Lando Norris won the sprint thants to team mate Oskar Piastri on Saturday and Max Verstappen finished because of a penalty on P 4 only ….. Things looked even better for Norris putting his McLaren on pole on Sunday morning qualifying because of rainstorms on Saturday. Verstappen had to start from P17 because of an engine penalty….. But the rainy race crowned one superstar: Max Verstappen went from 17 to 1…. Norris from 1 to 6… and two Alpine made it on the...
Carlos Sainz dominated the weekend in Mexico City: the smart Spaniard took pole position and won the race. One of the losers was Max Verstappen who finished only 6th. Lando Norris came in second and kept his world championship chances alive . Leclerc finished 3rd ahead of Hamilton and Russel. Very good performance for the two Haas drivers: Magnussen 7th and Hülkenberg 9th! Piastri as 8th and Gasly as 10th made points as well. For homeboy Sergio Perez everything...
After a view weeks break the US Formula 1 Grand Prix took place in Austin in Texas. Most teams brought up dates toi their cars but had only one hour of testing because of a sprint weekend…. Therefore the order even changed from Saturday to Sunday…. Max Verstappen won the Sprint race in front of Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris. Norris and Verstappen were fighting from the first row but Leclerc passed them both in the first corner. Sainz as well made his way to...
Lando Norris was the king of Singapore: from pole position he dominated the race and won by more than 20 seconds ahead of Max Verstappen who came back to the podium and team mate Oskar Piastri who was 40 seconds behind the winner…. Norris lapped some top ten drivers on . The way to his victory. The following drivers finished 4th to 10th: Russel, Leclerc, Hamilton, Sainz, Alonso, Nico Hülkenberg by surprise and Perez. Verstappen has a more than 5o points lead in...
Baku was a very surprising Formula 1 weekend in many ways: Charles Leclerc took pole for the 4th time but did not win; Perez dominated all weekend Verstappen; Norris had problems in qualifying and started from 15th but finally Oskar Piastri won his second F1 race because of a very good passing on Leclerc and driving superb! Georg Russel finished 3rd by surprise because Sainz and Perez crashed two laps before the checked flag…. Lando Norris came from 15 all the...
The race in Monza looked like to be a race of two McLarens as favorites, two Mercedes and two Ferraris. Red Bull Racing were in big troubles all weekend long and had no chance at all. It looked like Piastri is going for a win in front of teammate Lando Norris after a spectacular overtaking - but only Ferrari decided by surprise to stop only once for fresh rubber while all the other stopped twice…. Suddenly Leclerc was leading and managed his tiers till the...
Lando Norris and his McLaren Team came back very strong from the summer break. Lando took the pole and dominated the race and finished 20 seconds ahead of local hero Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and surprising Charles Leclerc (Ferrari). Oskar Piastri finished 4th in teh second McLaren ahead of Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) and Sergio Perez ( Red Bull). The Mercedes of Russel and Hamilton came only in 7th and 8th in front of Pierre Gasly and Fernando Alonso. McLaren is...
Belgian weather made the weekend a stunning racing weekend: all data from Friday was for nothing on Saturday as it was raining…. Verstappen won die qualifying but had to take a 10 places grid penalty because of engine change.By surprise Charles Leclerc took pole in front of surprising Checo Perez. Sunday´s race was hot and dry again…. Different pit stop strategies made the race interesting and finally George Russel who changed his plan to a one stop was...
Normally the Hungaroring is set to be the second most boring race after Monaco - but this year´s edition was very entertaining because of collisions,bad or wrong timed pit stops, a lot of radio discussions between the drivers and the pit wall …… Finally Lando Norrios had to give back the lead to Oskar Piastri who won his first race. Lewis Hamilton climbed the podium for an impressive 200th time….. Not even Max Verstappen who was flying over Lewis...
British weather over all four days of the event with rain, cold and some sunshine helped to creat a dramatical race weekend in Silverstone. Three British drivers ( Russel, Hamilton and Norris) startet from the best positions in the race on Sunday. Russel was lading at the beginning but had not chance to hold the two McLarens of Norris and Piastri. Two times writing decisions for their pit stops cost Mc Laren a possible 1 -2 and made Lewis Hamilton a winner again...