Mercedes driver George Russell has rallied the troops after his third podium of the season in Baku last weekend. The 24-year-old qualified fifth after Ferrari and Red Bull locked out the front two rows for the sixth time this season, but he capitalised on reliability woes for the Ferrari pair of Charles Leclerc and Carlos
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Sebastian Vettel was given a peculiar request by Aston Martin race engineer Tim Wright during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend. During free practice in Baku, the four-time champion was asked to remove one of his hands from the steering wheel, possibly in an attempt from the team to see how the car was behaving in
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Dr Helmut Marko does not believe Ferrari’s form in the last three races is entirely reflective of how the 2022 title fight is going to go down. Charles Leclerc retired from the lead of the race in both Spain and Azerbaijan after suffering reliability failures. Team-mate Carlos Sainz suffered the same fate last weekend in
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo was seen jokingly raising his middle finger at a fan on a balcony before the Monaco Grand Prix. The drivers were on the back of a truck undertaking their customary pre-race track parade to wave to the fans, thank them for their support, and give some interviews on their way round. While
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Charles Leclerc has gone from being the title favourite to being in the “worst situation”, after suffering yet another power unit failure. It was almost déja vu to the Spanish GP, as Leclerc saw his hopes of victory go up in smoke; his power unit gave way in the early stages of the Azerbaijan GP.
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Mercedes chief strategist James Vowles has revealed that Sir Lewis Hamilton had taken such a beating in Baku that his back felt numb at the end. Hamilton and team-mate George Russell suffered from a lot of bottoming out in Azerbaijan last weekend as a lot of cars began to feel the impact of the long
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When George Russell signed for the Mercedes F1 Team for 2022, everybody knew that the former Williams Racing driver would be the future of the German team; eventually ending up as the team’s number one driver. However, has Russell already taken the team leader role from Sir Lewis Hamilton, after just eight races? Nobody could’ve
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Former Mercedes Motorsport vice president Norbert Haug has warned his old team that their bouncing problems are unlikely to be solved purely by tweaking the regulations. The new technical regulations in Formula 1 this year saw the reintroduction of ground effect aerodynamics, which had previously been banned for 40 years. The subsequent changes to the
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Italian publications have gone in on Ferrari after the double reliability failure that saw Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz walk away from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix with no points. Leclerc started the race on pole with Sainz in fourth, but the Spaniard retired from the race nine laps in due to a hydraulic failure. The
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Ahead of last weekend’s disastrous Azerbaijan GP which saw both Ferraris DNF, Mattia Binotto spoke out against the “inexperienced” race directors that are controlling the sport this season. Race directors appears to be a topic that just won’t disappear, following the highly controversial end of the 2021 season. As is well documented, Michael Masi was
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