As rumours continue to circulate around Oscar Piastri’s future, Daniel Ricciardo’s place at McLaren is beginning to look more and more precarious. Sebastian Vettel turned the key on silly season when he announced his retirement from Formula 1 at the end of the 2022 season ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix. Fernando Alonso knocked the
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has advised against overreacting despite another nightmare race at last weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc had been leading the way in Budapest after passing polesitter George Russell, and looked set to execute a two-stop having pitted for Mediums later than those around him. Max Verstappen had made his way
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Former Lotus and McLaren boss, Eric Boullier, is confused as to how and why Fernando Alonso is seen as a disruptive influence on teams. Boullier worked with Alonso for three seasons at McLaren between 2015 and 2017, during such time the Spaniard became known for hitting out at Honda’s power units as the team struggled
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Pierre Gasly felt hard done by at the Hungarian Grand Prix as he walked away from the race with no points for the fifth weekend running. Gasly was eliminated in the first qualifying session in Budapest, but not before he had a lap time deleted for running off the racetrack, which he did not agree
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The Mercedes F1 Team are truly on their way back to the top, after an excellent double-podium at the Hungarian Grand Prix made it back-to-back two-three finishes for the German team. Over recent rounds, Mercedes have begun to close the gap to Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Ferrari, with the latter only 30 points ahead
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Sergio Pérez has found the going tough as of late, after failing to finish on the podium at the last three races, leaving him third in the Drivers’ Championship. The Mexican driver has failed to perform recently, having finished behind both Mercedes F1 Team drivers at the last three races. Pérez struggled to get up
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has given no guarantees that there will not be any further failures for the Scuderia this season. Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz have been on the receiving end of two reliability-related retirements each so far this year, and they were both sent out of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix with different
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Zhou Guanyu has confirmed that he has been “completely released” by Alpine, and Oscar Piastri’s current situation vindicates his decision to join Alfa Romeo this season. Piastri and Zhou both won four races in Formula 2 last season as the Australian won the title, with the 23-year-old finishing third. Both did so as Alpine academy
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Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has suggested that it was more prudent to take the time to figure out which upgrades would work, and which would not. Haas brought their first meaningful upgrade of the season to the Hungarian Grand Prix last weekend, but they could only install them onto Kevin Magnussen’s car. Two heavy
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The FIA seemingly accidentally shared a tweet by Canal Plus Formula 1 journalist Laurent Dupin which appeared to accuse McLaren of dealing in bad faith. The Woking-based team are set to become embroiled in another legal battle after Oscar Piastri’s manager, Mark Webber, reportedly signed an agreement with them for his driver to join their
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