The FIA confirmed on Friday that Red Bull will be fined $7m and have their aerodynamic testing time cut by 10% for 2023 as punishment for breaching the 2021 budget cap. The energy drink-owned team were adjudged to have overspend the $145m budget cap by around $2m, with the team suggesting that this was spent
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Times are certainly tough for the FIA currently, with the governing body having to embarrassingly revert a penalty they awarded to Fernando Alonso at the United States Grand Prix last weekend, after being seemingly corrected by the Oxford Dictionary. Alonso, who crossed the line in seventh at the Circuit of the Americas last weekend, was awarded a
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Daniel Ricciardo has been the subject of a lot of speculation in recent months, with his future being up in the air since it was announced that McLaren would replace him with Oscar Piastri for 2023. The Australian was a rumoured target for Alpine, Williams and Haas however it is now all but confirmed that
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Lewis Hamilton will start the Mexican Grand Prix from arguably the best position, after claiming third for Sunday’s race. Mercedes have arguably looked the strongest throughout the weekend so far and actually topped FP2 and FP3 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit; however, neither Hamilton nor George Russell could claim the team’s second pole of
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If the statistics regarding the Mexican Grand Prix are anything to go by, then Mercedes might be on-track to claim their first victory of the season; the question is, though, will it be George Russell, or Lewis Hamilton? Mercedes have looked strong all weekend at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit, and came within a whisker
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Mercedes deployed a temporary driver pairing of Lewis Hamilton and Nyck de Vries in practice on Friday, looking to fulfil their young driver requirement for the year, giving the AlphaTauri bound Dutchman a final run out in the W13. Hamilton was the fastest man on track out of the Pirelli tyre test runners in FP2
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Away from Max Verstappen, who has stormed his way to a second world championship, the drivers’ championship standings remain close between many drivers coming into the final three rounds of the season. This is the case at Mercedes with Lewis Hamilton and George Russell being separated by only 20 points, with the latter having the
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Mick Schumacher is in the fight of his life to keep his seat at Haas for 2023, with the American team ready to look elsewhere for Kevin Magnussen’s partner. The German has been told he needs to score points between now and the end of the season if he is to have any chance of
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George Russell has set his sights on a podium following Mercedes best Friday practice sessions of the year. It was another disrupted Friday, similar to Austin last time out, with FP1 being used by some teams to fulfil their young driver obligations, and FP2 being used as a Pirelli tyre test. Russell, who was replaced
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner is taking his side’s ‘Cashgate’ penalty “on the chin”, despite believing that the Austrians have been slapped with a “draconian” punishment. Following on from the FIA’s announcement the day after Max Verstappen claimed his second World Championship that Red Bull had exceeded the 2021 budget cap, it was declared by
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