Red Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley believes it is imperative that the FIA thoroughly investigate what transpired in the controversial 2021 season finale in Abu Dhabi in December. Race director Michael Masi had initially ruled that no lapped runners would be permitted to pass the Safety Car late on in the title-decider as Sir Lewis
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Felipe Massa has revealed that he is not at all surprised by Ferrari’s failure to win a world championship since 2008, adding that the team’s unrelenting passion for Formula 1 can often be their downfall. Ferrari have won just 37 races since Kimi Raikkonen’s Drivers’ Championship victory in 2007, failing to claim a title despite
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Sir Lewis Hamilton cannot claim that he was unlucky over the course of the 2021 season, ex-Formula 1 driver Mario Andretti has insisted. The seven-time world champion was cruelly denied his record-breaking eighth F1 crown at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in December, after a controversial Safety Car restart by race director Michael Masi
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Sir Lewis Hamilton is “wise” to have distanced himself from Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff following the highly controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, as he doesn’t want to jeopardise his potential plans for a future in Hollywood. That’s according to 1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve, who said he believes that Wolff has “damaged
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has reiterated that should his drivers, Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc, find themselves battling for the championship this year, the team will not interfere. Sainz signed for Ferrari from McLaren ahead of the 2021 season, and was out-qualified 13 times in 22 races by his Monegasque team-mate. However, his four
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Dr Helmut Marko has praised the job Carlos Sainz has done with both McLaren and Ferrari since he left the Red Bull junior programme, but concedes that Max Verstappen’s pace cut his longevity in their system. Sainz out-qualified Verstappen 10 times in 19 races at Toro Rosso in 2015 during what was a debut Formula
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Mercedes have denied reports that their 2022 car failed a side crash test from the FIA, insisting that the W13 is ready to go for the new season. The Brackley-based team were said to have failed the side-on collision test, as the Italian edition of Motorsport.com had reported. “The static test was not passed a
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New FIA executive director of single-seaters Peter Bayer has affirmed that the Formula 1 governing body would like to continue working with race director Michael Masi, and sympathises with the effect widespread criticism has had on him. Masi was the centre of attention for largely the wrong reasons in 2021, with notable incidents in Azerbaijan,
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo admits that he would prefer to be fighting at the front of the Formula 1 grid, but indicates that he may want to spend the rest of his career with the team. The Australian struggled in his first season with the British team after signing from Renault at the end of 2020,
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Red Bull are unsure what to expect from their car from a competitive standpoint in 2022, but are confident they have done all they can to remain at the front of the grid. The team were interlocked in an intense battle with serial constructors’ champions Mercedes last year in what became an extraordinarily tense affair,
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