Articles tagged with '2023 Season' | Pirelli

Max Verstappen’s dominance was again the story in Shanghai. After winning yesterday morning’s Sprint, the three time world champion added this afternoon’s race win to his tally. It is his fourth victory from five races so far this season, plus the …

A win and a pole position on the same day for Max Verstappen. The Dutchman made a clean sweep of it on Saturday in Shanghai, winning the first Sprint Race of the season in the morning before taking his first ever pole position at this track in the …

The first day of the Chinese Grand Prix was action-packed with plenty of surprises especially in the final part of Sprint Qualifying. After a few drops of rain began to fall towards the end of Q2, the final part was run on a completely wet track …

With the world championship drawing to a close last Sunday, there was just one more day of testing to be completed at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi, with all 10 teams running two cars each.The programme was split into two parts, with one car …

Max Verstappen produced the best possible finish to what was the best season of any driver in the history of Formula 1. Today, he took his 19th win from 22 races, bringing the triple world champion’s total number of victories to 54, which puts him …

Max Verstappen was totally dominant in the final qualifying session of 2023, fastest in all three parts, getting down to a time of 1’23”445 on his first Q3 run, enough to secure his fourth consecutive Yas Marina pole position. It was his 12th this …

The first free practice session for the final round of the Formula 1 season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, featured no fewer than ten “rookie” drivers on track. Best of the bunch was Brazil’s Felipe Drugovich, the winner of last year’s FIA Formula 2 …

MARIO ISOLA - PIRELLI HEAD OF MOTORSPORT    “We go from the lights of Las Vegas to the Abu Dhabi sunset in the space of just a few days, after a journey of just over 13,000 kilometres, for a race that is now well-established as …

The Las Vegas Strip Circuit really lived up to the city’s reputation for thrills and excitement tonight and, as usual this year Max Verstappen came out on top. However, the three times world champion had to fight hard for this one. Alongside him on …

Charles Leclerc is the first pole sitter at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit. The Ferrari driver dominated qualifying, fastest in all three mini-sessions. Proving the Maranello marque’s superiority is the fact that Carlos Sainz was second fastest, just …

The Ferrari drivers were the undoubted front-runners on the first day of track action at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit. Charles Leclerc topped the time sheets from both sessions: the FP1 time did not mean much as the session only lasted eight minutes, …

MARIO ISOLA - PIRELLI HEAD OF MOTORSPORT    “Formula 1 returns to the United States for the third time this year, following Miami and Austin. And it’s with one of the most-eagerly grands prix of the year, in Las Vegas, where the …

Max Verstappen has won the third edition of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. The result was never really in any doubt, even if second placed Lando Norris finished within ten seconds of the winner and claimed the extra point for the race fastest lap, …

Max Verstappen was the dominant force in today’s Sprint in Austin. The three-time world champion made up for the disappointment of his performance in yesterday’s qualifying to take pole in the Shootout and then go on to win the Sprint, even though …

On Sunday afternoon, Max Verstappen will start the third edition of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix from pole position. The Dutchman was quickest of the ten drivers who had made the cut to Q3, all of them only getting one run completed before the rain …

The final two Formula 1 races of the 2023 season will see the softest selection of Pirelli's six compounds on track. At both Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi, teams will use the C3 as P Zero White hard, C4 as P Zero Yellow medium and C5 as P Zero Red …

MARIO ISOLA - PIRELLI HEAD OF MOTORSPORT   “The Interlagos circuit in the Brazilian city of São Paulo is well-known for providing thrilling races. The lap is only 4.309 kilometres long, making it one of the shortest of the year, with …

Another win for Max Verstappen, his 16th of the season, another record for most wins in a year. It was the Dutchman’s 51st career success, which sees him equal Alain Prost in fourth place on the all-time winners list. The three drivers ahead of him …

The two Ferraris will line up on the front row of the grid for the third edition of the Mexico City Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc will head the field, having secured the Scuderia’s 248th pole position. Alongside him will be his team-mate Carlos Sainz, …

Max Verstappen was the dominant force on the first day of free practice for the Mexico City Grand Prix. The three times world champion was quickest in both sessions, with lap times faster than in the same sessions last year by 0.989 in FP1 and by …

MARIO ISOLA - PIRELLI HEAD OF MOTORSPORT   “The second stop on Formula 1’s American tour takes place in Mexico City on the circuit named after Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez: the brothers who were local motorsport heroes throughout the …

Max Verstappen secured his fifteenth win of the season, thus equalling the record he set last year. It was also the three times world champion’s fiftieth career win and today he really had to extend himself to fight his way to the front from sixth …

Max Verstappen was the dominant force in today’s Sprint in Austin. The three-time world champion made up for the disappointment of his performance in yesterday’s qualifying to take pole in the Shootout and then go on to win the Sprint, even though …

Charles Leclerc will start Sunday afternoon’s United States Grand Prix from pole position. For the Scuderia Ferrari driver it’s the third time he has secured the number one grid slot this year, all of them on the Friday of a Sprint weekend, the two …

MARIO ISOLA - PIRELLI HEAD OF MOTORSPORT   “Austin kicks off a series of four races – three of them run consecutively – on the American continent. And it all begins with the United States Grand Prix: a land that is steeped in …

Max Verstappen celebrated his third world championship title with yet another win, this one in today’s Qatar Grand Prix, his fourteenth this season and the 49th of his career. The Dutchman finished ahead of the McLaren duo, with Oscar Piastri second …

Oscar Piastri won the Qatar Sprint, thus ending Red Bull’s run of three wins out of three in  this season’s Saturday short format races. Max Verstappen was second past the chequered flag, which was good enough for him to clinch his third world …

Max Verstappen took pole position for the second ever Qatar Grand Prix. It’s the 30th time the Dutchman has been quicker than the rest in qualifying and he thus joins Nico Rosberg in eighth place on the all-time list for this discipline. Of the ten …

MARIO ISOLA - PIRELLI HEAD OF MOTORSPORT   “Formula 1 now returns to Qatar, two years after its debut there in 2021. But in many ways, it’s another new beginning, as the cars are now very different to the ones we saw a couple of years …

Formula 1 returns to the American continent in the closing stages of the season for three races on consecutive weekends (from 20th October to 5th November) in three different countries: the United States, Mexico, and Brazil. When it comes to the …