Former Formula 1 driver Jos Verstappen notes that there is more “respect” between Red Bull and Ferrari than the Austrian outfit had with Mercedes last year. Max Verstappen and Sir Lewis Hamilton engaged in an extremely tense title battle with Sir Lewis Hamilton in 2021, and the pair won an astonishing 18 races of the
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Former Formula 1 mechanic Marc Priestly has gone into detail around the issues at the McLaren team in 2007, indicating that a lack of communication served to make the situation worse. McLaren came into the 2007 season needing an all-new driver line-up having lost Kimi Raikkonen to Ferrari, while Juan Pablo Montoya headed to NASCAR.
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Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer has sensationally called for the FIA to “look” into allowing teams a “third car”, following Esteban Ocon’s absence from qualifying at the Miami Grand Prix. Ocon crashed heavily during FP3 in Miami, leaving his team with insufficient time to fix the Frenchman’s cracked chassis. The Alpine driver was lucky to
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Carlos Sainz has conceded that his adaptation to the F1-75 under the new technical regulations has been a difficult one, but maintained that there is no lead driver at Ferrari. Sainz has been out-qualified and out-raced by Charles Leclerc in all five races so far in 2022, and his campaign has not been helped by
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen had an eventful afternoon at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday, recovering from a mistake early on to win the race. Having started second, Verstappen was beaten off the line by polesitter Charles Leclerc, but he made a mistake during the first stint, flying off the track and into the gravel
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It was yet another difficult qualifying session for Sir Lewis Hamilton, as the British driver was out-qualified by new team-mate George Russell for the third time this season. The seven-time World Champion will start the Spanish Grand Prix from sixth on the grid, whilst Russell starts from fourth. It’s a bad omen for Hamilton, with
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Lance Stroll hopes his Aston Martin team can get to the bottom of why their upgrades proved so ineffective during qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix. Stroll and team-mate Sebastian Vettel have managed just six points between them heading into the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend, and they introduced a B-spec car in a bid
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Carlos Sainz has confirmed that a “gust of wind” caused him to lose the rear of his Ferrari going into Turn Four in Spain, and the trip through the gravel cause significant damage to his car. Sainz lost a place to the fast-starting George Russell on the opening lap, before falling out of the points
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George Russell thoroughly enjoyed his battle with Max Verstappen at the Spanish Grand Prix as he secured his second podium of the season in third. Starting the race in fourth, Russell got ahead of Carlos Sainz going into Turn One, and ended up ahead of Verstappen when the Dutchman made a mistake and went off
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Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel has acknowledged that it was always going to be difficult to find performance straight away in what was effectively a brand-new car at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. Controversy reigned ahead of the weekend when the Silverstone side rocked up to Barcelona with sidepods and venturi tunnels that looked uncannily similar
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