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Laurent Mekies called Max Verstappen’s Sepang victory a milestone: Red Bull Ford Powertrains’ first win as a power-unit manufacturer in its debut season.
Max Verstappen converted pole into his first Singapore Grand Prix victory, holding off Charles Leclerc.
Max Verstappen led every lap to claim his first Singapore Grand Prix victory, beating Charles Leclerc by 7.335 seconds after 62 laps. Kimi Antonelli finished third.
The FIA has completed its investigation into the Sepang software failure and outlined a two-stage response.
Max Verstappen won the rain-delayed Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia by 2.307 seconds, earning his first victory of 2026 and the first Grand Prix win for Red Bull Ford Powertrains. Kimi Antonelli finished second and now leads George Russell by 84 points after the Mercedes driver retired, GPBeat reports.
Max Verstappen’s win in the rain-delayed Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia gave Red Bull Ford Powertrains its first Formula 1 victory in its first season as a power-unit supplier, GPBeat reports.
Max Verstappen and Lando Norris each have 188 points after the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, three behind Charles Leclerc.
Pirelli expects a mix of two- and three-stop plans for the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, with little separating its projected race times.
Max Verstappen qualified ahead of Lewis Hamilton at Sepang, putting the pair in that order at the front of qualifying for the first time since Abu Dhabi in 2021.
Verstappen says drivers should train for racing in the heat, while Russell wants cooling vests made compulsory in high temperatures.
Organisers moved equipment and more than 500 personnel to Malaysia, but Friday’s crowd exposed problems with facilities and access at Sepang.
Red Bull returned an unused hard-tyre set after practice, leaving Max Verstappen with one fresh set for the race at Sepang.
Verstappen topped every qualifying segment and says he is confident in his choices for the race, while Hamilton expects overtaking to be difficult.
The Mercedes driver says even a stronger final lap might only have lifted him to second or third after a disrupted qualifying session.
After Verstappen’s pole, Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies credited recent development but warned that race pace and tyre wear remain Sunday’s test.
Red Bull took second and third in final practice at Sepang, prompting former F1 driver Anthony Davidson to describe the team as Mercedes’ biggest threat.
Kimi Antonelli led final practice at Sepang ahead of Max Verstappen, giving Mercedes an encouraging result before qualifying, though team-mate George Russell was fourth.
A bollard beside the pit-lane entrance has been moved ahead of third practice, with the aim of giving drivers who run wide a way back onto the circuit.
Red Bull’s team principal says a future need to make difficult calls between Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar would be a sign of strength.
With Formula 1 due back at Portimão in 2027, Verstappen says the current cars are ill-suited to circuits and questions the quality of battery-influenced overtaking.