Unlike many other sports, competing in Formula 1 comes with an entry fee, which varies depending on the performance of the team or driver in the previous season. There is a set fee for signing on the to upcoming season, along with an extra charge for every point scored in the year just gone. It
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With Mercedes having launched their 2023 challenger – the W14 – on Wednesday at the home of the British Grand Prix, the Germans have dominated the headlines to absolutely no shock at all. They opted to complete their official shakedown test at Silverstone straight after launching the W14, with Lewis Hamilton and George Russell having
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The Netflix series ‘Drive to Survive’ will release its fifth season later this month, with the show becoming a massive hit amongst Formula 1 fans in recent years. The show takes fans behind the scenes of F1 to give them access to conversations and reactions that are normally hidden to the general audience. While the
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The new regulations that came into effect ahead of the 2022 season forced teams to entirely rethink the aerodynamic aspects of their car designs. Ferrari improved drastically in the new era of F1, becoming true title challengers for the first time in a number of years. The Scuderia eventually fell some way short of eventual
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2009 Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button is expecting seven-time World Champion and former team-mate Lewis Hamilton to “be on it from the word go” in 2023, in order to bounce back from last season. 2022 was a very non-Hamilton season, with the 38-year-old having slumped to sixth in the Drivers’ Championship, largely due to
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The 2022 season started off better than Ferrari could ever of imagined, with the team who have so often been lightyears away from Mercedes and Red Bull coming home with a one-two finish in Bahrain. The Scuderia had clearly mastered the new regulations that came into effect last year and flew out of the blocks
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The relationship between Formula 1 and the FIA is growing increasingly tense at the moment, with a large portion of the grid now having spoken out about their FIA’s new rule. Drivers such as Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel have been using their global F1 platform to campaign against injustices in the world in recent
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Since rebranding from Renault in 2021, Alpine have been steadily improving in Formula 1, ending last season as the best of the rest team on the grid, having been beaten to that title by McLaren the year before. The French team have now unveiled their challenger for 2023, the A523, with the team set to
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1978 Formula 1 World Champion Mario Andretti has warned the current grid to “worry” about reigning World Champion Max Verstappen, who the American believes will only “get better” with age. It’s remarkable to believe that 2023 will be Verstappen’s ninth season at the pinnacle of motorsport, despite being just 25 years old. It feels somewhat
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Williams Racing are one of the most successful teams in Formula 1 history, joining the grid in 1977 and dominating in the 1990s in particular. Daughter of the team’s founder Frank Williams, Claire Williams, served as the team’s deputy team principal until 2020, when she decided to step away for the good of the team.
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