McLaren have announced the departure of technical director James Key as they hope to transform their fortunes before the Australian Grand Prix.The British-based Formula One team have failed to garner a single point in the first two races of the season, with neither their new Australian hope Oscar Piastri nor their more experienced Briton Lando Norris yet troubling the scorers.
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Sergio Perez has won the Saudi Arabian Formula One Grand Prix from pole and world champion Max Verstappen fought from 15th on the grid to second to give dominant Red Bull a second one-two finish from as many races this season.Perez was briefly passed early on by Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso but never looked back en route to a fifth career win when he took the lead in lap four.
The Australian will start eighth in the Saudi Arabian GP, well ahead of teammate Lando Norris.
Red Bull's Sergio Perez has taken pole position in Saudi Arabia for the second year in a row after his Formula One champion teammate Max Verstappen suffered a driveshaft failure and qualified only 15th.Aston Martin's 41-year-old double world champion Fernando Alonso, who had hoped for his first pole since Germany 2012 with Ferrari, will join the Mexican on the front row for Sunday's race in Jeddah.
Max Verstappen has shrugged off a stomach bug to lead both practice sessions for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix as Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso prevented a Red Bull one-two on the timesheets.But Australian new boy Oscar Piastri again found life hard going in the uncompetitive McLaren, finishing 19th fastest of the 20 drivers in the afternoon's session which best mirrors the conditions he'll face in Saturday's qualifying.
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Max Verstappen has cancelled his media commitments at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix because of a stomach illness.The double world champion, who dominated Formula One's season-opening race in Bahrain a fortnight ago, said he has been battling with the bug this week.
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Just hours after having a season-opening victory stripped from his team, Shane van Gisbergen has taken victory in race two in a controversial beginning to the new Gen3 Supercars season in Newcastle.Red Bull Ampol Racing stars van Gisbergen and Broc Feeney were sensationally disqualified from their Supercars 1-2 triumph after a protest following Saturday's race.
Two Supercars teams have protested the result of Saturday's season-opening race in Newcastle, alleging the first and second-placed Triple Eight Racing cars used improper driver cooling systems.Shane van Gisbergen and Broc Feeney from Triple Eight scored a one-two for their team in sweltering conditions on Saturday.
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Gen3 is underway in Supercars and the new makes have delivered ultimate balance across three practice sessions where Brodie Kostecki clocked the fastest time ahead of Saturday's qualifying and first 250km race.Plenty of anticipation surrounded the new Gen3 Ford Mustangs and Chevrolet Camaro's as they finally graced the streets of Newcastle on Friday.
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, and a new Supercars Championship season is ready to get underway in Newcastle, where Ford Mustangs will face Chevrolet Camaros as a fresh era begins for the sport.Drivers are buzzing yet sceptical.
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The Aussie driver was replaced by compatriot Oscar Piastri for the 2023 season. Read more here.
Reigning series champion Will Power and defending race champion Scott McLaughlin have both copped avoidable contact penalties amid a crash-marred start to the Indycar season in Florida.Australian veteran Power emerged with a seventh placing while his Kiwi teammate McLaughlin had to settle for 13th after contact with pole-starter Romain Grosjean while dicing for the lead.
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Max Verstappen and Red Bull have made a dream start to the Formula One season with a dominant one-two in Bahrain while Fernando Alonso joined the party with a podium on his Aston Martin debut.But McLaren's Australian new boy Oscar Piastri suffered agony under the floodlights on Sunday, as he was forced to retire after 14 laps of his debut race.
Oscar Piastri has suffered a wretched start to life in Formula One when his debut Bahrain Grand Prix ended after just 14 laps, with the young Australian still stuck in his car in the pit-lane shaking his head.But the 21-year-old was later adopting a brave face on McLaren's opening-day debacle, adamant that there were still "positives to take" for a team seemingly going in the wrong direction after a dreadful three days.
Australia's Oscar Piastri has failed to get past the first stage of qualifying at the Bahrain Grand Prix in an underwhelming start to his Formula One career, blaming himself for making too many mistakes.The 21-year-old from Melbourne will have to start from 18th of 20 on the grid in Sunday's race after his struggling British team McLaren were left contemplating their cars' lack of race pace.