Prime Tire Newsletter | This is The Athletic’s twice-weekly F1 newsletter. GO DEEPER How Max Verstappen can win the drivers' championship in Las Vegas and light up F1's glitziest race Scenario #3: Chaos reigns in Abu Dhabi McLaren enters the last race as the heavy favorite to clinch the title, but Norris scraps with Verstappen, and both cars retire. How …
Prime Tire Newsletter 🏁 | This is The Athletic’s twice-weekly F1 newsletter. Ferrari keeps surprising themselves – the team didn’t think the sweeping Suzuka corners would suit them, but the Prancing Horses were fastest in medium corners and on the straights on Friday. Sainz said Ferrari is “closer to Red Bull than I anticipated.” A fourth consecutive podium to start …
Prime Tire Newsletter 🏁 | This is The Athletic’s twice-weekly F1 newsletter. I defined “stretch of dominance” as “this guy sure has a lot of ‘1s’ in his ‘finish’ column.” By that highly scientific method, I landed on five other drivers with 43-race stretches similar to Verstappen. Finish Races Finished Max Verstappen 2022-2024 35 39 15 1.6 43 Lewis Hamilton …
