Alpine will have an all-French driver line-up in 2023 after a complex domino effect involving Fernando Alonso, Oscar Piastri and Pierre Gasly saw the latter driver freed from the Red Bull system to race for the French team. The team initially wanted to replace the Aston Martin-bound Alonso with their young driver Piastri. However after
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A major change in regulations always springs some surprises. 2014 saw Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull’s dominance come to an end at the hands of Mercedes, while 2022 saw the shoe on the other foot as Red Bull brought Mercedes’ eight-year championship winning run to an end. Ferrari were the surprise package of 2022, with
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Alex Albon is one of the biggest ‘what if’ stories in Formula 1, as the Thai driver failed to live up to the standards of Max Verstappen during his time with Red Bull, and now finds himself racing towards the back of the pack with Williams. The 26-year-old finished third in his final season in
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The FIA have made serious efforts in recent seasons to make the Formula 1 grid more competitive, and prevent the top teams from creating too much of a gap to the backmarkers, like Mercedes had done in the previous era. A budget cap was introduced in 2021 to limit spending to $145m per season for
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According to reports from the Victoria Government in Australia, the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix is set to host the 2024 season opener, “out of respect for Ramadan”. This wasn’t the only thing that was announced by the government, who also revealed that Formula 1’s already long deal with Melbourne would be extended by a further
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Haas have had the start to the new era of Formula 1 that they would have wanted, having essential sacrificed their 2021 season to focus on developing their car for 2022, where major regulation changes came into play. The team finished eighth overall in the championship standing, ahead of AlphaTauri and Williams, and even reached
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The Singapore Grand Prix came with the rumours that Red Bull and Aston Martin had breached the 2021 cost cap, and with Max Verstappen winning that year’s championship on the final lap of the last race, the legitimacy of the Dutchman’s victory was called into question. It was initially rumoured that Verstappen could have been
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When Mattia Binotto announced his resignation from his role as Ferrari team principal following a disappointing second half of the 2022 season, the team only ever seemed to have one man in mind to replace the Swiss. Christian Horner and Andreas Seidl were loosely linked to the role, however it was heavily rumoured that Alfa
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Michael Masi will be taking on a new venture starting in 2023, with the Aussie having been announced as a new director on the Karting Australia board, along with commercial lawyer Melissa Holzberger. The duo will begin their new rules at the start of January, which is, of course, just a couple of weeks away.
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After much speculation, Mick Schumacher has finally been announced as Mercedes’ reserve driver for 2023, following his departure from Haas at the end of the 2022 season. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff expressed his intent of wanting to bring Schumacher into the Silver Arrows fold, from the moment Nico Hulkenberg was declared as the German’s replacement
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