F1 fans are eagerly awaiting the start of the 2021 season, with plenty to look forward to, including countless driver moves, revised regulations and two teams changing their names. Specifically, Renault will be rebranded Alpine, while Racing Point will compete as Aston Martin Racing – and it’s the latter of these moves which is most
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Aston Martin Racing team principal Otmar Szafnauer has said it is a shame that they couldn’t run Sergio Perez as one of their drivers in 2021. Perez, who recently signed a deal with Red Bull Racing for 2021, was under contract with Racing Point for next season but the team opted to axe him to
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2020 was unquestionably a difficult season for Sebastian Vettel, with him struggling to get the best out of the uncompetitive Ferrari SF1000 and his younger team-mate, Charles Leclerc, outpacing him for most of the year. However, ahead of his move to Aston Martin Racing, Vettel has insisted that he has “not forgotten how to drive”,
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Honda’s decision to withdraw from Formula One at the end of the 2021 season gave Red Bull plenty to think about in the second half of last year. It quickly emerged that Red Bull’s preference is to take over the intellectual property of Honda’s power unit and continue to use and develop it after 2021.
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Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes and a shareholder of the Silver Arrows, reportedly blocked a new $50 million per year deal that Lewis Hamilton was set to sign during the 2020 F1 season. “In November, when Formula 1 went to Turkey, a contract was ready that meets Hamilton’s requirements: a four-year contract with a
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Just days after it was announced that Nikita Mazepin will be joining the Haas F1 Team in 2021, the Russian racing driver sparked outrage by posting a video of him groping a model onto his Instagram story. The post was quickly deleted, but it nevertheless triggered a wave of criticism which prompted Mazepin to issue
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George Russell was immediately on the pace after jumping into Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes W11 in Bahrain last month, and he was set to win the Sakhir Grand Prix ahead of Valtteri Bottas. However, a combination of bad luck and a team mistake in the pits costed him victory, but many in the paddock were nevertheless
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced Formula One to run a completely different calendar in 2020 – and, as a result, the sport raced in Turkey for the first time in several years. However, the track was resurfaced just a few days before the grand prix, and all drivers struggled on the very slippery surface in dry
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Soon-to-be Aston Martin Racing driver Sebastian Vettel has said he is excited about his future in Formula One and hopes that Ferrari will be able to mount a recovery over the next few years, as he still “deeply cares” about the team. “It was a difficult year, but I think I worked a lot in
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Helmut Marko, head of Red Bull’s driver development programme and a senior team advisor, has said that he believes Daniel Ricciardo was increasingly struggling to keep up Max Verstappen and suggested that’s why he decided to leave the team two years ago. He made the remarks when speaking about Red Bull’s decision to drop Alex
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