Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas is the latest to feel the wrath of 1997 champion Jacques Villeneuve after the recent double-header in Azerbaijan and Canada. Bottas had out-qualified Zhou Guanyu in all of the opening seven rounds of the season, out-performing him in every race bar one, when he retired from the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
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McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has heaped praise onto IndyCar driver Colton Herta amid the continued links to a Formula 1 seat for the American. Since the start of his career in 2018, Herta has won seven races in the American series with Harding and Andretti, who tried to buy the Sauber Group last year
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Former Formula 1 driver Nikita Mazepin is uneasy with the public criticism of former Haas team-mate Mick Schumacher by team principal Guenther Steiner. Schumacher exhausted Haas’ repair budget in the second round of the season with his nasty collision during qualifying for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, and he incurred the wrath of Steiner when
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When George Russell made the step from Williams to Mercedes at the start of the season, there were plenty of question marks as to whether he would be able to match team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton. For the most part he has answered those with aplomb, out-qualifying the seven-time champion five times in the opening nine
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Football’s El Clasico is usually the first thing that comes to mind when a rivalry between Madrid and Barcelona is brought up, but things are a little different this time. Barcelona has been the exclusive host of the Spanish Grand Prix since 1991 when it took over from Jerez, and it has been the chosen
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Sir Lewis Hamilton will not allow his head to drop after a challenging start to the 2022 season with Mercedes. The Silver Arrows have struggled to adapt to the new technical regulations which have seen the return of ground effect aerodynamics, and the subsequent “porpoising” and bouncing they have suffered on the straight has cost
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The Formula 1 community has expressed its frustration at Air Canada after a number of people, including a pregnant Williams team member, were removed from a flight from Montreal to London. After the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, a plane carrying multiple members of the paddock was held on the ground by armed forces who, with
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Red Bull’s Sergio Perez sustained a neck injury in the aftermath of his qualifying crash at the Canadian Grand Prix. The Mexican locked up going into Turn Three in Montreal in wet conditions, and was a passenger as he slid across the grass and straight into the barrier. He would start the race 13th as a
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Ferrari senior performance engineer Jock Clear affirms that there still a long way to go in the 2022 title fight after Red Bull took control over the last six races. Charles Leclerc claimed the win in two of the first three rounds of the season as Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez both suffered reliability issues
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Former Formula 1 driver Christian Danner says the buck stops with Mercedes boss Toto Wolff as far as their failure to launch a title challenge this year. The new technical regulations brought about the return of ground effect aerodynamics in 2022 and, as such, a completely new philosophy was needed as to how to design
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