Newly crowned Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen will need to tread carefully in 2022, as he is not far from a race ban after a dramatic 2021 season that involved multiple clashes with Sir Lewis Hamilton. Drivers can only collect 12 penalty points on their super licence in a full year before a race
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Red Bull’s Sergio Perez has conceded that acclimatising to his new team was a slow process, but he has vowed to continue improving in 2022. Perez was signed by Red Bull for the 2021 season to replace Alex Albon, who was dropped after a very difficult 2020 for the Thai-British driver. Perez had recently won
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The controversial end to the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was “not right”, but the race was not rigged to favour Max Verstappen over Sir Lewis Hamilton. That’s according to Mercedes reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne, who says the rules regarding the Safety Car procedure were not followed in the season finale. Hamilton and Red Bull’s
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Race director Michael Masi’s handling of the Safety Car restart at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix “wasn’t fair” on Sir Lewis Hamilton. That’s the opinion of a former Formula 1 driver, who described Masi’s handling of the situation as lacking “any level of common sense.” Following Nicholas Latifi crashing in sector three with just
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff is confident that Ferrari will cause disruption at the pointy end of the F1 grid in 2022, placing them among the teams that will be strong next year. The eight-time Constructors’ Champions ended the 2021 season 290 points clear of Ferrari, who have endured a difficult last couple of years.
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto is excited by the prospect of the team’s 2022 power unit, which is reported to have overcome the 20 horsepower drop that will come with the new engines. Ferrari slumped to sixth in the Constructors’ Championship in the 2020 season, partly owing to an engine that was painfully down on
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Haas driver Nikita Mazepin says he took learnings from Formula 2 to help him in his first season in Formula 1 last year, and he believes he improved massively as his debut year wore on. Mazepin was signed alongside fellow F1 rookie Mick Schumacher to replace the departing Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean. Sadly for
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Ferrari sporting director Laurent Mekies has told drivers Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc to find the limits quickly in 2022, owing to the reduced budget cap that will be enforced next season. Formula 1 teams will have $140 million to spend this year, compared to $145 million million in 2021. This means that drivers will
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo believes that new F1 world champion Max Verstappen is the second-best driver in Formula 1, but the Aussie continues to back himself as the quickest in the sport. Verstappen dramatically defeated Mercedes’ Sir Lewis Hamilton to his maiden title in 2021, sparking suggestions that he has now overtaken the Briton as the
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Red Bull have ended up in court following the culmination of the controversial 2021 Formula 1 season, but it is not in a legal battle with Mercedes. Instead, they are fighting to keep one of their former employees away from Aston Martin, at least temporarily. Former Red Bull chief aerodynamicist Dan Fallows was offered a
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