Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has revealed that there were improvements in relations within the team during a difficult 2021, after a tense season between drivers Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin. Both drivers entered the Banbury-based team as rookies last season having made the jump from Formula 2, Schumacher as champion of the feeder series.
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IndyCar driver Josef Newgarden has said that he would like to try out a Formula 1 car, but the championship does not appeal to him as much as racing in America. Back in 2010, Newgarden raced for the Carlin team in GP3 and was viewed as one of the potential future stars of Formula 1.
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Former Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve believes that Toto Wolff’s reaction to Sir Lewis Hamilton’s championship defeat last year has harmed his image. Hamilton was beaten by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in the final round of the season in Abu Dhabi following a highly contentious Safety Car restart by race director Michael Masi, drawing
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Automobile club of Milan President Geronimo La Russa has expressed his desire to run the traditional air show at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, despite a ban for 2022. Formula 1 has set a target to go carbon neutral by 2030, and part of this has now materialised in a prohibition of military air
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Former Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas has revealed that there were no complex negotiations with the team regarding his exit, and he knew he had to leave when team principal Toto Wolff could not offer him a longer contract. Bottas joined Mercedes in 2017 to replace the retiring Nico Rosberg, who had just claimed the championship
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Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has said that Pietro Fittipaldi will be next in line for a Haas drive if Mick Schumacher is needed at Ferrari in 2022. Following an impressive debut season with Haas in 2021, Schumacher was announced as the Scuderia’s reserve driver, alongside Antonio Giovinazzi, who departed Formula 1 at the end
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Max Verstappen has ridiculed Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff on a live stream of a virtual race. The 24-year-old poked fun at the Austrian after his team-mate was punted off the circuit by another driver during the sim race. Specifically, Verstappen joked that he would complain about the incident to Formula 1 race director Michael
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McLaren CEO Zak Brown has called for changes to stewarding and the penalty points system in Formula 1, and the American admitted that the team were “worried” about Lando Norris last year as he neared a race ban. He said he reckons that employing full-time stewards would be a significant step towards consistency in the
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Alfa Romeo team principal Frederic Vasseur says he is looking to take a similar approach to new signing Valtteri Bottas as he did with Charles Leclerc in 2018. Vasseur worked with Bottas when the Finn won the GP3 Championship with ART in 2011, before Leclerc achieved the same feat with the team five years later.
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Former Formula 1 racer Perry McCarthy has suggested that new Mercedes driver George Russell will be knocking on Sir Lewis Hamilton’s door in 2022 having signed from Williams. While out-qualifying Nicholas Latifi and Robert Kubica 57 times in 59 race weekends at the Grove-based team, Russell claimed a stunning maiden podium at the Belgian Grand
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