Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto struggled all weekend at the F1 US GP, starting 16th and finishing 18th. It was the first time that the Brazilian rookie failed to make it out of Q1 since Silverstone. The result also marks a three race points drought after scoring in four of his previous six races. Bortoleto “just off”…
Andrea Stella’s hopes for a double championship in 2025 took another blow at the F1 US GP, as Oscar Piastri suffered from a DNF in the Sprint and unusually poor performance during the rest of the weekend. The McLaren driver managed only sixth on the grid for the Grand Prix proper, and managed to improve…
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has come out in support of the super bold strategy call that put Charles Leclerc out on soft tyres at the start of the F1 US GP. He insists it was a well-thought-out risk rather than a last-ditch gamble. The call ended up being a key part of Leclerc’s hard…
An extremely frustrated Pierre Gasly was left bitterly disappointed by Alpine’s performance at the F1 US GP. He finished last of the runners in P19 at the end of the 56-lap contest. By Alpine’s recent standards, qualifying was pretty respectable as the 2020 Italian GP winner put his car in P14 on the grid. It…
Esteban Ocon finished P15 in the F1 US GP following a disappointing weekend for the Haas driver at COTA. He got knocked out in SQ1 and Q1, while Ollie Bearman made Q3 in Grand Prix qualifying. The Brit finished 9th in the race. Starting on hards from P17 on the grid, the French driver passed…
Though Red Bull Racing had an incredibly successful US GP, Team Principal Laurent Mekies reflected following the race on the challenges faced throughout the weekend. Max Verstappen triumphed, winning both the sprint on Saturday and race on Sunday. Second driver Yuki Tsunoda finished both races in P7, an improvement on his previous performances this year…
Following their incident during Sunday’s F1 US GP, both Williams’ Carlos Sainz and Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli gave their comments on the race-defining moment. The duo came together on Lap 6 of the US GP, when Sainz went for a move on the inside of Turn 15. The Williams driver clipped the back of the Mercedes…
Yuki Tsunoda finished the F1 US GP in P7, bringing home 6 points for Red Bull Racing. After starting P13, Tsunoda had a strong start, which helped him on his charge into the points. Along with finishing P7 in the Sprint race, the US GP was one of the strongest weekends for Yuki Tsunoda since…
Toto Wolff and Mercedes left the Circuit of the Americas with little to celebrate after a challenging F1 US GP that saw George Russell only manage sixth, and rookie Kimi Antonelli’s race fell apart following an early collision with Carlos Sainz. Antonelli’s promising start dashed by Sainz Incident The weekend promised much for Mercedes’ young…
A rather angry Ollie Bearman tore into Yuki Tsunoda following the F1 US GP after a close shave on lap 34 nearly led to both of them crashing out. On softs, the British driver had better pace than his Japanese rival in the opening part of the second stint. As he looked to make a…
