Mercedes entered the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix weekend with a new aerodynamic upgrade designed to improve airflow and mitigate the “porpoising” troubles they have been experiencing in 2022. But in qualifying ahead of the sprint race in Imola, it didn’t appear to make things any better at all – in fact, the Silver Arrows looked
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Championship leader Charles Leclerc is excited to head to Italy for the first European race of the season in Imola as Ferrari get set to race in front of the Tifosi, but he has issued a word of warning to the Scuderia. Leclerc has won two of the opening three rounds of the season, and
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The FIA have summoned Russian karting driver Artem Severikukhin to a video conference on Thursday, where he is explaining his actions on the podium in Portugal earlier this month. Standing on the podium with Joe Turney and Evan Giltaire having taken victory in the first round of the OK class in the Karting European Championship,
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Kevin Magnussen has insisted that the Haas F1 Team aren’t disregarding Mick Schumacher’s feedback because he is less experienced than the Dane. Magnussen re-signed with Haas ahead of the 2022 season to partner Schumacher after the sacking of Nikita Mazepin amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, and he has bumped his tally up to 37 points
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Aston Martin F1 driver Lance Stroll has faith that his team can recover from their wretched start to the 2022 campaign, but is realistic in his expectations. Stroll, Sebastian Vettel and Nico Hulkenberg have all appeared for the Silverstone side this year, and have been unable to put any points on the board in an
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Carlos Sainz has hailed the “perfect scenario” of signing a new contract with Ferrari ahead of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola. Sainz signed for the Scuderia from McLaren following two seasons at the Woking side and, despite being out-qualified and out-raced by team-mate Charles Leclerc in his debut season with Ferrari last year,
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has hailed the qualifying performance by Max Verstappen on Friday ahead of the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. In extremely tricky conditions, Verstappen negotiated four red flag periods to beat Charles Leclerc to pole by seven tenths of a second. In the end, a second run in Q3 was
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Kevin Magnussen has said he still finds it surreal that he is back in Formula 1 with Haas, let alone achieving stupendous qualifying results like his P4 in Imola today. In wet and tricky conditions, Magnussen equalled his best-ever qualifying in fourth behind polesitter Max Verstappen, Ferrari’s Charles and McLaren’s Lando Norris, meaning that it
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Max Verstappen was thrilled to take his first pole position of 2022 after a heavily disrupted qualifying session at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, and hopes for better fortunes throughout the rest of the weekend than he has suffered in the opening three. There were four red flags in Friday qualifying ahead of the sprint
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Sir Lewis Hamilton was understandably disappointed after qualifying for the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix as both he and George Russell were eliminated from the second qualifying session. It was the first time since the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix that neither Mercedes has been able to reach the third and final qualifying session. A red
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