Late tyre blowout denies Verstappen victory: 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix lap by lap report
Sergio Perez took a dramatic win in Baku after Max Verstappen suffered a high-speed tyre failure in the final laps and Lewis Hamilton made a crucial error
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McLaren shareholder Mansour Ojjeh, who was a key figure in the team’s early ’80s revival with TAG-Porsche engines, has passed away at the age of 68
Has Formula 1 ever been better? Consider this: at the end of Q2 on a long, 100sec-plus Baku lap, just three-hundredths of a second covered the top five drivers, in…
Charles Leclerc takes pole ahead of Lewis Hamilton in an accident-filled qualifying session, with Sainz, Tsunoda, Ricciardo, Stroll and Giovinazzi all crashing out
The 2021 Singapore GP will no longer go ahead as planned though there are three potential races that could replace it
Jacques Villeneuve’s FW18-3, with which he won three grands prix and famously used to overtake Michael Schumacher at Estoril, is up for sale at a price of £2.2m
Ferrari enjoyed a strong Monaco GP weekend, with Charles Leclerc beating the Mercedes and Red Bull drivers to taking a superb pole, and Carlos Sainz logging his first Maranello podium…
Pierre Gasly topped final practice for AlphaTauri as Mercedes struggled and Verstappen crashed out
Formula 1 continues to dance very dexterously around the challenges of the pandemic in keeping the whole show on the road. But perhaps its greatest calendar-related challenge is set for…
Sergio Perez took a dramatic win in Baku after Max Verstappen suffered a high-speed tyre failure in the final laps and Lewis Hamilton made a crucial error
McLaren shareholder Mansour Ojjeh, who was a key figure in the team’s early ’80s revival with TAG-Porsche engines, has passed away at the age of 68
Has Formula 1 ever been better? Consider this: at the end of Q2 on a long, 100sec-plus Baku lap, just three-hundredths of a second covered the top five drivers, in…
Charles Leclerc takes pole ahead of Lewis Hamilton in an accident-filled qualifying session, with Sainz, Tsunoda, Ricciardo, Stroll and Giovinazzi all crashing out
The 2021 Singapore GP will no longer go ahead as planned though there are three potential races that could replace it
Jacques Villeneuve’s FW18-3, with which he won three grands prix and famously used to overtake Michael Schumacher at Estoril, is up for sale at a price of £2.2m
Ferrari enjoyed a strong Monaco GP weekend, with Charles Leclerc beating the Mercedes and Red Bull drivers to taking a superb pole, and Carlos Sainz logging his first Maranello podium…
Pierre Gasly topped final practice for AlphaTauri as Mercedes struggled and Verstappen crashed out
Formula 1 continues to dance very dexterously around the challenges of the pandemic in keeping the whole show on the road. But perhaps its greatest calendar-related challenge is set for…
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