Po Name Nat Team Time Ponits 1 Max Verstappen DUT Red Bull – Tag Heuer 01:30:01.290 25 2 Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes +00:12.770 18 3 Daniel Ricciardo AUS Red Bull – Tag Heuer +00:22.519 15 4 Sebastian Vettel GER Ferrari +00:37.362 12 5 Valtteri Bottas FIN Mercedes +00:56.021 10 6 Sergio Perez MEX Force India
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has taken a dominating victory after fighting with Mercedes Lewis Hamilton in the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Dutchman overtook Hamilton early on and a fight for the victory soon fooled, but Verstappen withstood the pressure before sailing into the distance. For Verstappen, it was a good strong result following his difficult
Lewis Hamilton will start the last ever Malaysian Grand Prix from pole position after beating Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen by .04 of a second in qualifying. The Mercedes driver pulled it out on his final run in Q3 to take what could be a curial pole in his hopes of a fourth world title. Hamilton’s championship
Sebastian Vettel was fastest in a dry second practice ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Ferrari driver was six-tenths faster than his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen with Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo third. The session was brought to an end early after Haas’s Romain Grosjean spun off after hitting a drain cover at turn thirteen. That
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen topped the times in a wet first practice ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Dutchman was seven-tenths faster than his team-mate Daniel Ricciardo and McLaren’s Fernando Alonso. The session was delayed by half an hour as heavy rain poured down, but once the session got underway Verstappen soon set the
Red Bull increase partnership with Aston Martin Red Bull announced on Monday that the luxury car brand Aston Martin will become Aston Martin Red Bull Racing from 2018. As part of the deal between the Austrian team and the German sports car company a new ‘Advanced Performance Centre’ will be housed at Red Bull’s Milton
Round fifteen of the season sees the final running of the Malaysian Grand Prix. First held in 1999, as a FIA World Championship Grand Prix became the first ever world championship Grand Prix to be held in Asia. The race however has it’s origins much earlier and was first held in neighbouring Singapore in 1963
McLaren set in their ways Honda motorsport boss has label McLaren as ‘systematic’ and is set in their ways. McLaren is ninth in the constructor’s championship and has blamed that on the Japanese manufacturer after a number of engine failures from the underperforming power unit. In an interview with the manufacturer’s website, Masashi Yamamoto said
Renault unfairly dependent on Hulkenberg Renault boss Cyril Abiteboul says the team reliance on Nico Hulkenberg is “almost unfair” and that Jolyon Palmer “has to deliver” by scoring points. The Englishman who is in his second season of Formula One has not scored any points, while his German team-mate has been in the points
Marko questions convergence Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko, has questioned the FIA’s claims that the convergence of the power units is roughly the same. Under an agreement between the manufacturers, there is an agreement to encourage performance convergence this year. The token system which had been designed to keep the cost down and limiting the