Postpone the meeting to tomorrow

At last year’s British Grand Prix, as part of the first-ever running of Formula 1’s new sprint race structure, drivers only got a single hour of practice on Friday before a second hour on Saturday morning. Advert | Become a Supporter & go ad-free In 2022, the British Grand Prix is not a sprint event (next weekend’s race in Austria will be). However, due to the rain falling at the worst possible time, teams effectively only enjoyed a single hour of practice again on Friday with the first practice session amounting to little more than a sodden shakedown. Thankfully, teams managed to make up for lost time in the evening’s second practice session and it was an hour that provided plenty of intrigue for the rest of the weekend – especially towards the front of the field. The only dry session of the day may not have seen any of the 20 drivers end up in the gravel or worse, but the wind and the jagged kerbs on the exit of the many fast corners around the Silverstone … [Read more...] about Mercedes and McLaren gains raise prospect of closest qualifying yet – rain or shine · RaceFans

Having dropped the ball a few times this season, Guenther Steiner admits Haas are “a little bit insecure” when it comes to strategy. The Italian, though, believes a few races where they get it right and their confidence will be bolstered. Haas’ 2022 championship began with three points-scoring results in the first four races. The points then dried up from Miami onwards. While part of that has been down to pace or reliability, Haas blighted by several Ferrari power unit issues, the pit wall has not always helped the situation. Two-stopping both cars in Spain where the rest of the field went with a three-stopper cost them late in the race, while in Canada the strategists got it wrong with Kevin Magnussen when they did not pit him under a VSC . “We always need to do something better,” Steiner conceded, quoted by Autosport. “We need to do that [strategy] better. We need to work on that. “It’s not that you don’t know the strategy and what to do, but we hesitate sometimes to … [Read more...] about Steiner: Haas must stop ‘hesitating’ on strategy