Red Bull’s Max Verstappen held off Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso in a wet and wild 2023 Dutch Grand Prix that saw a late red flag [due to a sudden rainstorm] throw some additional chaos into what had already been a chaotic race. Alpine’s Pierre Gasly finished in the third and final podium position after Verstappen’s […]
Not surprisingly, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen claimed the pole position for tomorrow’s 2023 Spanish Grand Prix, but who will sit alongside him on the front row was somewhat of a surprise – as was who was eliminated in the first two of the three qualifying sessions at Barcelona. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, Jr. will join Verstappen […]
After an unprecedented month off in the early part of the season due to the cancellation of the Chinese Grand Prix – Formula One shook off the rust with a chaotic return to racing in the first practice session for this weekend’s 2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Alpine’s Pierre Gasly had his car catch fire while […]
Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has called out the Formula 1 governing body FiA’s ban on drivers wearing jewelry – labeling it “a step backwards” and “very silly” – six months after the FiA’s fiasco at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix prevented Hamilton from winning his eighth F1 world title. Yet, despite […]
Ferrari went 1-2 in the Formula One 2022 season-opening race as Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, Jr. winning the top spots with Mercedes’ seven-time Formula 1 world Lewis Hamilton claiming the third and final podium position. Leclerc was the pole-sitter ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen entering the race and except for a few brief […]
Conditions were wet for the third and final practice session for tomorrow’s 2021 Turkish Grand Prix and AlphaTauri took advantage of the situation – with Pierre Gasly doing the honors – while Mercedes’ seven-time defending Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton mostly took the day off.
Red Bull’s Sergio Perez won a chaotic 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix ahead of a surprise second place finish from Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel and AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly in the third and final podium position. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc began the race as the pole-sitter but Leclerc was fortunate to be there as a crash just before […]
It was AlphaTauri’s first time on top of a practice session as Red Bull’s junior team recorded the fastest lap – courtesy of Pierre Gasly – in the third and final practice session for tomorrow’s 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix…
Red Bull’s junior team, Alpha Tauri, has launched their new car – which they have dubbed AT02 – for the upcoming 2021 Formula One racing season. Alpha Tauri retains French driver Pierre Gasly – who won the chaotic 2020 Italian Grand Prix – and wound up finishing seventh overall in the driver’s championship. It is […]
Alpha Tauri Formula One driver Pierre Gasly has become the latest Formula 1 driver to contract the Covid-19 coronavirus. The 24-year-old Frenchman is the sixth F1 driver – 30% of the F1 starting grid – to test positive for Covid-19 since last March. Gasly, the winner of last year’s chaotic Italian Grand Prix [above], is […]
French driver Pierre Gasly recorded his first-ever Formula One victory by winning the 2020 Italian Grand Prix – edging McLaren’s Carlos Sainz, Jr. – while Racing Point’s Lance Stroll took the third and final podium position. Mercedes dominated the race weekend and entered the race with six-time defending world champion Lewis Hamilton in the pole […]
Red Bull’s junior team formerly known as Toro Rosso has morphed into something called Alpha Tauri for the 2020 Formula One racing season. [The former Toro Rosso team is now being used to promote a new clothing line produced by Red Bull]. Last year as Toro Rosso, the Austrian-financed team played sixth overall in the […]
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen started in the pole position and won the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix rather easily, however, behind Verstappen, chaos reigned as the race finished with Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly claiming second place and the current world champion, Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton claiming the third and final podium position – for now, pending an […]
Red Bull Racing has demoted Pierre Gasly to their sister team – Toro Rosso – for the remaining nine races of the 2019 Formula One season. Red Bull will promote Alexander Albon in Gasly’s place, to race as the teammate of Max Verstappen, beginning with the 2019 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps when racing resumes […]
What a difference a day makes as Ferrari seemed poised to establish a presence at the 2019 German Grand Prix after a dominating performance in practice sessions – only to have it all go sideways in qualifying – and there was defending Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton to take advantage as Hamilton grabbed the pole […]
Red Bull’s Pierre Gasly, one of the four non-Mercedes drivers – albeit, the fourth – with a semi-reasonable chance of winning a Formula One race in 2019, crashed out in the second free practice session in preparation for this weekend’s 2019 German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. Ferrari dominated the first two sessions with Sebastian Vettel […]
It was yet another Mercedes 1-2 finish – but not as much of a snoozefest as usual with some pit stop strategies and bumper car action intervening – as defending Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton led his teammate Valtteri Bottas to the top two podium spots. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc calimed the third and final podium […]
It was the expected Mercedes 1-2 as Lewis Hamilton grabbed pole position ahead of his teammate, Valtteri Bottas, for the 2019 Monaco Grand Prix. Hamilton took pole by 0.086 seconds over Bottas. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was third, ahead of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel in the second row. The third and final row of possible race […]
Red Bull took the easy route and promoted Pierre Gasly from Red Bull’s junior team, Toro Rosso, to replace the departing Daniel Ricciardo for the 2019 Formula One racing season. The 22-year-old Gasly will now be subordinate to Red Bull’s crash-master, Max Verstappen. Gasly made his F1 debut at the Malaysian Grand Prix in 2018 […]
With the 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix in the books, Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel has taken complete control of the season race so far. Vettel has won both races outright after this weekend’s effort in Bahrain where he somehow coaxed 39 laps out of the soft compound tires to fend off the hard-charging Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes […]