Max Verstappen breezed to a comfortable sprint race victory to secure pole position for Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix and further extend his F1 championship lead.
The damage incurred from Lewis Hamilton and George Russell’s crashes in Austrian Grand Prix qualifying has already cost Mercedes a third of the additional budget cap increase for the 2022 F1 season.
Sergio Perez has received a penalty for track limit violations so, after qualifying for the F1 Austrian Grand Prix sprint race in fourth, he will now start in P13.
Lewis Hamilton says he is “incredibly disappointed in myself” to have squandered a potential top-three grid spot for the Austrian Grand Prix sprint race by crashing out of qualifying.
Max Verstappen will start Saturday’s Austrian Grand Prix sprint event on pole position after topping a dramatic Friday qualifying in which both Mercedes drivers crashed.
Lewis Hamilton has laughed off Red Bull F1 team principal Christian Horner’s suggestion that Mercedes got their strategy wrong at the British Grand Prix.
Zhou Guanyu’s horrifying crash must “open our eyes” to more safety measures, insist Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, but they have warned that major accidents will always be inevitable.
Despite never actually racing each other at the British Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton couldn’t help but aim a dig at reigning F1 world champion Max Verstappen.
After Max Verstappen was booed at Silverstone, F1 heads to the Austrian Grand Prix this weekend where the Red Bull driver can count on serious support.
With his father making the media headlines in recent weeks, Crash.net takes a look back at the controversy that ended Nelson Piquet Jr’s F1 career in 2009.