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MELBOURNE, Australia — Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz ended Red Bull’s Formula 1 winning streak Sunday when the Spaniard took advantage of Max Verstappen's early retirement to win the Australian Grand Prix just two weeks after missing the previous race in Saudi Arabia due to an emergency appendectomy.
Ferrari has taken a one-two finish at the 2024 Australian Grand Prix, with Australian driver Oscar Piastri just missing out on a podium to his McLaren teammate, Lando Norris.
MELBOURNE, Australia — Turns out Ferrari's Carlos Sainz didn't need to “raise his hand” and have another driver take his place during the first two practice sessions for Sunday's Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix.
Carlos Sainz clinched his fourth Dakar Rally title, with a fourth manufacturer, in a historic maiden victory for Audi…
What were you doing at 18 years old? I can tell what I most certainly wasn't doing. I wasn't scoring points in a Formula 1 grand prix, ahead of established drivers like Lando Norris and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton. However, that's exactly what Ferrari rookie Oliver Bearman did yesterday when he stood in for Carlos Sainz.
SAKHIR, Bahrain — The ongoing drama around Red Bull had no effect on its three-time reigning world champion as Max Verstappen routed the field by 22 seconds in the season-opening Formula 1 race on Saturday.
Trying to make any conclusions from Formula 1 pre-season testing has historically not gone well. Teams and drivers are figuring out their respective cars; you never know who is sandbagging, and this year, issues with the track have wrought a tiny amount of chaos on the whole ordeal. Looking at the timing sheets at the end of each day might not mean a whole lot when it comes to who will be fastest come the real race weekend (which is next week!), but that doesn't mean we won't take a look to see how testing went for the various teams on the grid.
The inaugural day of Formula 1 pre-season testing turned up what most of us already knew: Red Bull Racing is still the team to beat and will very likely get back to winning once the season gets underway. Max Verstappen drove the equivalent of two races around the Bahrain International Circuit on Wednesday, lapping more than a second faster than the rest. Thursday offered a little more variety, with Ferrari and Mercedes logging plenty of laps and a quicker pace than the day before.