Very quickly, this Formula One season is shaping up to be a changing of the championship guard, with Red Bull inching closer to dethroning Mercedes, which has won the past seven constructors titles. Sunday’s Red Bull domination of the Austrian Grand Prix came from Max Verstappen, who for the first time in his career won the pole, led start to finish and secured the fastest lap of the grand prix at the Red Bull Ring. He has now led 142 consecutive...
Formula One’s two-week tour of Austria saw Max Verstappen and Red Bull dominate Sunday’s Styrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring, continuing their recent run of grand prix success. Verstappen beat Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton by 35.7 seconds to extend his championship lead to 18 points. Red Bull has won the past four races while Verstappen won consecutive races for the first time in his F1 career. He now has 14 career wins. The venue that is Red Bull’s home track also...
The “younger” drivers have certainly emerged as legitimate championship contenders as Formula One prepares for next week’s French Grand Prix. As summer begins to take hold, Max Verstappen (23 years old) stands as a real threat to derail Lewis Hamilton’s bid for five consecutive world championships. Verstappen holds a four-point lead over Hamilton, 105-101. Meanwhile, Charles Leclerc (also 23) has put himself in the “Big Three” category, having won the past two pole positions at Monaco and Baku. The Scuderia Ferrari driver...
By now everyone knows that Max Verstappen is one of the most impressive still-young drivers in Formula One, with nine race wins to his name. Verstappen, 23, became the youngest race winner in F1 history in 2016 when he won the Spanish Grand Prix, and he keeps knocking at the door for more wins. He started second at the Intercity Istanbul Park circuit already possessing nine podiums on the season. He finished sixth. (The photo in this blog is from his 2017...
Pierre Gasly, the young Frenchman who recently turned Formula 1 on its head by capturing the Italian Grand Prix for the small Scuderia AlphaTauri team, is the focus of today’s Hall of Fame Collection offerings that are sure to highlight any collection. A race-worn and signed helmet, boots and gloves are available, and the helmet is particularly stellar. It’s a stunning, state-of-the-art Arai GP-7 that the 24-year-old rising star used for the opening two rounds of the 2020 season, both in...