Frankenstein was born in 1924 in Flatow in what is now Poland but was then part of Germany. Three years after the Nazis came to power, in 1936, he was no longer allowed to attend the town’s public school because he was Jewish.
Leclerc clipped the back of Lance Stroll’s slow-moving Aston Martin, smashing the Ferrari’s front wing and causing a brief stoppage so the debris could be cleared. Stroll said he hadn’t heard a warning from the team over the radio that Leclerc was approaching before he moved across the track into the Ferrari’s path.In the end, though, Leclerc was fastest by .163 of a second from Verstappen, with Norris third-fastest, .326 off the pace. Alex Albon of Williams was fourth, with Piastri fifth. Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton placed ninth after briefly going airborne when his Ferrari went over a curb.
Leclerc went fastest again in an eventful second session which saw Piastri cause a red flag when he hit a barrier, though he recovered and was second-fastest, .036 off Leclerc and ahead of Hamilton and Norris. Verstappen could only manage the 10th-fastest time.French rookie Isack Hadjar called himself “so stupid” over the radio after twice clipping the wall with the rear-left wheel in separate incidents, damaging his Racing Bulls car both times.Monaco was once McLaren territory. It could be again.
It’s the most successful team with 15 wins in Monaco, but none since Lewis Hamilton took the victory in 2008 on his way to his first championship.tightened up a title race which was increasingly dominated by McLaren.
Oscar Piastri leads the standings, but now only by 13 points ahead of his teammate Lando Norris and 22 from Verstappen.
Monaco could favor McLaren because its car tends to be easier on its tires and, as Verstappen said last week, because his Red Bull dislikes low-speed corners.The crossover was every bit as noticeable at the track, too.
Before leaving his home in central Indiana, 32-year-old Austin Pettijohn made sure he came in the proper dress code — checkered flag shorts and an Indiana Pacers jersey.so many others in the colorful, estimated crowd of 350,000 for the largest single-day sporting event in the world.
With more than a dozen planes carrying advertising banners above Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Goodyear blimp also there, the sounds and smells of the track wafted through an infield full ofthat seemed every bit as popular as the driver T-shirts that typically dot Pagoda Plaza.