Key Highlights Haas driver Ollie Bearman clashed with Alpine’s Pierre Gasly at Turn 13 during the United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas. Bearman received a 10-second penalty and later retired from the race due to significant aerodynamic downforce loss caused by car damage. Despite floor damage, Pierre Gasly secured a tenth-place finish, ...
Key Highlights: Racing Bulls hold a 32-point lead over Alpine for fifth place in the World Championship with six rounds remaining following a dominant triple-header swing. Despite Alpine’s A526 showing strong single-lap qualifying pace, incidents and tyre limitations in Azerbaijan, Bahrain, and Singapore resulted in zero points across the stretch. Pierre Gasly and Franco Colapinto ...
Key Highlights: Williams drivers Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz praised the team’s cooling vest as the best on the grid following a sweltering, high-humidity Singapore Grand Prix. A Heat Hazard declaration required drivers to either utilize a cooling system or carry equivalent ballast in their cockpits. Grid opinion remains sharply divided, with Max Verstappen, Pierre ...
Key Highlights F1 Authentics is auctioning a 2024 BWT Alpine gearbox carrier and race-specification rear wing mounted on a custom-built display stand. The race-used gearbox carrier retains its original FIA seal, while the rear wingās DRS flap can still be opened and closed. The listed bid stood at $2,356 at the time of writing, with ...
Key Highlights: Franco Colapinto has urged Argentinian supporters to halt their toxic online behavior after persistent abuse targeted Formula 1 rivals, team colleagues, and officials. The plea comes after multiple incidents at the Zandvoort, Madrid, and Baku rounds prompted Alpine to repeatedly issue statements condemning online vitriol. Colapinto directly warned followers on social media that ...
Key Highlights Pierre Gasly started seventh on the Marina Bay grid but slipped outside the top 10 due to severe rear traction loss and tyre overheating after just three laps. Gasly lost crucial late positions to Liam Lawson and Isack Hadjar, attributing his struggles to getting sideways on corner exit and equipment choices involving wheel ...
Key Highlights: Pierre Gasly questioned stewarding consistency after Lando Norris avoided a penalty for clashing with McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri in the Singapore sprint. FIA stewards cleared Norris of wrongdoing, classifying the Turn 5 clash as a racing incident after finding both drivers contributed to the collision. The ruling drew comparisons to recent incidents in ...
Key Highlights: Formula 1 has completed 16 rounds of the 2026 season without a single wet-weather race or wet track session under the new technical regulations. Following driver safety concernsāincluding Isack Hadjar calling wet running “dangerous”āthe FIA introduced rule changes, while Pierre Gasly highlighted Sepang as the ideal circuit for wet conditions. Pirelli chief engineer ...
Key Highlights Franco Colapinto remains in Alpineās Formula 1 line-up after his Azerbaijan Grand Prix crash involving Pierre Gasly and Lando Norris. Colapinto travelled directly from Baku to Alpineās UK factory and entered the simulator ahead of the next race in Malaysia. Data analysis indicated that a small braking error caused the lock-up, although the ...
Key Highlights Pierre Gasly says Alpine must āgot to look aheadā and focus on securing fifth place in the Constructorsā Championship. Franco Colapintoās Azerbaijan Grand Prix collision with Gasly forced both Alpine cars? NoāGaslyās Alpine, Lando Norrisās McLaren and Colapintoās Alpine all retired. Alpine are 15 points behind Racing Bulls in the battle to finish ...
Key Highlights: Marc Priestley called Franco Colapintoās Turn 1 collision at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix āoutrageous.ā The crash eliminated both Alpine cars and Lando Norris during a safety car restart in Baku. Priestley said Norrisās call for a race ban was excessive, while Colapinto received a five-place grid penalty for the next race. Marc Priestley ...
Key Highlights Alpine has condemned renewed online abuse after Franco Colapintoās crash at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Colapintoās Safety Car restart incident eliminated Alpine teammate Pierre Gasly and McLaren driver Lando Norris. Alpine said it will work with Formula 1, the FIA and other stakeholders to address online abuse. Alpine condemns online abuse after Colapintoās ...