Mercedes avoids penalty, exonerated after 'IT security issue'
Mercedes has avoided a penalty for failing to send its set-up sheets to the FIA before Las Vegas Grand Prix Formula 1 qualifying because it did send them - the problem was a computer security issue.The team was referred to the stewards by F1 technical delegate Jo Bauer on the basis that it "still had not submitted the set-up sheets" for both cars 12 minutes into the qualifying session. By this tim...
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Mercedes has avoided a penalty for failing to send its set-up sheets to the FIA before Las Vegas Grand Prix Formula 1 qualifying because it did send them - the problem was a computer security issue.The team was referred to the stewards by F1 technical delegate Jo Bauer on the basis that it "still had not submitted the set-up sheets" for both cars 12 minutes into the qualifying session. By this tim...
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Mercedes avoids penalty, exonerated after 'IT security issue'
Mercedes has avoided a penalty for failing to send its set-up sheets to the FIA before Las Vegas GP F1 qualifying because it did send them - the pr...
Oscar Piastri’s Formula 1 championship hopes took a further blow in Las Vegas qualifying as he wound up fifth on the grid with McLaren team-mate and points leader Lando Norris on pole. Piastri is on a poor run of form that has completely overturned the 34-point advantage he had after winning the Dutch Grand Prix at the end of August. He is now 24 points behind Norris having failed to stand on the ...
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Lewis Hamilton's disastrous Las Vegas Grand Prix qualifying went beyond just him backing off and not pushing for a final Q1 effort - as another disappointment compounded what he says has been his "hardest year" in Formula 1.The Ferrari driver was slowest in the first qualifying segment in Las Vegas to get dumped out of Q1 and will start Saturday's race from 20th on the grid.Much has been made of H...
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Championship leader Lando Norris continued his momentum in the closing stages of the 2025 Formula 1 season by taking pole position for the Las Vegas Grand Prix in a wet qualifying session.The McLarens ending up 19th and 20th in FP3 appeared a deceptive result, but even so the rain that returned between final practice and qualifying appeared transformative to the team's prospects - particularly aft...
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Lando Norris took pole position for Formula 1's 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix with a mighty final lap in wet conditions, as title rival and McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri qualified down in fifth.Results1 Lando Norris (McLaren)2 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)3 Carlos Sainz (Williams)4 George Russell (Mercedes)5 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)6 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)7 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)8 Isack Hadja...
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Formula 1 teams have been fired a warning shot about employing tyre temperature tricks at the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix, after some were caught with rubber that had been heated above the legal limit in final practice.The cool conditions in Las Vegas, allied to it being a track around which generating tyre temperature is difficult, means there is a premium in teams getting their tyres as hot as pos...
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George Russell edged Max Verstappen for the fastest time in final practice for Formula 1’s 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix, as the two McLarens of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris ended up slowest of all.Earlier rain over the Vegas strip meant the early part of this session was pretty much a total write-off, as cars slithered their way around on a cold and damp circuit, where the track temperature barely ...
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Felipe Massa can proceed with parts of his £64million legal action over the “conspiracy” he alleges denied him the 2008 F1 title, as both sides claim a key legal ruling as a victory.Massa argues he is the “victim of skullduggery” following Renault’s Crashgate scandal in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix and an alleged subsequent Bernie Ecclestone-Max Mosley cover-up to keep the truth under wraps until...
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The FIA has conceded that a “weakness” in the Formula 1 regulations leaves the door open for teams to make power unit changes without cost cap consequences.The issue of whether teams must pay for engine swaps if they opt for one for performance reasons erupted after the Brazilian Grand Prix.McLaren suggested that it wanted answers as to whether Red Bull’s decision to fit a fresh engine in Max Vers...
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No long running in FP2 and a big mixture between drivers who got a low-fuel lap in on the soft tyre and those who didn't: that made reading the form on the first day of running at Formula 1's Las Vegas Grand Prix extremely tentative.We can probably say that the top four teams are closely-matched and that the Alpine and Williams seem to be relatively competitive on this combination of low grip and ...
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The $300million deal Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Wolff has done with CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz for part of his stake in the squad certainly delivers the kind of financial security that makes a good retirement.But this is not Wolff cashing out and commencing an F1 exit plan. Retirement is far from his thoughts right now.Instead, the sale of a stake in his Mercedes interests is more ...
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FIA single-seater director Nikolas Tombazis has torpedoed claims that the all-new 2026 Formula 1 cars will be much closer in performance to current F2 machinery. Racing Bulls driver Isack Hadjar suggested on Wednesday in Las Vegas that, based on his experience in the driver-in-loop simulator, the 2026 cars are "closer to an F2", clarifying he meant "car performance wise".But the FIA's laptime simu...
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Lando Norris topped a disrupted second Formula 1 practice session at the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix. FP2 times 1 Lando Norris (McLaren) 1m33.602s2 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) +0.029s3 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) +0.161s4 Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber) +0.277s5 Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) +0.291s6 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) +0.299s7 George Russell (Mercedes) +0.435s8 Alex Albon (Williams) +0.465s9 Max Verstap...
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Formula 1 championship leader Lando Norris set the pace in second practice at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, a significant portion of which was lost to two red flags at the end of the session.The first of them - shown so race control could investigate the possibility of a manhole cover being loose before the final corner, which could not be confirmed with the use of CCTV - wiped out more than a quarter...
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Charles Leclerc led first practice at the 2025 Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, ahead of Williams's Alex Albon and the Red Bulls of Yuki Tsunoda and Max Verstappen.FP1 times1 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) 1m34.802s2 Alex Albon (Williams) +0.166s3 Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull) +0.269s4 Max Verstappen (Red Bull) +0.307s5 Carlos Sainz (Williams) +0.377s6 Lando Norris (McLaren) +0.456s7 Isack Hadjar (Racing Bull...
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Red Bull insists that there was "nothing unusual" in its decision to make a Formula 1 engine change on Max Verstappen's car at the Brazilian Grand Prix in response to McLaren raising questions about it and how it fits within F1's cost cap rules.In the wake of Verstappen's qualifying disaster at Interlagos a fortnight ago, when he was knocked out in Q1, Red Bull broke parc ferme to make major set-u...
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Charles Leclerc led Alex Albon's Williams in a mixed-up start to Formula 1's Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend in Thursday afternoon's opening practice session.A slightly adjusted timetable for 2025 meant the new sight of F1 cars on the Vegas track at dusk initially rather than in full darkness, but with cold track temperatures and plenty of dust on the circuit meaning times well off the pace at first....
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Ahead of what’s probably the most unpredictable race of Formula 1 2025’s triple-header finale, there was plenty to take from media day at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.Here’s what we’ve already learned…Drivers play Elkann’s ‘hospital pass’ wellJohn Elkann played a 'hospital pass', to use football parlance, to drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc with his comments suggesting they "focus on driving...
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Formula 1 drivers are bracing themselves for a "pretty nasty" and "not fun" experience if track action is impacted by rain at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.An unusual run of poor weather in the region means the build up to this weekend’s F1 event has been marred by rain, with flash flooding impacting the city on Tuesday following a particular heavy downfall.Current forecasts predict more wet weather is...
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That Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc would be bombarded with questions about Ferrari chairman John Elkann's recent statement that "it is important that they focus on driving and talk less" when they faced the media in Las Vegas on Wednesday night was inevitable. What was less certain was how they would respond to such pointed criticism. Edd Straw, who was in the room and asked both drivers abou...
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