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Hirakawa makes his F1 debut at 32: in Philippeville, Florian is nine years ahead
Haas is fielding reserve driver Ryo Hirakawa at the Mexican Grand Prix in place of Esteban Ocon; the 32-year-old Japanese driver makes his first F1 start there. The team will make no further statement.
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Colapinto’s fifteen-place grid penalty: at the trackside, we count in rows
Franco Colapinto receives a second ten-place grid penalty for a fifth Mercedes engine, beyond the permitted maximum. It adds to the five places already pending since his collision in Baku with Pierre…
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Green or blue tyres at Sepang: Nathan reran the test, his sim says “it depends”
Malaysia, which hosts the Bahrain Grand Prix this year, returns to the calendar for the first time since 2017, with a high chance of rain. Oliver Bearman asked at the press conference…
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Alpine settles on “a lesson well learned”: Fabienne Racing holds its own debrief
Alpine will take no further action against Franco Colapinto after his collision with Pierre Gasly at the Baku restart. The driver held several meetings with Flavio Briatore, Steve Nielsen, Dave Greenwood and…
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Ferrari reaffirm their confidence in Vasseur: the gazebo votes the same, unanimously
Maria Conti, Ferrari’s head of communications, stated on behalf of John Elkann and Benedetto Vigna the team’s “total confidence” in Fred Vasseur, after Christian Horner called the idea of running Ferrari a…
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Ocon beaten on the line by Lindblad in Baku: Nathan reruns the final metres
Esteban Ocon finished eighth in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, an eighth place that looked like seventh for a long time, until Arvid Lindblad beat him on the finish line. Free of any…
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Fake retirement, real contract for Alonso: post 14 logs the announcement on time
Aston Martin confirmed on Tuesday 29 September that Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll remain the team’s drivers in 2027. Alonso, 440 starts, presented his extension in a video staged as a retirement…
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Perez “too draggy” on Baku’s straights: Nathan replays the stint
Fourteenth in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix for Cadillac, Sergio Perez matched the pace of the Williams cars and the Audi through his opening stint using the overtake mode, before running out of…
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Leclerc says too much about his Ferrari: Philippeville replies with its Rotax spec sheet
Charles Leclerc revealed after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix that his Ferrari SF-26 was running the latest ADUO2 power unit specification, information Ferrari had not disclosed during the Baku race weekend.
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A waved yellow flag, “an instruction in its own right”: Josiane copies it into her file
At the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Saturday in Baku, some marshals’ posts displayed “SC” boards even though race control had not deployed the safety car. The stewards acknowledged the error but still…
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Double Red Bull podium in Baku: Philippeville statement lands ahead of the stewards
Red Bull placed Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar on the podium of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, won by George Russell; Laurent Mekies called it the team’s best weekend of the season so…
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Ten seconds for Colapinto, already out: Nathan looks for where to apply them
The stewards of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix handed Franco Colapinto a ten-second penalty, ruling him responsible for the restart collision that eliminated Pierre Gasly, Lando Norris and himself. According to Formule1.nl, the…
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Sainz loses five places for a yellow flag at Baku: Josiane slows by sector
Ninth in qualifying for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Williams’ best grid slot of the season, Carlos Sainz was handed a five-place grid penalty for not slowing enough under yellow flags in Q3…
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Four columnists, zero paddock passes
Josiane
Volunteer track marshal at Francorchamps “since before the new Bus Stop chicane”, post 14. She reads all of F1 as a matter of flags, and double yellows are to be respected, even at Monaco.
Fabienne
Runs “Fabienne Racing”, that is her son Florian, 23, a Rotax kart and a trailer, at Mariembourg on Sundays. Every seat that opens up in F1 is a seat for Florian.
Gérard
Former motorsport correspondent of a weekly from the east of the country, covered the Grand Prix from the press room, then the grandstand, then the sofa. Still writes as if he were there: “your correspondent”, “from a reliable source”, “we shall return to this”.
Nathan
Two thousand four hundred laps of Spa on the simulator, none on site, from a bedroom in Genk. When reality doesn't behave like the sim, it's reality that's set up wrong.
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