Aside from the Visa Cash App RB team, every outfit brought some sort of upgrade to the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The effectiveness of those upgrades is difficult to judge after just one race, although no team appear to have taken a similar step forward to the one McLaren took in Miami. Speaking on The Race Podcast, journalist Scott Mitchell-Malm was far from impressed by one team’s offering. While McLaren and Red Bull appear to the teams capable of challenging for race wins, the groups that teams are racing in further down the grid appear to be shifting. Before, there were five teams clear at...
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Although Formula 1 drivers get all the credit for any positive result during a Grand Prix, hundreds of members of staff play a crucial role in delivering a successful race weekend. From CEOs to strategists to engineers and the hundreds of people working back at the factory that aren’t seen in the paddock, F1 is a team sport with two key protagonists within each manufacturer. Former world champion Damon Hill was reflecting on the race for Sky Sports F1 (19/5 4:10pm) and wanted to give credit to one member of staff within the McLaren team. In the past 12 months, no Formula 1 team has enjoyed a b...
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For the drivers on the Formula 1 grid without a contract for the 2025 season, every race weekend counts. The likes of Ferrari and McLaren are already set for next year while Alpine and Haas don’t have a single confirmed driver yet. Speaking on The Chequered Flag Podcast, racing driver and pundit Alice Powell was far from impressed with one driver in a precarious position. Two seats on the grid are still available that nearly every driver will be coveting. The first is at Mercedes, although team principal Toto Wolff appears to have his eye on youngster Andrea Kimi Antonelli. The other seat is a...
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The Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola had some entertaining moments, but former F1 world champion Damon Hill has hailed two ‘very special’ drivers who stood out to him on Sunday. For the first time since 2021, it appears as though Red Bull finally have two competitors on the grid in Ferrari and McLaren. Charles Leclerc became the first Ferrari driver to stand on the podium at Imola since Michael Schumacher in 2006 and the visiting fans made their feelings very clear about another strong performance from the Monegasque driver. He did well to hold off the charging Oscar Piastri who appears to h...
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At the end of the 2023 Formula 1 season, few fans would have predicted that Haas would have a key role to play in the driver’s market. Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg couldn’t help lift Haas off the bottom of the Constructors’ Championship but their fortunes have changed this year. A report from Motorsport.com has explained some of the options available to Ayao Komatsu for next year. There is one certainty when it comes to the Haas driver line-up for 2025 and that’s the confirmed absence of Hulkenberg. The experienced German has been brilliant this year and earned himself a move to Sauber ...
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Red Bull Racing will be looking ahead to the Monaco Grand Prix already after taking a closely-fought victory at Imola through Max Verstappen. The Dutchman was pushed all the way to the chequered flag by Lando Norris who showed that the upgrade McLaren brought to Miami wasn’t just a one-off. Red Bull chief Helmut Marko was speaking to De Telegraaf after the race and previewing the next race in Monaco. The race in the principality is unique on the calendar and not just for the glamour surrounding the event. There are several street circuits in Formula 1 these days, but Monaco is by far the harde...
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Although the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix wasn’t the most thrilling race of the season, several drivers will look back very fondly at their weekend. Max Verstappen produced his best win of the season and Lando Norris will be delighted with the progress McLaren have made this year. Karun Chandhok was commentating on the race for Sky Sports F1 (19/5 2:38pm) and spotted another driver who took his performance to another level at Imola. The circuit made overtaking extremely tricky and unless there was a big delta in raw speed or tyre performance, it wasn’t too difficult for cars to overtake. That doe...
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Logan Sargeant had another weekend to forget at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix which has left his already uncertain future even more in doubt. A deleted time in qualifying meant he started at the back of the grid and he failed to make any progress through the pack during Sunday’s race. Williams have a decision to make for 2025 – and potentially before that – and Dutch journalist Jack Plooij has spoken to Ziggo Sport about who could be the potential replacement for Logan Sargeant. The 23-year-old still only has a single point to his name in his F1 career although he can claim a small victory in ...
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While the action on the track at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix wasn’t particularly exciting, a lot was going on off it. With so many seats left to fill ahead of the 2025 Formula 1 season, drivers and their entourages are sounding out potential options for next year. Ted Kravitz was delivering all the latest information he had heard in the paddock on Ted’s Notebook (19/5 5:26pm) after the race in Imola. Valtteri Bottas was spotted heading into Williams’s motorhome during the weekend but joked he only met team principal James Vowles to ask for some coffee. Meanwhile, Kevin Magnussen’s seat at Ha...
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The Emilia Romagna Grand Prix will live in the memories of Formula 1 fans for the touching tributes to Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger rather than the action on the track. Lando Norris did his best to make the race interesting in the final few laps, cutting the gap to eventual winner Max Verstappen to less than a second, but the Dutchman had enough in the tank to add another 25 points to his tally. Karun Chandhok was commentating on the race for Sky Sports F1 (19/5 2:22pm) and found a few drivers to highlight during an uneventful Grand Prix. The commentary line that there was a ‘100% chan...
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