Those who opted for two stops took advantage of the neutralisations to change fresh tyres without risking losing too many positions, in some cases even using the softs for a final sprint.

For Scuderia Ferrari HP, the 2026 World Championship began with a third place for Charles Leclerc and a fourth for Lewis Hamilton, the whole team producing a solid performance. The opening stages of ...

"We used the race as a learning session and stopped for several laps to check things over in the garage before heading back out. There's still quite a bit missing in terms of performance and ...

James Vowles, Team Principal: "A challenging weekend, but with good learning that will serve us well for our future.

Having clearly not received the memo from Stefano Domenicali, world champions Max Verstappen and Lando Norris remain unimpressed by the new generation of cars.

Lewis Hamilton leads the way as rivals accuse Mercedes of sandbagging and underplaying significance of compression ratio advantage.

What happened to Max is obviously very unfortunate and the most important thing is that he is okay. At the moment we are still trying to fully understand what happened.

The main takeaway from today is that we need to do some work to generate more power and extract more performance from the power unit.

Based on performance analysis and the condition of the sets at the end of the sessions, all three compounds could play a role in tomorrow's race strategies.

We have said all along that we would measure ourselves by how we execute and operate as a team and we did that really well today.

It was a tremendously encouraging qualifying session for the team, and seeing Gabi reach Q3 is a special moment for everyone involved.

What is clear is that today the gap to Mercedes is significant and we will have to make progress to get closer to them.