Nine laps before the end of a great career that has seen him experience four world championship titles, 53 race wins and 57 pole positions, Sebastian Vettel once again shows the ambition that drove him to all that glory in the first place. On the radio, he reports to his team with a crisp tirade: “How can you be so wrong with your strategy?!” Vettel scolds. And of course he's right! For his departure, the strategists at Aston Martin had...
The small room at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, where the three fastest drivers of the day prepare for the awards ceremony, is a place of emotional debate and agitation on the better days. In the center is a television, on which the most wonderful and sometimes hearty overtaking maneuvers are shown again. On Sunday, however, second-placed Lewis Hamilton sat in front of the screen, next to him were the winner Max Verstappen and third-placed Sergio Pérez - they didn't speak...
Dietrich MateschitzOpen detailed view (Photo: Memmler/Eibner/Imago)The screen of the official F1 website remained black for a long time, nothing remaining of the euphoria that had accompanied the race weekend in Texas. An hour before Saturday's US Grand Prix qualifiers, Red Bull employees received the email they had been dreading for weeks - the quiet patriarch had succumbed to his serious illness. Immediately there was peace in the divided paddock, and the management of the series promised: "We will always remember...
Team boss Christian Horner congratulated with tears in his eyes, Max Verstappen dedicated the triumph to his sponsor: "That was for Dietrich. I gave everything." With another world champion performance, the Dutchman won the Emotions Grand Prix for Red Bull in the USA and one day after the death of Red Bull founder Mateschitz, he also made the constructor's title in Formula 1 perfect.Verstappen fought his way back to the top on Sunday after a botched second pit stop and...
Why does Formula 1 make its rules so terribly complicated? The rule that made Max Verstappen world champion in Suzuka makes no sense at all when you look at it in the light of day.comment by Phillip SchneiderGood news to start with, so that it doesn't get lost: the world automobile association Fia has done something really good about the chaos it caused at the Suzuka Grand Prix! Exceptionally, his race stewards only needed a few minutes to give a...
Max Verstappen stood in front of a video wall, he gave an interview to the moderator Johnny Herbert, he had won the race in Suzuka. But he wasn't world champion yet. He had collected 341 points before the Grand Prix in Japan this season, and now he's still missing one point. In numbers: 1. Decision postponed, he thought. That's what everyone thought.Verstappen left the stage and stood on the edge again so that his panelmates Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez...
After driving to pole position, Max Verstappen had to sit in detention, along with his buddy Lando Norris. For an hour after qualifying in Suzuka, the two sat with the race stewards; there was a tricky situation to discuss on the race track. A little later, however, it was clear: Verstappen got away with a warning, kept the first place on the grid - and now had the best chance of an early World Cup triumph.At the Japanese Grand Prix...
Sergio Perez chased his Red Bull as the leader across the floodlit track in Singapore. Two times hammered in his mind. Perez knew there were still five minutes to go, the Grand Prix would not end on its natural number of laps, but would break the time limit. And he was 3.5 seconds ahead of his pursuer Charles Leclerc. Most likely, this distance would not be enough. Because while Perez was racing, the commissioners were already brooding over a possible...
FerrariOpen detailed view (Photo: Andrej Isakovic/AFP)If you mixed the Herzblut red and the Modena yellow, you would probably get something like the orange that stands for Max Verstappen. Nevertheless, Ferrari celebrated a big home game, celebrated the 75th anniversary of its sports car production and the 100th anniversary of Monza in style. Company President John Elkann granted an extension to 2026 to win the title, Charles Leclerc did what he could with his pole position and second place in the...
When there were still a few laps to go, it looked as if Max Verstappen would spoil the Sunday party for the tens of thousands of Tifosi in the stands of the Autodromo Nazionale Monza. He was well ahead of Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc, who most spectators wanted to see win the Italian Grand Prix. But then Daniel Ricciardo's car stopped half on the green shoulder and half on the track. And suddenly a new opportunity opened up. 21.7 seconds...
