The McLaren deficit being magnified by F1’s title fight
McLaren has a driver third in the F1 championship, ahead of a Red Bull and a Mercedes. But is the team’s main deficit being magnified by an aggressive championship fight?
McLaren has a driver third in the F1 championship, ahead of a Red Bull and a Mercedes. But is the team’s main deficit being magnified by an aggressive championship fight?
Ex-Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean will get his promised test in a Mercedes F1 car at Paul Ricard next month
Everyone is hoping the Hamilton/Verstappen intensity can go the distance. But if it does, will an epic rivalry turn ugly?
Alpine’s Esteban Ocon has looked resurgent in 2021, but how much of that is down to an F1-rusty Fernando Alonso? Edd Straw investigates
Williams put its 2020 Formula 1 front wing design back on George Russell’s car for the Portuguese Grand Prix – and will use it again in Spain. This is why
Former F1 technical director Gary Anderson crunches the numbers to assess the differences in straightline performance of Mercedes and Red Bull to understand why Hamilton found it so easy to pass Verstappen in Portugal
Toto Wolff felt Valtteri Bottas’s Portuguese GP “kind of flatlined” after a mid-race radio message – but it’s clear Bottas’s problem runs deeper
Daniel Ricciardo’s charge from 16th to ninth in the Portuguese Grand Prix has left the McLaren driver hopeful he can make a breakthrough with its Formula 1 car without waiting for upgrades
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner criticised the “brutal” track limits penalties that have hit Max Verstappen’s season, but while F1’s policing of track limits continues to be problematic, there can be no complaints about the trio of punishments he cited
The Portuguese GP offered a mix of surprising and disappointing performances for Edd Straw to get stuck into in his Formula 1 driver ratings. Debate his scores with him live at 5pm UK time on Monday
