Kelly Piquet has found herself on the receiving end of backlash after her father, three-time F1 world champion Nelson Piquet, used a racial slur against Sir Lewis Hamilton. The former Formula 1 driver called Hamilton the n-word while analysing his collision with Max Verstappen at the 2021 British Grand Prix. “The little n**** [Hamilton] put
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has indicated that there are some teams on the grid that should be taking the issue of safety a little more seriously as the “porpoising” and bouncing topic continues. The FIA introduced a directive at the Canadian Grand Prix last time out stating that any team whose car is oscillating
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Porpoising has been a serious issue for a number of teams so far this season, with the new regulations resulting in a number of cars bouncing at high speeds. Drivers have been seen bouncing vigorously in their cockpit, as a result of the aggressiveness of the problem. None more so than the Mercedes F1 Team,
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Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack has expressed his intention to keep Sebastian Vettel around, if the four-time world champion wants to stay. Vettel joined the British side last year after spending six seasons at Ferrari, but the side that had been competing for third in the Constructors’ Standings in 2020 under their Racing Point
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Former Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean has told Haas driver Mick Schumacher to relax and stop trying to achieve the results team-mate Kevin Magnussen was getting at the start of the season. Schumacher has twice been involved in scarily big crashes this year – first in Jeddah and then in Monaco, blowing a whole through
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Felipe Massa’s Formula 1 career will always be remembered for coming so agonisingly close to the 2008 World Championship, where he looked set to become the first Brazilian F1 champion since Ayrton Senna. Sir Lewis Hamilton’s famous last lap overtake on Timo Glock saw the Brit snatch the title away from Massa to claim his
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Alpine driver Esteban Oon is very pleased with the progress his team are making on the developmental side of things. Ocon has been in the points in seven of the opening nine rounds of the season, but neither he nor team-mate Fernando Alonso have been on the podium just yet. It took until the 11th round
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Because Mercedes have not suffered with reliability issues yet in 2022, that does not mean that they can blindly trust it will remain that way. There has been a total of seven reliability-related failures so far this year between Red Bull and Ferrari, with Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz all being
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Racing driver Tom Coronel believes that Ferrari ought to be enquiring as to the availability of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Following a shaky start to his title defence due to reliability issues, Verstappen has now won six races this season with Red Bull, and finds himself 46 points clear of team-mate Sergio Perez at the
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Netflix’s F1 series Drive to Survive has certainly done wonders for the sport in terms of growing the audience worldwide. The series has created narratives over recent years, and has captured outbursts from both drivers and team principals not usually seen on TV. It’s rumoured that the biggest outburst yet will be seen on the
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