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Race report: Tough Sunday for the team at Imola (Mercedes)

Trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin: ‘Our bigger concern is around the pace. It’s been another hot race, and we were giving the rear tyres too much of a hard time. We therefore suffered from poor grip and degradation throughout. We’ve got to get on top of that quickly as there are a lot of hot races coming up and we can’t continue to perform at this level.’

Race recap (Haas)

Oliver Bearman: ‘We were in a really good position going for a one-stop race so when the VSC came out, we switched onto the medium tyre, and I was coming out behind Russell and he was (seventh), so we were on for a good race, but my wheel wasn’t attached properly in the pit stop.’

Sunday fightback (Ferrari)

Frederic Vasseur: ‘In the closing stages, we asked Charles to give back position to Alex Albon, because it was very close and if he had been given a penalty, we would have lost four or five places.’

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‘A promising one-stop strategy was undone by the timing of the Virtual Safety Car which dropped both Fernando and Lance outside the points. With hindsight, we could have pitted again under the VSC, but we did not want to sacrifice track position.’

The debrief (Aston Martin)

Andy Cowell: ‘A promising one-stop strategy was undone by the timing of the Virtual Safety Car which dropped both Fernando and Lance outside the points. With hindsight, we could have pitted again under the VSC, but we did not want to sacrifice track position.’

Race report (McLaren)

Andrea Stella: ‘With Oscar (Piastri), we deviated to a two-stop strategy. Had the hard tyres behaved just a little bit better, this would have been a strong strategy, but that’s something we have to judge with hindsight.’

Sunday (Sauber)

Nico Hulkenberg: ‘Unfortunately, the safety car towards the end of the race was of no help for us. At the restart I was surrounded by faster cars, and I was unable to keep Yuki (Tsunoda) or Fernando (Alonso) – on fresher tyres – behind me. In the end, everything combined to prevent us from scoring points.’

Feature race: Dunne fights his way to second win of 2025 (Formula 2)

‘The McLaren Development Driver went from fifth on the grid and made several important passes throughout the race in crucial moments to earn the victory. Hitech TGR team mates Luke Browning and Dino Beganovic rounded out the podium places.’

Feature race: Ramos patience pays off with Imola victory (Formula 3)

‘The Van Amersfoort Racing driver made the decisive move three laps to the end of the race to achieve his first Formula 3 feature race win and his second victory of the season. Camara wound up in third behind his late-charging team mate Noah Stromsted in (second).’

Autopolis (Super Formula via YouTube)

Tokyo race two (Formula E via YouTube)

Spa-Francorchamps race two (Formula Regional Europe via YouTube)

Scott McLaughlin with a MASSIVE impact 😬

The No. 3 car hits the Turn 2 wall in #Indy500 practice. pic.twitter.com/eXBunUAhKp

— NTT INDYCAR SERIES (@IndyCar) May 18, 2025

Incredible respect and commitment to all the drivers this year. Tricky conditions all week, cars more on edge than previous years. Everyone pushing the limits again and again without giving up. Love the spirit of this race #500

— Callum Ilott (@callum_ilott) May 18, 2025

ROBERT SHWARTZMAN IS YOUR POLE SITTER FOR THE 109th #Indy500 https://t.co/Y2LO4HMP6O

— Indianapolis Motor Speedway (@IMS) May 18, 2025

Robert Shwartzman’s first five #IndyCar qualifying results:

18th27th24th24th27th

And now he’s on pole position for the #Indy500!

Incredible result for him and Prema on their debut in the race.

— Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine.bsky.social) 18 May 2025 at 23:58

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