🏎️ McLaren's British Grand Prix Success

British Grand Prix Results & McLaren’s Success

Max Verstappen won the British Grand Prix for the first time in his career this past weekend. This was his sixth consecutive win and now he has a 99-point lead in the drivers standing.

There was a new face on the podium this weekend with Lando Norris placing second. Norris was awarded driver of the day after his performance this past weekend. He had an excellent start to the race in having a faster start time than Verstappen and led the first four laps of Silverstone. This was McLaren’s first podium finish since Imola 2022 and also their best team effort since Monza 2021.

1. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)

2. Lando Norris (McLaren)

3. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)

4. Oscar Piastri (McLaren)

5. George Russell (Mercedes)

6. Sergio Pérez (Red Bull)

7. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)

8. Alex Albon (Williams)

9. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)

10. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari)

11. Logan Sargeant (Williams)

12. Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo)

13. Nico Hülkenberg (Haas)

14. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)

15. Zhou Guanyu (Alfa Romeo)

16. Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri)

17. Nyck de Vries (AlphaTauri)

DNF — Pierre Gasly (Alpine)
DNF — Kevin Magnussen (Haas)
DNF — Esteban Ocon (Alpine)

2024 F1 Schedule Released

The upcoming schedule for the 2024 F1 season was released this past week. With there plans to be 24 races which will be the longest season F1 has ever had to date. There are a few changes to the schedule from the previous year. One of them being that the Chinese Grand Prix will return to the calendar since 2019.

Full 2024 Calendar Schedule:

• Bahrain: Feb. 29 – March 2

• Saudi Arabia: March 7-9

• Australia: March 22-24

• Japan: April 5-7

• China: April 19-21

• Miami: May 3-5

• Emilia Romagna: May 17-19

• Monaco: May 24-26

• Canada: June 7-9

• Spain: June 21-23

• Austria: June 28-30

• U.K. (Silverstone): July 5-7

• Hungary: July 19-21

• Belgium: July 26-28

• Netherlands: Aug. 23-25

• Italy (Monza): Aug. 30-Sept. 1

• Azerbaijan: Sept. 13-15

• Singapore: Sept. 20-22

• U.S. (Austin, Texas): Oct. 18-20

• Mexico: Oct. 25-27

• Brazil: Nov. 1-3

• Las Vegas: Nov. 21-23

• Qatar: Nov. 29 – Dec. 1

• Abu Dhabi: Dec. 6-8

Upcoming F1 movie featuring Brad Pitt

This past weekend at Silverstone, Brad Pitt was filming for an upcoming F1 featured film. The team behind ‘Top-Gun: Maverick’ including Jerry Bruckheimer will help develop the film & Lewis Hamilton plans to be apart of the production team.

The fictional team for the movie is named ‘APX GP’ and Pitt’s character is named Sonny Hayes. Apple is the one that will be releasing the film and there yet to be a name or release date for the film.

Alpine promotes Bruno Famin to VP of Alpine Motorsports

Bruno Famin was formerly the head of Alpine’s F1 engine division and was recently promoted to Vice President of Alpine Motorsports. He will now be in charge of the F1 team. This will add an extra layer of management between CEO Laurent Rossi and team principal Otmar Szafnauer.