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Arriving in Monaco as one of just four drivers to have experience around the historic street track in Formula 2 machinery, Ralph Boschung won’t be allowing his familiarity of the circuit to turn into overconfidence, saying that he expects the rest of the grid to quickly get to grips with the unique track. Boschung, Roy Nissany, Guanyu Zhou and Jack Aitken are the only members on the field to have raced around Monaco in F2 machinery before, but never on the 18-inch tyres, a factor that the...

WHEN TO WATCH All times local (GMT +1) Thursday Free Practice: 09:45 – 10:30 Qualifying Group A: 13:20 – 13:36 Qualifying Group B: 13:44 – 14:00 Press Conference: 14:30 Friday Sprint Race 1: 11:45 (30 laps) Press conference: 13:05 – 13:35 Saturday Sprint Race 2: 08:20 (30 laps) Press conference: 09:40 – 10:10 Feature Race: 17:15 (42 laps) Press Conference: 18:50 – 19:20 THE STORY SO FAR The FIA Formula 2 Championship makes a long-awaited return to screens this weekend, as the gr...

Formula 1 The British Grand Prix is set to run qualifying on Friday evening and will be the first to run the new sprint qualifying trial. The race, which will take place mid-July, will be the first to feature a 100km sprint race that will decide the grid for Sunday’s Grand Prix. The Friday qualifying session, which will take the current format, will determine the order for Saturday’s sprint race. This means that there will be only one Free Practice session on Friday which will start much la...

    0 Pedro Acosta heads to a circuit he’s never ridden before in Le Mans with a commanding 51 point buffer in the Moto3 standings after his third win in four races. Pedro Acosta’s third win in four Moto3 races this season has done little to dampen the hype surrounding him, as the 16 year-old Spaniard takes a 51 points lead into Le Mans.  At face value, Jerez seemed to be his trickiest race weekend so far as he needed to advance through Q1, before ultimately qualifying in 13th posit...

Haas had never run rookies in Formula 1 before this season. But with the team now running not one but two in 2021, Team Principal Guenther Steiner has admitted he’s been forced to adapt his tough approach to his drivers – which has made him a star of Netflix’s Drive To Survive series – in order to support Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher. In a bold move for their sixth season in the sport, Haas opted to replace both Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean for 2021, promoting F2 drivers M...

One of the major changes to Formula 1 regulations in 2021 was the slashing of 30 minutes off each of the first two practice sessions of the weekend, leaving the teams with just two hours of running on a Friday. While that may seem a superficial adjustment, the teams have had to make big adjustments to their run plans, as McLaren have revealed... Its easy to overlook the significance of the switch to one-hour practice sessions, given teams are wrestling with new aero regulations this season, pre...

Mercedes on “pulling the trigger” on Hamilton stop Date published: May 12 2021 Andrew Shovlin explained why Mercedes “pulled the trigger” on Lewis Hamilton’s switch to a two-stop strategy that enabled him to win the Spanish Grand Prix. With the World Champion stuck behind Max Verstappen near the DRS window, Mercedes’ track engineering director Shovlin and the team’s strategists pulled Hamilton in for a second stop. The Brit chased down Verstappen by more than a second per lap and...

McLaren drivers “not worried” after low-key Friday Catalunya, Barcelona Spanish Grand Prix – McLaren’s Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo aren’t panicking after a quiet Friday in practice. In the morning session, Norris set the fourth fastest time, with his teammate Ricciardo down in 14th. But in the afternoon session, the team struggled with both drivers failing to make it into the top 10. Norris was down in 12th with Ricciardo in 15th place. The MCL35M has been fitted with new parts ...

A tricky Free Practice 2 for the Spanish Grand Prix saw neither McLaren finish in the top 10, with Lando Norris P12 and Daniel Ricciardo down in P15 despite their cars being fitted with new upgrades for this weekend. But both drivers said they were confident of being in the hunt in qualifying once the data had been crunched on Friday evening. Norris used the updates McLaren have brought this weekend to the front wing and floor to put himself P4 in FP1 on Friday morning, just four-tenths off Val...

Sebastian Vettel is yet to score a point as an Aston Martin driver. But after his AMR21 was fitted with the upgrade in Barcelona that team mate Lance Stroll debuted at Portimao, Vettel was left hailing his best Friday for the team – and targeting his second consecutive Q3 appearance. Aston Martin’s upgrade to the AMR21 focused on tweaks to the front wing, barge board and floor, with Stroll having been the first of the team’s drivers to use it at the Portuguese Grand Prix. But after his fi...