Новости за 28.04.2023

Event: Azerbaijan F1 Grand Prix Track: Baku street circuit Warm-up lap starts Sunday at: 15:00 Local | 13:.00 CET | 12:00 UK | 04:00 LA | 20:00 Tokio The 2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix is set to be an exciting race after an eventful qualifying session that saw Ferrari's Charles Leclerc secure his first pole position.....check out full post »

Event: Azerbaijan F1 Grand Prix Track: Baku street circuit Weather: dry  20°C Tarmac: dry  38°C Humidity: 78% Wind: 1 km/h S Pressure: 1012 bar Charles Leclerc qualified as quickest for the 19th time today. The Ferrari driver scored his third Baku pole position for tomorrow's 2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. It was his first pole of.....check out full post »

Event: Azerbaijan F1 Grand Prix Track: Baku street circuit Weather: dry  21°C Tarmac: dry  44°C Humidity: 77% Wind: 1 km/h SW Pressure: 1013 bar The first free practice session for the 2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix was full of incidents and chaos, with Haas, AlphaTauri, and Alpine teams suffering from various issues. Red Bull, Ferrari, and.....check out full post »

Apr.28 - Max Verstappen insists he is still no fan of Formula 1's sprint race format, even though he admits a second qualifying session debuting this weekend at Baku will make it "better". However, the reigning back-to-back world champion doesn't think it will fully succeed in making the short race on Saturday more enticing for.....check out full post »

Apr.28 - Valtteri Bottas could be about to become the co-owner of a Formula 1-ready race circuit. Since leaving Mercedes at the end of 2021, the 33-year-old Finn has expanded his interests beyond the sport with investments in gin, coffee and property. It is clear Bottas is also expressing his personality more freely at Alfa.....check out full post »

Apr.28 - Red Bull-owned AlphaTauri was "aggressive" in announcing Laurent Mekies' departure from Ferrari, according to team boss Frederic Vasseur. As an exodus of top personnel continues at the Maranello-based team, Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz admits sporting director Mekies "obviously" would have been interested in an offer to replace Franz Tost. "We're also hiring staff,".....check out full post »

This weekend in Azerbaijan, Formula 1 will introduce a new format designed to boost the spectacle of Sprint weekends and improve track action for fans around the world. Thanks to the close working relationship the FIA enjoys with FOM as well as the sport’s 10 teams and power unit manufacturers, moving the changes from concept.....check out full post »

Apr.28 - The new female-only 'F1 Academy' support series kicks off this weekend in Austria, but series chief Susie Wolff admits it could be a decade before a woman is on the Formula 1 grid. "I believe it's eight to 10 years away from happening," the wife of Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff, and a.....check out full post »

Apr.28 - Bernie Ecclestone thinks ousted Haas driver Mick Schumacher should "forget this dream" of returning to the Formula 1 grid. Heavily criticised by Haas boss Gunther Steiner last year, 24-year-old Schumacher subsequently accepted Toto Wolff's offer to become Mercedes reserve driver this year. But Ecclestone, the former F1 supremo, told RTL: "He has to.....check out full post »

DRIVER GROUP 1 – Esteban Ocon (Alpine), Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri), Kevin Magnussen (Haas), Lando Norris (McLaren), Sergio Pérez (Red Bull) Q: Yuki, Let's start with you. Are you a fan of the April break? What have you just been getting up to? Yuki Tsunoda: Yeah, I'm really fond of the April break. I had three weeks, it was.....check out full post »

Apr.28 - Charles Leclerc says he is not in talks with Mercedes "at the moment" about a move to the Brackley based team. The rumours have been bolstered by Ferrari's poor start to 2023, but also Red Bull chief Dr Helmut Marko's claim that Leclerc can probably escape his contract before the end of 2024......check out full post »