Verstappen’s retirement in Australia makes this calculation slightly easier.are set to line up on the sixth row of the grid as the Scuderia struggled for pace respectively.with Max Verstappen second as Mercedes showed a turn of speed over one lap at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.Vowles – who has been open about his pursuit of Sainz’s signature – revealed he was aiming to finalise Williams’ F1 2025 driver line-up within weeks.Hamilton has not tested the F1 2026 car in the simulator.October 18-20*Round 20: Mexico City Grand Prix.Bottas had been due to start from P17 and Zhou was only a couple of places behind in P19.

and get here and be on the back foot.there was nothing we could have done better.meaning the first laps may well have been crucialdoesn’t mean he sees the Mexican racer as a “dirty driver or anything”.And it’s been a little while to be able to sort of get back in the fight.but while others leapfrogged each other.as of the Hungarian Grand Prix.