Daniel Ricciardo has said he believes Max Verstappen is a better racer than his current team-mate Lando Norris, though he stressed that he probably thinks this because he has more experience with the Dutch ace. Ricciardo has partnered Norris at McLaren this year after deciding to ditch Renault last campaign. READ: FIA Responds To Sebastian
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FIA race director Michael Masi has responded to Sebastian Vettel’s complaint about the penalty he received at last weekend’s 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The four-time World Champion was awarded a 10-second stop-and-go penalty as the tyres weren’t fitted to his Aston Martin five minutes prior to the race start after his car was moved
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Red Bull have poached senior Mercedes engineer Ben Hodgkinson for their new powertrains division, the Milton Keynes-based team has announced. The move comes as earlier this year, Red Bull said it would be making a significant investment into its new powertrains division and would sign new talent following Honda’s decision to withdraw from F1 at
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has said the fact that they are “unhappy” to have missed out on a podium at Imola highlights the progress they have made over the winter. Leclerc was in an excellent position to score a podium at the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix prior to the race being red-flagged, and
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Former F1 racer Gerhard Berger has said it is too soon to make judgments about Sebastian Vettel’s performance at Aston Martin, with the German only having competed in two races with his new team. Vettel joined the Silverstone-based team after a woeful final season with Ferrari in 2020 – and many in the paddock had
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Senior Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has joked that the Milton Keynes-based team was worried that Max Verstappen’s stricken car would end up at Ferrari’s base in Maranello after it suffered a reliability issue during Free Practice Two (FP2) at Imola. After his car’s driveshaft broke during the session, Verstappen parked just after the
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Williams driver George Russell has said he believes Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc will be Formula 1’s biggest talents in the future – and the young Brit is open to going toe-to-toe with them, even as a team-mate. With Sir Lewis Hamilton considering retiring from F1 at the end of the season – and with
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Former F1 racer Jacques Villeneuve has said he doesn’t understand why Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff criticised George Russell for trying to overtake Valtteri Bottas at the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The pair collided as Russell had a run on Bottas down the start-finish straight and tried to overtake him on the approach to
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The Alpine F1 Team is looking to bring a number of upgrades over the next few grand prix after testing out a number of “promising” new components at Imola, team executive director Marcin Budkowski has said. Alpine scored their first points of 2021 at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix last weekend, with Esteban Ocon and
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It’s fair to say Nikita Mazepin’s first two race weekends in Formula 1 were poor, with him crashing out of his debut in Bahrain after just a matter of seconds and being the only driver to finish last weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix two laps down on the leaders. The F1 community has been quick
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