Johnny Herbert won the Le Mans 24 Hours with a Mazda 787B – a firm favourite among sportscar fans – and three Formula 1 races in Benetton and Stewart machinery. But the two cars he selects from his career are machines he failed to win in.“The best car I drove at Le Mans was the Bentley, very nicely engineered,” says Herbert of the Speed 8 he shared with Mark Blundell and David Brabham to ...Keep reading ..read more

AGS Formule 1, which now runs a driving school and experience events, has launched the F1 '90s Time Attack Mediterranean Challenge for F1 cars built between 1986 and 2000 and 1985-2000 Formula 3000 machinery.Four rounds are planned, starting this weekend at the Historic French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard.The entry for Ricard includes two AGS chassis, a 1989 JH24 and a 1991 JH25, driven respectively ...Keep reading ..read more

Red Bull already has Max Verstappen under contract for 2025, while Perez has impressed in the opening part of the 2024 season to ensure he is likely to retain his seat at the team.Perez stated on Thursday that, given the dynamic nature of the 2025 driver market, he expected "to know my future in the coming weeks, because everything is moving quite fast. So I think it's important not to wait for ...Keep reading ..read more

With F1 teams having done a lot of pre-event work in the simulator based on information from both Pirelli and the FIA, they were caught out when they arrived at the circuit on Wednesday by the visibly different track surface.While drivers said it looked like the track had been “painted”, it emerged that it was actually a liquid bitumen surface treatment that had been applied last year to help ...Keep reading ..read more

Sainz qualified fifth and team-mate Charles Leclerc seventh as the Ferraris struggled to get their tyres warmed up in a rainy end to Friday's sprint qualifying.Leclerc went off when it started raining, bending his steering rack, which Sainz admitted could have easily happened to him too."With the intermediate tyres we waited a long time at the pitlane exit, they got cold, and then Charles and I ...Keep reading ..read more

F1 has altered its sprint race schedule once again, with sprint race qualifying shifting to Friday and the sprint race moving to Saturday. The race weekend format then reverts back to a traditional schedule for grand prix qualifying on Saturday afternoon with the grand prix on Sunday. Here’s how the latest sprint race format changes will work. In sprint race qualifying, McLaren’s Lando Norris ...Keep reading ..read more

Hamilton was one of the standout performers of a wet final qualifying segment on Friday afternoon, taking second behind McLaren's Lando Norris.The seven-time world champion said his car "came alive" in the wet, but he's realistic about its potential if Saturday morning's sprint is held in dry conditions."It was pretty tricky conditions. Not a lot of grip for everyone, but so happy," he told F1 ...Keep reading ..read more

Having claimed every pole position so far in the 2024 F1 season, Verstappen looked strong favourite again after topping Q2 of sprint qualifying in the dry.But as rain fell at the Shanghai International Circuit it produced a major unknown given no driver had any wet running at a track F1 had not visited for five years.With multiple drivers slipping off the track in Q3, Verstappen had two lap times ...Keep reading ..read more

Rain made the already slippery Shanghai surface even more treacherous and Friday afternoon's final segment of sprint qualifying was peppered with incidents, with world champion Max Verstappen going off twice and Charles Leclerc tapping the wall with his front wing.McLaren driver Norris bagged sprint pole, but not before his lap was briefly deleted. Right before embarking on the lap that would ...Keep reading ..read more

Rain made the already slippery Shanghai surface even more treacherous and Friday afternoon's final segment of sprint qualifying was peppered with incidents, with world champion Max Verstappen going off twice and Charles Leclerc tapping the wall with his front wing.McLaren driver Norris bagged sprint pole, but not before his lap was briefly deleted. Right before embarking on the lap that would ...Keep reading ..read more