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Norris will start ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.Spanish Grand Prix grid: Norris on pole from VerstappenWhat happened in Spanish Grand Prix Q1?Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc set the early pace at …Keep reading

BMW’s Philipp Eng set the pace in opening practice for the sixth round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship at Watkins Glen, but the marque’s sister car crashed in the closing moments.IMSA brings a 56-car field to the classic 3.4-mile road course, which hosted the United States Grand Prix for 20 years, located amid the rolling hills near the Finger Lakes in upstate New York.Nick Tandy set the …Keep reading

Lando Norris snatched pole position from championship leader Max Verstappen late on in Spanish Grand Prix qualifying, finding just 0.02s on his final flying lap to secure his second F1 pole.Verstappen looked set for his eighth pole of 2024 after setting a 1m11.673s on his first tour to make a statement and subsequently upped the ante with a 1m11.403s on his last effort thanks to a tow from …Keep reading

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll have received a reprimand for making contact with other cars during final practice for Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix.Towards the end of Saturday’s FP3 session Leclerc was impeded by Lando Norris through Turn 5, which provoked an angry response from the Monegasque.He pulled up alongside the McLaren and swerved into him, his left-rear …Keep reading

Alpine Formula 1 Academy driver Victor Martins ended a victory drought by claiming his first win of the 2024 Formula 2 season following a dominant performance in the Barcelona sprint race.   Martins took the victory by 4.4s from Invicta polesitter Kush Maini, who dropped back to fifth in the opening exchanges. Juan Manuel Correa completed the podium after pulling off a late move on Gabriel …Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton, Lance Stroll, Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris are all under investigation by Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix stewards following two bizarre separate collisions in final practice.With the last running before qualifying critical for drivers to nail their set-up and tyre preparation ahead of the battle for grid positions, drivers were eager for clear runs.But there were two separate …Keep reading

Carlos Sainz closed out Formula 1 free practice at the Spanish Grand Prix with the best time in FP3, ahead of Lando Norris by 0.03 seconds.Sainz managed to beat Norris’ soft-tyre benchmark in the final flurry of qualifying simulations, doing what the Mercedes duo and Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc could not.A slow start to the session ensured that Lewis Hamilton had the circuit to himself in …Keep reading

McLaren’s Formula 1 motorhome at the Spanish Grand Prix had to be evacuated on Saturday morning as emergency services were called following a suspected fire above the kitchen.Ahead of the final free practice session for this weekend’s race in Barcelona, a host of safety personnel rushed through the paddock to help attend to a fire that had broken out in the area at the rear of what is known as the …Keep reading

The FIA sees no need to intervene in Formula 1’s latest flexi-wing intrigue, Motorsport.com has learned, despite teams openly admitting they need to push the boundaries to be competitive.A recent shift of front wing design direction from Mercedes, which has seen its front wing adopt a greater degree of flexibility to help deliver balance gains, has re-opened the debate about what teams can and …Keep reading

Sauber has refuted that its current lack of performance is related to its new owner Audi focusing most of its efforts on Formula 1’s 2026 regulations.The team is the only one yet to score points after nine races, being hamstrung by pitstop and other reliability issues at the start of the year and, just when it started getting its pitstops under control, the Swiss squad has now fallen back in the …Keep reading