Formula 1 has confirmed that it will hold six sprint races in 2023, doubling the number of those events from this and last season. Sprint races were introduced in 2021, and it sees qualifying take place on Friday, before a 100-kilometre dash takes place on Saturday. Points were awarded to the top three finishers, and
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Sir Lewis Hamilton heads into this weekend’s returning Singapore Grand Prix hoping that his car will “feel like Budapest and Zandvoort”, in order to challenge the frontrunners. The seven-time World Champion and team-mate George Russell were both strong at the Hungarian and Dutch Grand Prix, largely thanks to high downforce circuits suiting the ‘diva’ that
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Having returned to Formula 1 in 2017 as the championship’s managing director, the incredibly popular Ross Brawn has announced that it’s finally time to “step back” from the series. The 67-year-old who is most famous for being Ferrari’s boss during Michael Schumacher’s dominant years, and also for founding Brawn GP, believes now is the time to
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Chairman of the Circuit of the Americas, Bobby Epstein, believes that the door to Formula 1 has not completely closed on Colton Herta. The young American has won four races since he joined IndyCar proper in 2018 with Harding, who have since adopted their Andretti guise. Herta has claimed four race wins in as many
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McLaren have teamed up with OKX to produce a special edition livery that will be used in the next two races in Singapore and Japan. OKX are a crypto currency that have teamed up with Daniel Ricciardo in recent months to make an advertisement featuring the Australian and a honey badger. Ricciardo and Lando Norris
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2022 is a year that Mercedes can’t wait to see the back of, with the new aerodynamic era having started in arguably the worst way possible for the Germans. Despite having spent so much of 2021 developing their car for this season, Mercedes have arguably made a mess of the new aerodynamic regulations, with their
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Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel has questioned just how seriously Formula 1 is taking its push to go carbon neutral by 2030. The pinnacle of motorsport switched to turbo hybrid V6 engines in 2014, decreasing the engine’s dependence on fossil fuels. A synthetic fuel is set to come into play by the year 2036, and this
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Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu has opened up on the awful racist abuse he has had to endure in recent years, and how Sir Lewis Hamilton is helping him overcome it. In a high-profile incident, Hamilton was confronted by a group of racist fans during pre-season testing ahead of the 2008 season – the year he
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Alfa Romeo have confirmed that Zhou Guanyu will be remaining with the team next season. The Chinese rookie finished third in the Formula 2 Championship last year, and he flew the Alpine nest to join Alfa Romeo. The 23-year-old signed alongside Valtteri Bottas, who had spent the previous five years racing with Mercedes, winning five
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2022 has ended up being a massively underwhelming season for Ferrari, especially given the fact they won two of the opening three races of the season. Following Charles Leclerc’s second victory of the season at the Australian Grand Prix, it looked to all the world that the Maranello-based team were the side to beat this
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