Safety Car restarts have once again become the talk of the town in Formula 1 after Sergio Perez was told to allow Carlos Sainz to pass him in Saudi Arabia. Having began the race in Jeddah on pole, Perez was comfortably leading the pack when he went for the undercut and pitted from the Mediums
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has revealed that there is still an element of apprehension surrounding the team’s engine after several failures in the early part of 2022. Red Bull were set to start making their own powertrains after he departure of Honda at the end of 2021, but it was confirmed over the
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Mercedes have said that Sir Lewis Hamilton did not pit under the late Virtual Safety Car (VSC) in Saudi Arabia because he believed the pitlane was closed. The Briton started the race 15th after a horrible qualifying that saw him knocked out in the first phase, before the incapacity of Mick Schumacher’s destroyed Haas after
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Mercedes driver George Russell says that he and team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton were running different set-ups in Saudi Arabia in a bid to eliminate the issues they have been facing in 2022. Hamilton was shockingly knocked out of the first qualifying phase on Saturday, and revealed afterwards that he had altered his set-up, but described
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Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has reiterated his belief that the pinnacle of motorsport can act as a catalyst for change in Saudi Arabia after missile strikes jeopardised the event on Friday. F1 headed to Saudi Arabia this weekend in the midst of incremental tensions between themselves and Yemen after their war began in 2015
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The stewards have found that Alex Albon was to blame for his crash with Lance Stroll at the end of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, and have given him a grid drop for the next race in Melbourne. In the closing stages of the race in Jeddah, Albon attempted an ambitious move on the inside
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There was a slight sense of déjà vu at the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix last weekend, as Nicholas Latifi collided with the barrier and turned the race on its head. Sergio Perez had taken pole in Jeddah, and was leading Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc relatively comfortably in the opening stint, maintaining the gap at just
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Having spent five years alongside Sir Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas sees the peculiarity in watching the seven-time champion get knocked out in the first qualifying phase in Saudi Arabia. Hamilton changed his set-up ahead of qualifying in Jeddah, but was eliminated in the first part as he set a lap good enough only
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Following a controversial, tumultuous, scary and exhausting weekend in Jeddah, Sir Lewis Hamilton is relieved to be going home. Missile attacks marred the opening day of the weekend at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, with the drivers eventually coming to the decision to race amid a GPDA statement that they were satisfied that everyone in
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Pierre Gasly was “screaming” in agony during the latter stages of the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix due to pain on the left side of his abdomen, and is relieved to have made it to the end of the grand prix in eighth. The Frenchman spent much of the race battling with the McLaren pair
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