Welcome to Friday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links A TikTok video boasted of a next-level grand prix stunt. Two teens have now been charged (The Age) ‘They have both been charged with several offences under both the Crimes Act and the Major Events Act.’ IndyCar announces rules violation and penalty from
Welcome to Thursday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Comment of the day If Red Bull are firing a driver after just two races they need to look beyond him for an explanation what went wrong, says Stephen: One thing which is being overlooked is Liam is given the car to race by Red Bull. They
Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to Alianora la Canta, Fallon, Henrique Pinheiro, Jake, Jorge H., Lyndell D Wolff and Lyndell D Wolff! On this day in motorsport A bit of history repeating on this day 25 years ago Born on this day in 1941: Lella Lombardi, the only
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Cape Town and Kyalami in race to host F1 grand prix (Business Day) ‘Kyalami hosted its first F1 race in 1967 and has long held a prominent place in SA motorsport. Cape Town is also vying for the race with two separate bids.’
Welcome to Monday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Chinese GP (Mercedes) Andrew Shovlin: ‘Kimi was unlucky to pick up debris damage to his underfloor on lap one when he likely ran over some bits of the Ferrari front wing. That really hurt his performance today.’ Sunday (Sauber) Nico Hulkenberg: ‘Unfortunately, right
Welcome to Sunday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Formula 1 to pay tribute to Eddie Jordan ahead of Chinese GP (Reuters) ‘The one-minute tribute will see all teams gathering on the grid beneath the podium.’ Sprint race / qualifying recap (Haas) ‘For qualifying we probably changed about three quarters of the
Welcome to Saturday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Comment of the day Lewis Hamilton’s fine lap for sprint race pole position yesterday defied his doubters. So says one of them: I’ve been one of his biggest critics, but that was impressive from Hamilton. To be in the mix on pace so early in the weekend
Welcome to Friday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links My friend Eddie Jordan was like the missing member of Rolling Stones (The Telegraph) Damon Hill: ‘When you’ve fought your way out of a small town south of Dublin to get to be in F1, you don’t squander millions on a ‘two-a-penny’ racing
Welcome to Thursday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Race debrief (Mercedes via YouTube) Simone Resta: ‘There was a lot of talk during the race about what to do and on which data to decide (the strategy) and when to decide. We even had one person positioned on the beach trying to
Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! No RaceFans reader birthdays today On this day in motorsport Larini took over from Alain Prost after Ferrari sacked him in 1992 Born today in 1964: Future Ferrari Formula 1 driver Nicola Larini | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Race report (McLaren) Andrea Stella: ‘The gap we were able to open in the first stint, before the Safety Cars, demonstrated both that the car is competitive, but also that it is gentle on the tyres. It’s meeting the objectives we have set
Welcome to Monday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Norris hits out at ‘fabricated nonsense’ in Netflix’s Drive to Survive (The Guardian) ‘To portray someone in an incorrect way, people are going to have their opinions of that incorrect person, it’s almost lying in some ways. I just don’t think that’s correct.’
