2022 will be a year that Mercedes would like to quickly forget, seeing their eight year winning run of the constructors’ championship come to an abrupt end, with a third-place finish last season. The new regulations that came into effect at the start of the year proved to be a major stumbling block for the
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The driver situation at Red Bull is currently a complex one, after tensions between Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez boiled over in Brazil, when the Dutchman refused to follow team orders that would have benefitted his teammate in his hunt for P2 in the drivers’ championship. The Mexican picked up impressive wins in Monaco and
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Ford have a rich history in Formula 1, first becoming involved in the sport back in 1963 and sponsoring the Cosworth engine suppliers from 1966 to 2004. Since withdrawing from any Formula 1 activities at the end of 2004, Cosworth continued to supply engines for teams in Formula 1 without the backing of the car
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The Formula 1 world was essentially sent into a period of mourning over the summer break, as fan favourite driver and four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel announced that the 2022 season would be his last in the sport. The German finished the season with a flurry of ‘Driver of the Day’ performances and a Q3
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The FIA have not had much luck with regards to the race director role in recent years, as they were forced to sack Michael Masi at the end of the 2021 season, and then chose to sack one of their two 2022 race directors following the controversial Japanese Grand Prix earlier this year. Masi was
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Max Verstappen has suggested that Valtteri Bottas accepted the role as number two driver at Mercedes, before moving to Alfa Romeo to experience life as a number one. Most Formula 1 teams operate with a number one and two driver policy, with the second driver usually being a rookie or of lower quality that their
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It looked as if 2022 would be the year that Ferrari win their first constructors’ championship since 2008 after the first few rounds of the season, as Charles Leclerc looked to be the man to beat while Red Bull and Mercedes struggled. In the end, reliability issues and strategy mishaps saw Leclerc and Ferrari struggle
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Formula 1 has been perhaps more chaotic than ever before off-circuit in 2022, with the action continuing to take place even during the winter break. This year has seen one of the craziest driver silly seasons in recent memory, with a whole heap of changes having taken place. The 2022 edition of silly season was kickstarted by
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Following a season of more black-and-orange flags than usual, the FIA’s technical director Nikolas Tombazis has admitted that the governing body ‘got it wrong’ during 2022. Throughout the 2022 season, drivers were being shown the ‘meatball flag’ as soon as an endplate became wobbly, with the governing body having become relentlessly strict in regard to vehicle
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Mercedes’ struggles were one of the biggest surprises of 2022, as the team got off to a slow start under the new regulations that came into effect at the start of the year. The new era of Formula 1 started with Mercedes already looking significantly off of the pace of Red Bull and Ferrari while
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