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Jak Crawford became the tenth different winner of the Formula 2 season after executing an undercut strategy on championship leader Paul Aron in the Spanish feature race.Crawford proved his pace across the Spanish weekend to take his first win of the season from Franco Colapinto and Juan Manuel Correa, with the latter likely to steal the headlines after making the alternate strategy work to claim a …Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes’ W15 2024 Formula 1 car has an inherent weakness on tyre performance that is only exposed when pushing at the limit in qualifying.Hamilton qualified third on the grid for Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona – his best result of the 2024 season so far.The seven-time world champion had previously got no higher than seventh in non-sprint qualifying this term …Keep reading

Max Verstappen has urged his Red Bull Formula 1 team to bring more performance to its car after being beaten to pole for the Spanish Grand Prix by McLaren’s Lando Norris.Verstappen and Red Bull headed to Barcelona as the pre-event favourites, but the Dutchman was pipped at the end by Norris, who snatched pole away by 0.020s.While Red Bull had been expected to restore its advantage after a bumpier …Keep reading

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri says he has no answers for his lack of pace in qualifying for Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix, saying his Q3 off didn’t cost him many places.Piastri didn’t set a time in the top 10 shootout after going wide in Turn 12, in sharp contrast with team-mate Lando Norris, who claimed his second career pole.With the pair having been finely poised in qualifying this year, Piastri …Keep reading

Arvid Lindblad became the first repeat winner in Formula 3 this season, registering a comfortable victory by four seconds from Christian Mansell as the current era of F3 clocked up a century of races.Following on from his victory in the season-opening Bahrain sprint race, Lindblad was composed at the front in Spain as he moved to fourth in the standings, just 13 points off new leader Leonardo …Keep reading

The Swiss arbitration court mediating the dispute between the Haas Formula 1 team and Uralkali over the former’s decision to end their sponsorship agreement following Russia’s 2022 Ukraine invasion has issued a ruling.The two sides had been in dispute since March 2022, when it was announced Nikita Mazepin had been let go from the team where he had raced for the previous season and to which his …Keep reading

McLaren is hoping its Team Hub – their hospitality building in the paddock – can be salvaged and repaired in time before the summer break after a fire broke out at the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix.The blaze is believed to have started between the two floors in the team’s semi-permanent building, which made it difficult to identify the source of the fire.Staff and marshals attempted to put it out …Keep reading

Alex Albon will start from the pitlane for the Spanish Grand Prix after taking a new battery and control electronics outside of his allocation for the 2024 season.The Williams driver qualified 19th on the grid in a difficult session for the Grove squad, in which it locked out the back row as Logan Sargeant logged the slowest time in qualifying.Albon has since been equipped with a new energy store …Keep reading

Lando Norris’s pole position for Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix, on a weekend when Red Bull had been expected to dominate, has triggered renewed hope of a super-close season.With the aerodynamic demands of the Barcelona circuit appearing to be the perfect stomping ground for the Red Bull RB20 to stamp its authority on the rest of the field once again, that Max Verstappen did not take pole has …Keep reading

Tomoki Nojiri was declared the winner of a shortened Sugo Super Formula race that featured just two laps of green-flag running in treacherous conditions.The start of the race was delayed following a crash in warm-up for Naoki Yamamoto at the final corner, with the Nakajima Racing driver falling foul of the standing water that had built up as a result of persistent rain since the start of the …Keep reading