Sebastian Vettel can still have a strong debut season with Aston Martin if he can break free from his “negative spiral”, 2016 F1 World Champion Nico Rosberg has said. Vettel’s debut with the newly rebranded Aston Martin F1 Team at Bahrain last month was a poor showing for the four-time World Champion, with him qualifying
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Over five years after Nico Rosberg retired from Formula One, Mercedes strategy director James Vowles remains puzzled as to why the German decided to quit the sport just after winning the 2016 World Championship. That season saw an intense title fight between Rosberg and his Mercedes team-mate, Sir Lewis Hamilton, which went down to the
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Formula One is poised to trial sprint races at three rounds of the 2021 calendar, after all ten teams agreed a financial package for the proposal with Liberty Media. As per the deal, Liberty Media will pay each team a one-off payment of $500,000 to cover their costs of competing in the three trial sprint
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The Aston Martin F1 Team will be keeping an eye on Mercedes’ performance gains this season, as both team’s 2021 cars have a similar aerodynamic design philosophy and share numerous components, team principal Otmar Szafnauer has said. Mercedes and Aston Martin have both been hit hard by the 2021 regulation changes, which mandated cuts to
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Senior Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has no sympathy for the Mercedes F1 Team following them losing performance as a result of the 2021 regulation changes. Last year, the FIA mandated cuts to the rear floor and other downforce-generating components on the rear of the cars in a bid to reduce cornering speeds and
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Mercedes are still yet to extract all of the available performance from their 2021 car despite them making a big step forward after pre-season testing, Andrew Shovlin, the team’s trackside engineering director, has said. Red Bull’s 2021 challenger, the RB16B, was more competitive than the Mercedes W12 during the season-opener in Bahrain last month, though
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Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has refused to publicly voice his views on Formula One’s proposed driver salary cap. “It is an issue that we should discuss among ourselves as drivers and then with the FIA,” Leclerc replied when asked for his thoughts on F1 imposing a driver salary cap. Follow us on Google News to
MoreMercedes team principal Toto Wolff has admitted that he sometimes managed the tensions between Sir Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg with an “iron fist” to ensure they both respected the team. Wolff said he felt there was “some selfish behaviour” by Mercedes’ drivers – and he was prepared to take action to ensure the team’s interests
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The car which Mick Schumacher drove during his 2018 FIA Formula Three European Championship-winning campaign was entirely legal, according to Rene Rosin, team principal of the Italy-based Prema Powerteam. Follow us on Google News to never miss an F1 story! In 2017, Schumacher finished his maiden season in F3 12th in the standings, making him
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Hundreds of F1 fans have slammed senior Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko on social media for his recent remarks about Pierre Gasly’s qualifying performance in the 2021 season-opener. Specifically, Dr Marko said he believes Max Verstappen would have managed to set a faster lap time than Gasly’s best effort – which was good enough
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