Huge question marks were raised in 2016 as to why Mercedes decided to swap over their mechanics as Nico Rosberg beat Sir Lewis Hamilton to the title. Hamilton and Rosberg had gone through a bitter rivalry in 2014 and 2015 as they fought for the title, winning 32 of the 38 races between them across
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Six teams are expected to counter the FIA’s proposed changes to the technical regulations next season as they attempt to counter “porpoising” and bouncing. In Canada, the govern body started measuring the cars to see how much the cars were oscillating and, as of the Belgian Grand Prix, teams could be asked to raise the
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Carlos Sainz has reasserted that he is not at Ferrari to play second fiddle following suggestions that the team should start prioritising Charles Leclerc. Sainz has been out-qualified by his team-mate nine times this season, but he took pole in Silverstone before winning the race, and the pair got their elbows out with one another
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen is not keen on speaking up about politics, insisting that there is a “time and a place” for it. In recent years, Sir Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel have been highly vocal about key world issues relating to the environment, equality and social justice. Most recently, Nelson Piquet and Juri Vips
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has said that the regulations for next season are “up in the air,” and believes that there should have been instant action taken against deflecting floor planks. The FIA introduced a technical directive at the Canadian Grand Prix, in which they will create a metric for oscillating movement from the
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Daniel Ricciardo was left frustrated after being knocked out in the second phase of qualifying at the French Grand Prix on Saturday. The Australian missed out on Q3 by eight hundredths of a second to Kevin Magnussen as he ended up 11th, while Lando Norris made it into the shootout just over two tenths ahead
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen is aiming for a strong performance in Sunday’s French Grand Prix after qualifying second behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. Red Bull looked as though they were struggling to find pace in Friday practice as Leclerc and Carlos Sainz set the pace, but he went quickest in FP3 after the Austrian side did
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Mercedes trackside engineer Andrew Shovlin has told Red Bull and Ferrari that there is no evidence to suggest that the proposed rule changes next year are designed to help them. In order to make sure that “porpoising” and bouncing do not become unsafe next season, the FIA are changing the design of the cars next
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Charles Leclerc was grateful to team-mate Carlos Sainz for giving him a slipstream during qualifying as he claimed his seventh pole position of the season in France. Leclerc had gone quickest in the first free practice session as Ferrari looked to continue their impressive run of form, and he topped the first qualifying session on
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AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly was relatively satisfied after the first two practice sessions ahead of the French Grand Prix this weekend. Gasly ended the first session P5 as the teams put their one-lap performance to the test as Mercedes reserve Nyck de Vries ended up a very respectable five tenths off George Russell as he ended
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