Ferrari F1 drivers out of “survival mode” with “huge step” on car consistency

[ Last year, Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc often had to focus on tyre management, which was made more difficult by inconsistent and unpredictable behaviour even between sets of the same compound. This year’s SF-24 has proved to be much more benign and predictable on long runs, and that was a key to the spectacular 1-2 … Read more

Australia layout the main factor behind improving McLaren F1 form

[ Norris and Oscar Piastri qualified fourth and sixth respectively, but both will move up a spot after a three-place grid penalty for third-fastest Sergio Perez. While Piastri couldn’t wring an optimal lap out of his MCL38 in Q3, Norris’ four-tenth gap to Red Bull”s polesitter Max Verstappen is the smallest it has been this … Read more

Bearman’s F1 debut will be “forgotten” if he doesn’t perform in F2

[ The teenager’s drive to seventh place when he deputised for Carlos Sainz at Ferrari in Jeddah has inevitably led many observers to assume that he will be promoted to a Haas race seat in 2025. Bearman drove for the US outfit in two FP1 sessions last season, and he has a programme of six … Read more