Formula 1

Mark Hughes: Why it wasn’t Perez who capitalised on Ferrari woe

Sergio Perez was again the faster Red Bull driver in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix build-up and blitzed the early laps after grabbing the lead. But in the end he was comfortably beaten by team-mate Max Verstappen. Mark Hughes looks at why, and how the race might have panned out had the Ferraris continue

IndyCar

Newgarden takes $1million IndyCar win at Road America

Josef Newgarden won his third race of the 2022 IndyCar season at Road America, claiming $1million in the process

Formula 1

Hamilton feared ‘most painful’ Baku F1 race would end in crash

Lewis Hamilton described the Azerbaijan Grand Prix F1 race as the “most painful” race of his career

Formula 1

Horner: Rival F1 teams urging drivers to moan about bouncing

Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Christian Horner believes rival team chiefs are deliberately encouraging their drivers to make a big fuss about the ride quality of the 2022 F1 cars

WEC/Le Mans

Toyota dominates final Le Mans before manufacturer influx

Toyota took a fifth consecutive Le Mans 24 Hours victory as its era of having no equal opposition at the event came to an end, but in doing so it set an ominous benchmark for the host of new manufacturer opposition it will face from 2022

Formula 1

Winners and losers from F1’s 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

The Azerbaijan Grand Prix delivered another twist in the 2022 Formula 1 title tale and produced a big batch of winners and losers

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Our verdict on Ferrari’s biggest 2022 F1 title blow yet

It couldn’t really get any worse for Ferrari than a double Azerbaijan Grand Prix retirement coinciding with a Red Bull 1-2. Here’s our take on Ferrari’s reliability crisis and title bid disaster

Formula 1

Leclerc: Ferrari failures perplexing given 2022 start

Charles Leclerc says Ferrari’s sudden Formula 1 reliability crisis is hard to understand given how the team started the 2022 season

Formula 1

Verstappen leads Red Bull Baku 1-2 as both Ferraris fail

Ferrari’s Formula 1 world championship hopes suffered another enormous blow as Charles Leclerc retired with engine problems while leading an Azerbaijan Grand Prix that ended with Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez first and second for Red Bull

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Gary Anderson: Why some F1 cars bounce more than others

With a row over the possibility of rule tweaks to ease 2022 Formula 1 cars’ bouncing issue, Gary Anderson looks at how and why some teams struggle with it more than others, using Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes as case studies

Formula 1

‘A bit off’ all weekend – Why Verstappen looks limited in Baku

The limitation Max Verstappen finds with the 2022 Red Bull has been a prominent theme of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend

Formula 1

Mark Hughes: Ferrari may not be as vulnerable as Red Bull hopes

Does Ferrari’s Baku set-up leave it too exposed to Red Bull race day attacks? Or does Red Bull’s risk its tyres too much? Mark Hughes looks at what the title rivals’ technical differences mean for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix