This weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix will perhaps be the most special of Lewis Hamilton’s career, as in the build-up to the weekend at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, the seven-time World Champion was awarded with honorary Brazilian citizenship. Hamilton has loved the country of Brazil for almost his entire life, with the British driver’s hero,
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McLaren made the bold choice earlier in the season to replace F1 veteran Daniel Ricciardo, who has underwhelmed during his time with the team, with a fellow Australian, young Oscar Piastri. The rookie has won both the Formula 3 and Formula 2 titles in 2020 and 2021, but failed to secure a seat in Formula
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Daniel Ricciardo has not had the career at McLaren that he would have wanted, generally struggling to match his teammate for pace and finding himself nearer the back of the grid than the front in the majority of races. The Australian spent the United States Grand Prix keeping backmarker Nicholas Latifi company, saying after the
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Penalty points can be accumulated a number of ways in Formula One, usually related to causing an accident on track or breaking some sort of regulation, like ignoring yellow flags. Should a driver accumulate twelve penalty points then they will be handed a race ban for a single Grand Prix, forcing them to watch on
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McLaren have seen a significant gap in points between their two drivers this year, with Lando Norris outscoring his teammate Daniel Ricciardo at almost every race in 2022. With this in mind the team have decided to shake things up for 2023, bringing in young Australian Oscar Piastri to replace his older countryman, who’s contract
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Sergio Pérez has enjoyed a very strong end of the season, with the Red Bull driver having demonstrated the pace that saw him be considered Max Verstappen’s biggest challenger for the 2022 Drivers’ Championship. The 32-year-old started the season brilliantly, after excellently bouncing back from a DNF at the season opener following a reliability issue.
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2022 has certainly not seen a title fight reminiscent of Max Verstappen’s titanic battle with Lewis Hamilton last season, with his mediocre duel with Charles Leclerc this year having been undeniably underwhelming. Verstappen’s complete domination has made for an uneventful season, one which has seen the Dutchman break the record for most wins in a
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With Red Bull’s budget cap scandal finally having concluded, some of the team’s hierarchy have started to talk more openly on the matter, whilst also reacting to comments made by others during the process. Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has arguably reacted to the $2.2 million breach, which would’ve been just $430,000 had the
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Daniel Ricciardo’s time as a Formula 1 driver is perhaps on the verge of ending, with the outgoing McLaren driver just two races away from his 2023 sabbatical. It is no shock that Ricciardo is set for a year on the side-lines, after two woeful seasons at the Woking-based team. His victory at the 2021
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With both Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo’s F1 careers set to end after the final two races of the season, it’s easy to forget that Nicholas Latifi will also be departing the championship after Abu Dhabi. Latifi’s three-year spell at the Grove-based side has been somewhat underwhelming, with the 2019 Formula 2 runner-up having largely
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