Russian F1 commentator Alexander Popov has criticised Ferrari amid the disintegration of their title challenge this season. The Scuderia started the season in spectacular fashion as Charles Leclerc led home Carlos Sainz for a one-two finish in Bahrain, before the Monegasque again took victory in round three in Melbourne. Both Red Bulls of Max Verstappen
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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko has confirmed that his team are planning to bring more upgrades to their 2022 car as they look to seal the championship. Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, between them, have won eight of the opening 12 rounds of the season, and have established a dominant advantage over Ferrari as
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Mercedes’ George Russell believes that he is performing well at present, but he is aware that he can be even better, and this is what he is aiming for. Coming into the team to replace 10-time race winner Valtteri Bottas meant that the 24-year-old already had big shoes to fill, but racing alongside a seven-time
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Porsche are understood to have filed applications to get the go-ahead for a deal with Red Bull that sees the German car maker obtain half ownership of the team. Rumours have been circulating for months that Volkswagen were looking to enter Formula 1, and their subsidiaries – Porsche and Audi – were the main subjects.
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Sebastian Vettel has chosen a brilliant time to announce his retirement. Silly season is in full swing and there are plenty of drivers being linked with moves elsewhere. Two of those drivers are Fernando Alonso and Daniel Ricciardo after the four-time world champion confirmed that he will be leaving a vacant seat at Aston Martin,
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Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz was not too impressed when a group of Barcelona fans approached him and tried to get him to sign a Barca shirt. Sainz is known as an avid fan of Real Madrid, and will have enjoyed their La Liga and Champions League success in the 2021-22 season just gone. There is
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Vice chairman of Ferrari and Enzo Ferrari’s son, Piero, believes that Mercedes are trying to skirt the rules in order to make themselves more competitive, and affirms that his team will fight against it. This comes after the Silver Arrows urged the FIA to look into the technical regulations following the arrival of the “porpoising”
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McLaren’s Lando Norris has revealed that he does not want to risk throwing up in the car, so generally tries to avoid taking a drink with him into the car. At the Japanese Grand Prix in 2007, Mark Webber said over the radio that he had just been sick inside his crash helmet a few
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Formula 1 journalist Joe Saward reports that Fernando Alonso has agreed a new deal that keeps him at Alpine for another two seasons. The Spaniard has picked up right where he left off since he returned to the pinnacle of motorsport at 39 years of age last year, scoring points on 23 occasions with an
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Carlos Sainz drove superbly at the French Grand Prix to recover a fifth-place finish, having started from 19th on the grid. The Spaniard was forced to start from the back of the grid, after being awarded numerous grid penalties for exceeding the legal number of engine components, following on from his F1-75 blow-up at the Austrian
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