Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc will be given a 10-place grid penalty at this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix after his engine failure last weekend in Baku, according to reports. Having already had a reliability failure that put him out of the Spanish Grand Prix while comfortably leading, Leclerc was at the head of the pack in Azerbaijan
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Mercedes’ George Russell is pleased that the FIA took swift action on the “porpoising” and bouncing issues that have been affecting them and other teams on the grid this season. Russell and team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton spent the first five races of the year struggling with the “porpoising” phenomenon, which is caused by aerodynamic deficiencies
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AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly predicts that this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix will pose a big challenge to the drivers due to the raised kerbs at the final chicane. Fresh off his best result of the year with a P5 in Baku last time out, Gasly heads to Montreal for the first time since 2019 this weekend
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff does not believe that Sir Lewis Hamilton has lost any of his pace since the end of the 2021 season. Hamilton was cruelly denied an eighth world title last year on the final lap of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix following a controversial Safety Car restart by now former race
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Giedo van der Garde believes that Carlos Sainz needs to relax more, as he is putting too much emphasis on beating Charles Leclerc at Ferrari. The Spaniard has suffered a series of mistakes and reliability failures so far in 2022, and is yet to win a race after not quite finding the necessary performance in
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Mercedes chief strategist James Vowles has conceded that the Silver Arrows were too aggressive with their set-up in Baku, leading to severe back pain for Sir Lewis Hamilton. Having perceivably sorted their “porpoising” issue in Spain a few weeks ago, Mercedes felt able to adjust the setup and run the cars lower to the ground
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Nigel Mansell has sold the Ferrari 640 that he used in the 1989 Formula 1 season for 3.6 million euros using the Himalayan Dollar [HDO] cryptocurrency. The Briton sold the car to auction house RM Sotheby, who reckon that this is the first time a Ferrari Formula 1 driver has offered up a semi-automatic car.
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Former Formula 1 driver Nikita Mazepin says that Mick Schumacher’s results at Haas “speak for themselves,” and reveals that no one at the team has reached out to him since his release. Mazepin entered F1 with the Haas team last year thanks in part to the oligarch money paid to the American outfit by his
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David Coulthard has made an amusing video remixing former Red Bull team-mate and Channel 4 colleague Mark Webber’s scream from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in 2021. Max Verstappen had caused a red flag in Baku last year when he suffered a puncture late on while leading, and the subsequent collision with the barrier on the
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After winning three of the last four races, Max Verstappen is virtually in complete control of the 2022 World Championship, however, the Dutchman believed his title defence was over after just three rounds. The start of the season was horrific for the 2021 World Champion, after suffering two reliability-based DNFs in the opening three rounds
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