Honda and Alpine fined by FIA over F1 engine cost cap breach

Honda and Alpine fined by FIA over F1 engine cost cap breach

Formula 1 power unit manufacturers Honda and Alpine (Renault) have agreed to pay fines for procedural breaches of the FIA’s engine cost cap rules. Honda will pay $600,000, while Alpine’s fine amounts to $400,000, after both manufacturers settled for a so-called Accepted Breach Agreement with the FIA. In its report the FIA said Honda Racing … Read more

Why Mexican GP believes it has bright future, with or without Perez

Why Mexican GP believes it has bright future, with or without Perez

Organisers of Formula 1’s Mexican Grand Prix are bullish that their sold-out event will remain successful regardless of Sergio Perez’s F1 future, and are working on a new deal. Perez signed a two-year contract extension earlier this year, but his continued difficulties to perform at a consistently high level have Red Bull constantly monitoring the … Read more

Stella critical of McLaren’s Mexico GP qualifying execution as Norris hits “limit”

Stella critical of McLaren’s Mexico GP qualifying execution as Norris hits “limit”

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella reckons the team’s execution let it down in Mexico Grand Prix qualifying and felt pole was possible. But Lando Norris, who was quickest in both Q1 and Q2, suggested he had hit the limit of potential in his car. He was unable to hit the ground running at the start of … Read more

McLaren instigates right of review over Norris’s US GP penalty

McLaren instigates right of review over Norris’s US GP penalty

McLaren has instigated a right of review request into Lando Norris’s penalty in Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix – the first step in trying to get the sanction overturned. Norris was hit with a five-second penalty for overtaking Red Bull’s Max Verstappen off the track as they duelled late in the race at Austin. … Read more