With inflation hitting every corner of the planet, discussions have begun as to whether the $140 million budget cap can be increased, with teams concerned that they may miss races to avoid spending over the limit. Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto confirmed that these talks were taking place. “These discussions will take time,” Binotto explained
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto believes that it will be impossible for the teams to stick to the circa $140 million budget cap due to inflation. The spending cap was lowered by a further $5 million this season as part of the new technical regulations, and it was lowered again to reflect the fact that
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Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas has quipped that he may just start rocking up to race weekends after practice following yet another issue in Monaco on Friday. The Finn was unable to take any real part in the opening practice session of the season in Bahrain in March, before an issue in Imola a few weeks
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Daniel Ricciardo’s career both in Formula 1 and with the McLaren F1 Team looks to be becoming even more uncertain. The Australian has failed to take a step forward this season, following his first year with the team in 2021. 2021 was underwhelming for Ricciardo on the whole, excluding his incredible victory at the Italian
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The stewards have fined Ferrari 25,000 euros for the “grossly incorrect messages” they gave to Carlos Sainz during practice ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix. Most of the corners around the streets of Monaco are blind, so the drivers rely heavily on their teams to give them the correct information at all times as to
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Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz believes that he would have won the Monaco Grand Prix had it not been for a disrupted out-lap. After a delayed, rain-affected start to the race, Sainz took his extreme Wets all the way to the transition to Slicks, and ended up in front of team-mate Charles Leclerc a result after the
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Charles Leclerc was audibly frustrated over the airwaves during the Monaco Grand Prix after nothing seemed to go his way at his home race once again. The Monegasque started form pole after putting in a scintillating lap on Saturday, and he was leading the pack after a delayed start to the race due to the
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Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson was confused by how long it took to get the race going in Monaco under wet conditions. AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly had said that there was no rain forecast on his radar ahead of the grand prix, but that was proven very much not to be the case as it
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2016 world champion Nico Rosberg has sympathised with former team-mate and rival Sir Lewis Hamilton after a difficult Friday for the 37-year-old in Monaco. Hamilton registered a total of 58 laps in the Principality over the course of the two sessions in Monaco, ending the sessions 10th and 12th respectively, an average of just over a second
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AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly was left ruing his own performance coupled with a huge slice of misfortune that saw him qualify 17th for the Monaco Grand Prix. During the opening session, the track was evolving astonishingly quickly, and lap times were plummeting from the beginning to the end, so Gasly’s lap set earlier on in qualifying was
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