With Christmas Day having once again come and gone in a flash, many in the Formula 1 community were sharing any F1-themed gifts they’d received on social media, with many having received a LEGO Technic McLaren F1 car! However, as usually happens at Christmas time, an old controversial social media post by Lewis Hamilton resurfaced,
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Going into the final two rounds of the 2022 season, Red Bull had the chance to round of a perfect season, adding the team’s first ever one-two finish in the drivers’ championship to their already dominant year. Sergio Perez found himself in a close battle with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc going into the latter end of
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Alpine’s 2022 season can be looked at as a glass half full or half empty, as the team managed to hold off a late advance from McLaren for fourth place in the championship, but also faced a whole host of reliability issues. Fernando Alonso alone was forced to retire from six races in 2022, causing
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Charles Leclerc’s relationship with the now retired Sebastian Vettel is a mixed one, with the pair having raced together at Ferrari. Their interactions with each other, though, began before Leclerc was promoted to Formula 1 in 2018, where he raced for Alfa Romeo with support from Ferrari. Leclerc was an integral part of the Ferrari
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Formula 1’s popularity is currently booming across the world, with its audience in North America having increased substantially in particular, largely thanks to the hit Netflix docuseries ‘Drive to Survive’. The F1-themed series is a regular watch at the start of each year, with Netflix usually launching a new series just before the start of
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The FIA were forced to set a precedent earlier this year, as it was revealed that Red Bull had breached their new cost cap in the first year of its introduction to the sport. Teams had been limited to spending $145m over the course of the 2021 season and after investigation it was confirmed that
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Max Verstappen’s achievements at just 25 years old have been hailed as “quite frightening” by Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, who admits he’s “never seen” a driver before with the “raw ability” that the imperious Dutchman has. 2022 was a sensational year for Verstappen, as he claimed a second consecutive Drivers’ Championship with ease,
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The W13 has now officially been retired by Mercedes, with the team suggesting that while it was not one of their most successful designs in recent years, it could be one of the most important because of the lessons 2022 taught the team. The major shakeup in regulations at the start of the year gave
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When Daniel Ricciardo moved to McLaren to replace the Ferrari-bound Carlos Sainz, many fans anticipated that the Australian would strike up a strong relationship with his new teammate Lando Norris. The age and experience gap proved a stumbling point for the pair however, as their first year was overshadowed by a slight friction between the
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George Russell enjoyed a sensational first season at Mercedes, with the 24-year-old having ended the year above team-mate Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers’ Championship, a feat only Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg can boast about. However, whilst Russell’s 2022 campaign was a largely successful one, the British driver did play a crucial role in the biggest crash
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