The second test day of the second week in Bahrain is already done. Max Verstappen was the first driver on Thursday to clock more than a hundred laps, crossing the start‑finish line 139 times. The quickest time, however, belonged to Mercedes’
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Things haven’t gone Aston Martin’s way during the test days in Bahrain. On the second Wednesday at the Bahrain International Circuit, Lance Stroll‘s spin triggered the first and only red flag of the day. Twenty-four hours later Fernando Alonso picked up that dubious honour. The problems at Aston Martin therefore
Toto Wolff has had enough of all the rumours surrounding the Mercedes team. His squad is not only accused of having found a way to raise the engine’s compression ratio, and reportedly the Petronas fuel is still not homologated. “Maybe they’ll make up something else tomorrow,” Wolff responded. “God knows
The new F1 season is bearing down fast! The countdown is on to the opening weekend in Melbourne. Before the fight for the world championship actually kicks off, Max Verstappen and the rest of the field get two weeks of running at the Bahrain International Circuit. After the closed shakedown
The second Thursday morning session in Bahrain has already wrapped up! Ferrari lost valuable test time because driver Lewis Hamilton had to wait in the garage for a long spell after completing just five laps. Lando Norris and Max Verstappen were duelling to lay down the fastest lap of the
Scuderia Ferrari again grabbed attention during the winter tests at the Bahrain circuit. Where the team had earlier stood out with a striking exhaust concept, on the second Thursday in Bahrain it rolled out a radical change to the rear wing. The slot opening of the DRS system is gone;
Laurent Mekies lays out Red Bull’s exact stance on the alleged ‘engine tricks’. Mercedes have been accused for weeks of deploying a ‘trick’ to raise the compression ratio of their power unit. While Mekies accepts the controversy is certainly not just needless ‘noise’, his team has a single request of
