Daniel Ricciardo says there were mind games at play during his qualifying standoff with Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen as he felt frustrations boiled over in Austria.
Britain’s Cal Crutchlow says his strategy worked perfectly in final qualifying for the Dutch MotoGP as the LCR Honda rider finished second fastest behind Marc Marquez at Assen.
On Friday at the Dutch MotoGP, Andrea Dovizioso spoke about wanting to improve the partnership between his riding style and the GP18, in the aftermath of back-to-back wins for team-mate Jorge Lorenzo.
Valtteri Bottas says his sole focus is on victory at the Austrian Grand Prix after taking pole positon by just 0.019s ahead of Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton.
ART Grand Prix’s George Russell moved to within just two points of Formula 2 title rival Lando Norris after claiming his fourth win of 2018 at the Red Bull Ring.
Despite qualifying just 0.376s from pole, Jorge Lorenzo will need to overtake at least nine riders to claim a third Ducati victory in a row during Sunday's Dutch MotoGP.
Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari’s ‘main losses’ to Mercedes is being unable to match its pace through high-speed corners which is compounded by the circuit layout at the Red Bull Ring.
Lewis Hamilton feels a mistake on his opening flying lap in the pole position shootout cost him against Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas but was content to secure a front row lockout.
Max Verstappen has hit back at Red Bull teammate Daniel Ricciardo after he called the squad’s Q3 tactics unfair by explaining it was previously agreed each driver would take turns per round to give the other a tow in qualifying.
Daniel Ricciardo believes that Red Bull "could have been more fair" in its attempt to try and give teammate Max Verstappen a tow during Formula 1 qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix as tensions flared between the two drivers.
Valtteri Bottas charged to his first pole position of the Formula 1 season in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix on Saturday, heading up a one-two finish for Mercedes as teammate Lewis Hamilton fell two-hundredths of a second shy in the final fight for P1.
Full qualifying results for the Austrian Grand Prix, the ninth round of the 2018 F1 season at the Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria. Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix – Full qualifying classification Q3
The top two riders in Q1 now progress to the Q2 pole position shootout, where they will join the ten fastest riders after third practice. The others will start, in the following order, from 13th on the grid onwards.
Charles Leclerc will take a five-place grid penalty for the Austrian Grand Prix after it was confirmed that Sauber had been forced to change the gearbox on his Formula 1 car following an issue in final practice on Saturday afternoon.
Marquez leads final practice at Assen, while Rossi and Bautista fall in seperate incidents at Turn 7. Franco Morbidelli is out for the rest of the weekend after a left-hand fracture at the same corner this morning.
Sebastian Vettel closed out Formula 1 practice for the Austrian Grand Prix at the head of the timesheets for Ferrari as Red Bull rival Max Verstappen finished his session parked up at the side of the track following a loss of power on his Red Bull car.