Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko is convinced that Ferrari are set to become weaker as a result of yet another change of team principal, with Alfa Romeo boss Frederic Vasseur set to take the poisoned chalice in January. The team principal merry-go-round continues at Maranello, with the Italians appearing incapable of “stability and continuity”, with the
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Mercedes-Benz appear to be looking into the future, with the German manufacturer having filed five trademark applications for their very own non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The Silver Arrows have an interesting relationship currently with cryptocurrency, with the Mercedes F1 side having recently seeing their partnership with FTX quite literally vanish. The cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy to the
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Ex-F1 driver Karun Chandhok believes there is a “clear difference” in how Max Verstappen races against Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, with the Dutchman being tougher on the British driver. 2022 saw an interesting title fight for some of the season between Verstappen and Leclerc, with the duo having also fought cleanly and most importantly,
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The best of the rest crown is always important for a driver’s bragging rights, as every individual seeks to be the best driver outside of Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari, who typically have much superior machinery. Despite McLaren’s slow start in 2022 under the new regulations, Lando Norris managed to beat the likes of Fernando
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The new regulations that were introduced at the start of the 2022 season would have made every team worry about whether their development path was the right one, with the rules being open to interpretation. Some teams arrived at the Bahrain test without sporting any sidepods, while others showed of their innovative wing designs, as
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Valtteri Bottas’ first season with Alfa Romeo was largely an enjoyable one, with the Finnish driver having claimed seven points finishes from the first nine races of 2022, before his season drastically changed. Alfa Romeo probably couldn’t believe how well they started the new aerodynamic era of the sport, with Bottas having astonishingly claimed sixth
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The major change in regulations provided teams with a golden chance to reinvent themselves at the beginning of the 2022 season, with the rules up for interpretation and really testing the cleaver minds of engineers up and down the paddock. Ferrari were one of the teams who managed to take full advantage of the changes
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The main concern that team principals had with the cost cap, which was introduced in 2021, was that they did not believe that the integrity of the sport could be maintained if breaches of the cap were not punished accordingly. Taking this concern seriously, the FIA chose to punish Red Bull with a sporting and
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The Red Bull Junior Team is one of the most prestigious elite sport youth academies on the planet, with some of the biggest names in Formula 1 today having come through the remarkable system. Max Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo, Pierre Gasly, Yuki Tsunoda, and Carlos Sainz are just some of the drivers who made
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McLaren’s new team principal Andrea Stella has been issued his orders by McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown, with the American wanting the team’s former executive director to hold “total responsibility for the performance” of the Woking-based outfit. Stella’s end-of-year promotion was not expected, with Mattia Binotto’s resignation from Ferrari having caused a chain reaction of events. Shortly after it
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