57 laps of the 5.419km Lusail International Circuit 28th November Practice 1 13:30 - 14:30 28th November Sprint Qualifying 17:30 - 18:14 29th November Sprint 14:00 - 15:00 29th November Qualifying 18:00 - 19:00 30th November Race 16:00 - 18:00 All times are UK times Poll closes before Race Quali - Saturday!!!!! Bit early this time With the drivers title a bit closer that it might have been on a track with mainly medium and fast corners plus high temp it could be an interesting race.
Nice and early this week,ched,you`re very good at this. Also ,Ive got a feeling Max is going to be really bellicose and aggressive ,ready to fight, he can smell victory.
Someone pointed out to me this week that if you compare the current state of play to the results going into Round 2, Norris has made up 1 point on Piastri and 17 on Verstappen in 20 races. It’s rather blown a hole in my “Since the summer, Norris has gone out and won it, across the year he will be deserving” narrative and exposed it as recency bias. If find myself now hoping he has a difficult weekend here and we do end up with a “winner takes all” scenario in Abu Dhabi.
I just hope it goes to the last race with all 3 in real contention . I feel WE as real fans deserve it .
To be fair he's been taken out by his team-mate, had a mechanical DNF, and a DSQ because of the team ****ing up the set-up, none of which has happened to either of the other 2 other than Piastri also getting dsq.
Tsunoda joins the fight at the front! If you need some hints Yuki, Bottas is hanging out at Merc again this weekend.
Adrian was interviewed by Ted and it almost seemed like Adrian is 'standing in' as Team Principal for the first few races as he will "be there anyway". I don't think the door is closed for Horner quite yet!!!
Door slammed shut . Horner to Aston Martin 'not happening' - Stroll please log in to view this image IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Horner is out of work after being sacked by Red Bull By Andrew Benson F1 correspondent Published 22 minutes ago Aston Martin owner Lawrence Stroll has told employees that Christian Horner will not be joining the Formula 1 team. Stroll gave a speech to staff at the Aston Martin factory on Tuesday in which he said taking on Horner was "not happening", sources have told BBC Sport. Stroll said in his speech that the new leadership structure announced by the team this week would remain in place. F1 design legend Adrian Newey is to become team principal from the start of 2026, in addition to his role as managing technical partner. Current team principal and chief executive officer Andy Cowell is to move into a new role in which he is responsible for setting up the relationship with new engine partner Honda and the team's fuel suppliers. Horner, who was sacked by Red Bull in July after 20 years leading the team, had been pushing for a role at Aston Martin as one of his options for returning to F1. An Aston Martin spokesperson denied Horner had been given a tour of the factory under cover of darkness by Newey earlier this week. Stroll did not deny there had been conversations with Horner in his speech. But there are questions as to whether Horner would be acceptable to Newey, who left Red Bull last April at least in part because of a decline in their relationship. Newey was upset about the allegations of sexual harassment and coercive, controlling behaviour made against Horner by a female employee. Horner was twice cleared of the claims by internal Red Bull investigations. And Newey was unsettled by politics within the design department, in which he believed colleagues were claiming credit for work he felt was his and that Horner was encouraging that. Horner wants to return to F1 but only in a position that gives him a shareholding and total authority over a team. Cowell was moved aside after it became apparent he and Newey had different leadership styles and opinions as to how the team would be run. Newey is regarded as arguably the greatest F1 designer in history, having won 14 drivers' titles and 12 constructors' championships with Williams, McLaren and Red Bull. Newey said in an interview with Sky Sports on Friday at the Qatar Grand Prix: "To be perfectly honest, it became very evident that, with the challenge of the '26 PU and Andy's skillset in terms of helping the three-way relationship between Honda, Aramco and ourselves, it is absolutely his skillset. "So he very magnanimously volunteered to be heavily involved in that through the first part of '26. "That left a kind of, 'OK, who's going to be TP?' And since I'm going to be doing all the early races anyway, it doesn't actually particularly change my workload because I'm there anyway so I may as well pick up that bit."
I’m not saying it will happen, but given Horner can’t start at another team for 6 months, I think you’d say that either way to avoid any “holding pattern” developing waiting for him to turn up.
