Новости за 07.05.2022

It's only Friday. It's only free practice...and yet.. the two Mercedes of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton (in that order) were impressively quick in Miami. Maybe its because the 50deg track temps are finally working the Mercedes' Pirellis into a sweet spot; maybe the team have made significant improvements. The Mercs were still porpoising on.....check out full post »

Event: Miami Formula 1 Grand Prix Track: Miami International Autodrome Weather: dry  32.9°C Tarmac: wet  48.3°C Humidity: 43% Wind: 0.8 m/s E Pressure: 1010.4 bar The third practice session showed similar weather as yesterday. Red Bull driver Max Verstappen got out quickly to get some more lap under his belt after his messy FP2 session of.....check out full post »

May 7 - The Formula 1 world is wondering in Miami if Mercedes is finally getting to the bottom of its 2022 woes. In practice for the first-ever street race in the Floridian city, George Russell - clearly the more competitive Mercedes driver so far this season - was a shock P1. "The car can't.....check out full post »

May 7 - Mario Andretti is confident his famous surname will be back on the Formula 1 grid in 2024. A proposed buyout of the Sauber team fell through late last year, after F1 legend Andretti's son Michael and his US-based Andretti Autosport outfit agreed a deal. "I don't give a crap what anyone says,".....check out full post »

May 7 - McLaren is definitely not being sold to Audi, team supremo Zak Brown insists. It has already emerged that the British team reportedly turned down a EUR 650 million offer from the Volkswagen brand ahead of its expected F1 debut in 2026. "We've had talks with Audi, but we're not for sale," Brown.....check out full post »

May 7 - Formula 1 is going into the business of promoting its own grands prix. Traditionally, the commercial side of organising races was relatively simple for the commercial rights holder - which at present is Liberty Media. But instead of simply taking a sizeable fee from a promoter for next year's return of Las.....check out full post »

May 7 - Lewis Hamilton threatened to boycott this weekend's Miami GP if the FIA pressed ahead with its plans to ban his jewellery from the Mercedes cockpit. In a letter ahead of the inaugural street race, new F1 race director Niels Wittich reiterated his intention to enforce the jewellery ban with trackside "checks". "I.....check out full post »

DRIVER GROUP 1 – Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri), Alex Albon (Williams), Sergio PÉREZ (Red Bull), Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) Q: Lewis, you’re up first of all. How's Miami been so far for you? Lewis Hamilton: It's been great. The weather is incredible. And we've had such a warm welcome here. So just been.....check out full post »

Event: Miami Formula 1 Grand Prix Track: Miami International Autodrome Weather: dry  32.5°C Tarmac: wet  41.7°C Humidity: 56% Wind: 1.6 m/s SSW Pressure: 1011.4 bar The second practice for the very first Miami Formula One Grand Prix started off a lot cooler than this morning's FP1. After ten minutes the order was 1. Leclerc (1:31.131), 2......check out full post »

In the build-up to the inaugural Miami Grand Prix, Peter Windsor addresses some of the current, burning issues in F1 - all raised by recent viewers' comments on this channel. These include: are the new regulations working? Do we still need DRS? Why couldn't F1's super-engineers solve the age-old porpoising problems last winter? And, to.....check out full post »

Formula 1 rocks up in Florida