backwards and into the barriers on exit, damaging his front wing.
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