McLaren’s Oscar Piastri took his third win of the year and with it the world championship lead at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Piastri benefited from a penalty for Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to take control of the race and score his second win in a week. Verstappen was given a five-second penalty for illegally...
Combining consistent speed with the mental solidity and racing decisiveness he has always shown makes Piastri a formidable rival who, psychologically at least, will be a tough nut to crack. As McLaren team principal Andrea Stella put it in Bahrain: “There’s no noise in Oscar’s head, which is a very useful characteristic in Formula 1,...
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri took pole position for the Bahrain Grand Prix from Mercedes’ George Russell with the second McLaren of Lando Norris down in sixth. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, just one point behind Norris at the head of the championship, was a further place behind the Briton in seventh. Lewis Hamilton was just ninth in...
Verstappen led the two McLarens for the entire first stint, the three lapping closely together. There may be questions as to why McLaren pitted Piastri first, when it might have made sense to attack Verstappen with Norris with an earlier pit stop. Verstappen and Norris stopped on the same lap, one later than Piastri, and...
The former president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, says his US visa has been revoked. Arias, a Nobel laureate, said he was informed of the decision weeks after he had publicly criticised Donald Trump, comparing the behaviour of the US president to that of a Roman emperor. The 84-year-old, who was awarded the Nobel Peace...
Reuters Three weeks ago, Palestinian film-maker Hamdan Ballal stood in front of the world’s cameras in Hollywood, picking up an Oscar for best documentary film. The cameras were watching him again on Tuesday, a hand to his bruised face, as he walked awkwardly away in bloodstained clothes after almost 24 hours in Israeli detention. The...
Sebastian Usher Middle East correspondent Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images Hamdan Ballal poses with Rachel Szor after they won Best Documentary Feature Film for No Other Land at the Oscars A Palestinian Oscar winner has been attacked by Israeli settlers, activists who witnessed the event say, before being detained by the Israeli military. Hamdan...