Lewis Hamilton recovered from a frustrating morning in dramatic fashion as he stormed to pole position in Canada by 3 tenths from his team mate, Rosberg. Only 19 cars competed in qualifying as Jenson Button suffered an ERS failure in FP3 that couldn’t be rectified in time. Q1 Hamilton finally submitted a competitive time after a […]
Despite the rain preventing most cars from circulating Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, some teams managed to get in some long runs in FP2. The times set on the option tyre during FP2 heavy fuel runs are almost always quicker than the first stint of the race leaders (this may be because teams run ~20kg less fuel), […]
The only driver in Thursday’s press conference to have raced during F1’s last tyre war, Felipe Massa, told the media that he doesn’t think another tyre war will happen soon, but it was better for the drivers. “Well, for sure, when we had the fight between the tyre suppliers (Michelin and Bridgestone), it was amazing […]
Toto Wolff has apologised to Lewis Hamilton after a team-error robbed the Brit of an almost certain Monaco GP win. The Mercedes Executive Director told F1.com that the team misjudged the pace of the safety car: “We have to check what speed the safety car was doing. But yes he closed up with the safety […]
Carlos Sainz will start tomorrow’s Monaco Grand Prix from the pitlane for missing a weigh-in during qualifying at the weighbridge. The Spaniard would’ve started P8 without the penalty – out-qualifying his team mate, Max Verstappen, by 0.02 seconds. The penalty comes after he was called to the weighbridge for a second time, this time after qualifying […]
Sebastian Vettel qualified in 3rd place for the Monaco GP, but says Ferrari couldn’t get the most out of the car. “Generally happy with the result, but yeah, I think it was a bit too cool for us today” said the 4 times champion. “I think everyone was struggling a little bit with warming up […]
Q1 started off dry with a 20% chance of rain in qualifying. The Mercedes drivers both set 1:16.5’s early on with the prime tyre. Nico Hulkenberg brushed the outside barrier at Mirabeau but was able to carry on. The shock Q1 exit was from Valterri Bottas. Others eliminated were Nasr (16th), Ericsson (18th), Stevens (19th) and […]
Lewis Hamilton set a 1:17.192 on the prime tyre to lead the pack before a shower of rain silenced the track for the last 60 minutes of the session. The Brit led from his team-mate, Rosberg who posted a quickest time 0.7s slower. The Ferrari’s of Vettel and Raikkonen were more closely matched but over […]
Nico Rosberg has claimed his first pole position of the season ahead of team-mate, Lewis Hamilton, by quarter of a second. His pole position time: 1:24.681. The Mercedes duo were followed by Sebastian Vettel but his Ferrari counterpart did not have a great session as Kimi’s warmers burned his tyres. He qualified 7th. Bottas was […]
Nico Rosberg started Saturday in the best possible way setting the pace from Vettel by 1.5 tenths. Mercedes team-mate, Lewis Hamilton, didn’t have a good session. He finished 3rd – a tenth behind Vettel in the Ferrari and had a huge slide in turn 3, ruining a set of prime tyres. Raikkonen also had a […]
The tyre compound choices for this weekend are the same as they were in Malaysia where Ferrari with Sebastian Vettel were victorious. So can they repeat their success on Sunday? The graphs below compare the long run comparison of the two teams in Spain earlier today and Malaysia FP2 long runs. (X Axis lap number, […]
Nico Rosberg lead the way ahead of his team mate, Lewis Hamilton, in FP1 by 0.070s. The Ferrari’s of Vettel and Raikkonen were 0.978 and 1.004 seconds off Rosberg’s time respectively in 3rd and 4th. Kimi Raikkonen complained the SF-15T had “no front end” with Ferrari’s 15 upgraded parts all applied at once. The Toro […]
