The Formula 1 ‘silly season’ spread to the team principals in 2022, as shock moves between teams seemed to be announced on a daily basis late last year. While most of the moves were part of the domino effect started by Mattia Binotto’s resignation from his role at Ferrari, the F1 world was shocked when
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With the 2023 Formula 1 season rapidly approaching, attention is already switching to 2024 and one driver in particular, Daniel Ricciardo. The fan favourite has, of course, returned to Red Bull for 2023, where the 33-year-old will occupy the role of development driver, with the occasional Grand Prix appearance as a reserve driver when Red Bull Junior driver
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Ferrari’s 2022 season rather petered out towards the end of the year, as Red Bull’s development of the RB-18, combined with the Scuderia’s strategic blunders, saw the team fall some way short of the eventual champions. The team showed that when they get it all right, they are more than capable of winning races and
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The Monaco Grand Prix is arguably the most iconic race on the calendar, with Saturday’s qualifying session being one of the most watched and highly anticipated events of the year. The track has divided opinion in recent years however, as the narrow nature of the street circuit makes it extremely difficult to overtake during the
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Mercedes’ head of trackside engineering Andrew Shovlin has revealed that the Silver Arrows upgraded the tools in their factory last season, with the Germans having been forced to look outside the box to get on top of their porpoising woes. The bouncing phenomena cost Lewis Hamilton and George Russell considerable performance in the first half
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Haas are a team on the rise going into 2023, as the team started the new era of Formula 1 strongly with an eight placed finish in the constructors’ championship. The team have replaced the promising but inconsistent Mick Schumacher with the experienced figure of Nico Hulkenberg ahead of the upcoming season, opting to prioritise
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Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer believes the bigger teams in Formula 1 are trying to “exploit” the budget cap rules by moving employees to different departments to ensure that they aren’t included in the budget. With the biggest teams in Formula 1 having multiple departments and other racing programmes, some of the current teams on
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When George Russell signed for Mercedes ahead of the 2022 season, he would have been excited at the prospect of learning from seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. As it turned out, the 24-year-old shockingly managed to outscore the 38-year-old in his debut season with the team, despite previously having only fought towards the back of
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McLaren star Lando Norris has revealed that he learned a “hell of a lot” from former team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, who he raced alongside in 2021 and 2022. The duo appeared to have a brother-like bond, with the pair having been inseparable off-circuit. McLaren’s decision to separate the two for 2023 wouldn’t have been easy to
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With Williams now filling their vacant team principal position with Mercedes strategy director James Vowles, only Alfa Romeo are yet to appoint a new boss for 2023. Vowles appointment came out of the blue this week, leaving Mercedes without a strategy director with only weeks to go until pre-season begins in Bahrain. Despite losing a
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