Alpine’s reliability issues were nearly their undoing in 2022, as the team struggled to hold off McLaren to keep fourth place in the constructors’ championship. Esteban Ocon was forced to retire from two races over the course of the season, while Fernando Alonso’s shocking six DNFs saw the Spaniard grow frustrated with his team, even
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Former Formula 1 driver Nikita Mazepin is set to make his international racing return in February, with the Russian driver set to compete in the 2023 Asian Le Mans Series. According to Endurance-Info, the former Haas driver will race for Racing 99, a new entrant for next year’s championship. As it stands, he is set
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It would come as absolutely no shock that Aston Martin found four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel incredibly “motivational” during his two-year spell with the side, as they attempted to move to the front of the midfield. Vettel’s move to Aston Martin for the 2021 season certainly marked the end of his time as a frontrunning driver, something
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Ferrari will be parting ways with Mattia Binotto at the turn of the calendar year, after it was confirmed by the team earlier this month that the Swiss had handed in his resignation. The Scuderia had found themselves under pressure from fans to sack Binotto following a below par second half of the 2022 season.
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Despite clearly being a confident individual, George Russell would never have expected to walk into Mercedes and beat seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton in his debut season. The former Williams driver flew out the blocks in 2022 with a struggling Mercedes, picking up a flurry of podium finishes and consistently finishing in the top five.
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Ferrari were forced to frantically hunt for a new team principal in recent weeks, after Mattia Binotto announced his resignation from the Scuderia, only days after the team had publicly defended his position with the team. Andreas Seidl and Christian Horner of McLaren and Red Bull respectively had both reportedly rejected the opportunity to move
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Since Ferrari announced that they had accepted the resignation of team principal Mattia Binotto earlier this month, many names had been linked to filling the vacant position at the Scuderia. Christian Horner, Ross Brawn and Andreas Seidl were all reportedly on Ferrari’s radar, with chairman John Elkann reportedly favouring a high-profile appointment to replace Binotto.
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Mercedes have spent the last five years operating with a clear number one and number two driver, with Lewis Hamilton being the priority of their driver pairing. Valtteri Bottas was unfortunately not the calibre of driver able to beat the 37-year-old over the course of a whole season, leading Mercedes to deploy the Finn in
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Coming into 2022, Mercedes had won eight constructors’ championships in a row and with good reason. The Silver Arrows have consistently churned out title winning cars since the major regulation changes in 2014, often baffling fans with their ever-impressive feats of engineering. The W11 in 2020 is commonly known amongst fans as one of the
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The annual FIA prize-giving gala is no stranger to some bizarre antics from drivers and other members of the F1 community. Kimi Raikkonen is somebody who could tell you this himself, having hilariously gone on stage drunk at the 2018 gala. Whilst it is no shock to see the drivers enjoying themselves to the extreme
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