Senior Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko has revealed that Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz had a “toxic” relationship during their tenure at Red Bull’s junior team. The Spaniard joined Scuderia Toro Rosso in 2015, partnering Verstappen in his debut season in Formula 1. Sainz stayed at the Faenza-based team until the end of 2017,
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has reiterated that he is wary of the threat from Mercedes after their strong performances of late. The race pace of the W13 has looked much improved in recent rounds since the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, after which Sir Lewis Hamilton looked in a lot of discomfort due to his
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Robert Schwartzman was back behind the wheel of a Ferrari F1 car for the first-time since January, after completing 681 km of the Mugello Circuit. It’s been a quiet year for the 2021 Formula 2 runner-up, who saw his 2022 campaign end before it had even started. The Israeli-born driver previously raced under the now-banned
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George Russell has performed remarkably well since joining the Mercedes F1 Team, despite the team’s frustrating first half of the season. Mercedes have struggled with porpoising for the majority of the year so far; however, until the British Grand Prix, Russell was the only driver on the grid to have finished every race in the top five.
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AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly has stressed the importance of the Italian side finding some performance after an awful last few rounds. Gasly and team-mate Yuki Tsunoda have scored six points finishes in 11 races between them this season, and the pace of the car has been nowhere near as capable of performing towards the front of
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Max Verstappen saw his World Championship lead reduced by six points at the Austrian Grand Prix, after having to settle for second at Red Bull’s home race. However, despite not finishing on the top step, Verstappen was praised for his “professional” behaviour during the race, where he was overtaken by race winner Charles Leclerc three times.
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Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has revealed that he had a “flashback” of the high-impact collision between Sir Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen when he overtook the Briton at the 2022 British Grand Prix. Hamilton and Verstappen crashed on the opening lap of the British Grand Prix last year, as the Dutchman hung his Red Bull
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The Mercedes F1 Team recovered a staggering third and fourth-place finish at the Austrian Grand Prix, after almost being forced to miss the weekend due to heavy crashes on Friday. Both Sir Lewis Hamilton and George Russell crashed during Q3, with Hamilton going off at Turn Seven, and Russell at the final corner. It left
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has revealed that he has always stayed true to who he is, and has never tried to emulate any of the great Formula 1 drivers of the past. Verstappen has been compared to the likes of Michael Schumacher in his young career for his outstanding race craft, as well as his
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Former Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has indicated that it is time for an experienced head to be placed in charge of Formula 1 races, and there would be no one better, in his mind, than Herbie Blash. Blash was recruited to the FIA by Ecclestone following the pair’s tenure together at Brabham, and he
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