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Red  Bull’s Max Verstappen continues to lead the championship heading to Canada, but the previous race at Moncao exposed a key weakness of the RB20 over bumps and kerbs that could allow McLaren and Ferrari to get another win in the 2024 season.2024 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix session timings in different …Keep reading

The Dane crashed out of the Monaco Grand Prix on the opening lap after he and Perez collided on the run up the hill after Ste. Devote.Magnussen had tried to drag alongside his competitor but ran out of room as the pair clashed wheels – pitching them both into the barriers and out on the spot. Nico Hulkenberg also got caught up in the melee.Having spent time since Monaco watching replays of the …Keep reading

Rallying, circuit racing, drifting and starring in a hip-hop video are all activities in Kalle Rovanpera’s 2024 ‘gap year’ calendar. It’s fair to say life is pretty good at the moment for the reigning two-time World Rally champion, who has rewritten the record books.The common denominator that links all of these pursuits together, even his brief dalliance into the world of Finnish hip-hop …Keep reading

If you qualify poorly in Monaco, you will finish in a lowly position unless there is some kind of safety car or weather-related chaos. This is the generally accepted way of things around the streets of the Principality.But, while Williams junior driver Zak O’Sullivan was the beneficiary of a virtual safety car intervention on his unlikely journey from 15th on the grid to the top step of the …Keep reading

Organisers have had to battle the elements on numerous occasions this week, with Tuesday’s Supertwin and Superstock races postponed to Wednesday due to poor conditions.Only the Supertwin race ended up running on Wednesday because of rain, forcing the Superstock race to be pushed back to Thursday alongside the second Supersport and Sidecar contests ousted from their Wednesday slots in the …Keep reading

The second Sidecar race of the week was meant to run on Tuesday, but unsuitable conditions forced it to be rescheduled to Thursday.The first race away on the bill on Thursday morning, a crash for the newcomer outfit of Todd Ellis and Emmanuelle Clement at the Waterworks section on the opening lap which brought a red flag.Both competitors were OK but their outfit wasn’t able to be retrieved in …Keep reading

The decision comes in the wake of Arrow McLaren’s rookie Pourchaire being the subject of online abuse after colliding with Juncos Hollinger Racing’s Agustin Canapino in Turn 3 of lap 60 of last weekend’s Detroit Grand Prix.It was the third such incident over the last 14 months as Callum Ilott, Canapino’s team-mate last year at JHR, drew the ire of Canapino’s Argentine fans after the two …Keep reading

Ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix, the FIA outlined the key details of the ‘nimble’ car concept that will arrive alongside the new power units and mandatory use of fully sustainable fuel.Featuring active aero, the new cars will be 30kg lighter than current F1 machinery and will be both shorter and narrower.The wheelbase is being reduced from 3600mm to 3400mm, with the width of the cars dropping …Keep reading

As part of the rules overhaul for the next generation of grand prix cars, the FIA has been working on all-new active aerodynamics that feature moveable front and rear wings.The moveable rear wing will have three elements, while the front wing will have two active flaps. The two wings will work in conjunction to ensure the cars are well balanced whichever mode they are in.F1 has settled on a plan …Keep reading

Formula 1 has had its fair share of scare stories about the new 2026 car rules.From concerns about ‘Frankenstein’ machines, to drivers needing to change down gears on the straights, and then alarm at some simulator tests where cars were spinning out on the straights, it has not been smooth sailing to get where we are today.But with the new rules now having been announced – although there will …Keep reading