Ferrari “could struggle” at Zandvoort

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Ferrari “could struggle” at Zandvoort

The Ferrari driver does not expect his team to be notably stronger this weekend in Zandvoort than they were before the summer break.

“I think we can have a similar weekend to the last two ones,” Leclerc said yesterday. “Just because, before that, I think we haven’t optimised our weekends, just by doing some extreme changes to the car and trying to find what was wrong with the car. Once we understood what was wrong, we decided to focus on just optimising our weekends, and from that moment on the results followed. That will be the objective and the goal for this weekend – to just maximise everything.

“However, I feel like on a track like this, we might struggle a bit more. But if we do absolutely everything right, considering the wind conditions of tomorrow, the rain on Saturday, I believe that there will be an opportunity.”

F1’s US viewership back up after minor 2023 dip – ESPN

ESPN, who hold the rights to broadcast Formula 1 in the United States, say that television audiences have increased so far this season.

The network claims that F1 averaged 1.2 million viewers across its live race broadcasts over the first 14 rounds of the season, an increase of 100,000 viewers per race from last year.

ESPN also say that June’s British Grand Prix fetched the highest viewership figured ever for a British Grand Prix broadcast in the USA, with 1.3 million average viewers, as well as it being the biggest audience for a live race on its ESPN2 channel.

Major Schumacher memorabilia auction

Over 250 pieces of F1 memorabilia made up most of items owned or worn by seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher will go up for auction next week with no reserve price.

Auction house RM Sotheby’s are offering 284 lots in the ‘Schumacher and F1 Legends Collection’, featuring several signed helmets, overalls, hats, visors and more belonging to Schumacher and several of his rivals such as David Coulthard, Juan Pablo Montoya, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Jarno Trulli, among others.

The bidding will open on 28th August and run until 4th September.

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