McLaren have announced the signing of Chelsea Football Club’s Steve Atkins, who will take up the role of chief communications officer at McLaren Racing. Atkins has played a key role in the Blues chaotic summer following an ownership takeover by Todd Boehly, as the club’s official spokesperson, which saw some of Europe’s biggest stars sign for the current
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Nyck de Vries has been unable to complete any simulator work ahead of next weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix. The Dutchman will be in Singapore as a standby in case Alex Albon has not yet fully recovered from his appendix surgery. De Vries was trying to get back to Grove to do some simulator running, but
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Williams have confirmed that Nicholas Latifi will be leaving the team at the end of the 2022 season. The Canadian finished second in the 2019 Formula 2 Championship to Nyck de Vries, and he got a move to the Williams team for the 2020 season alongside George Russell. Neither he nor his British team-mate scored
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George Russell has had the opportunity to learn a lot from Sir Lewis Hamilton during their first season together at Mercedes. The 24-year-old was signed to the German side from Williams this year, three seasons after he made his Formula 1 debut with the British side. He out-qualified Robert Kubica at every race after the
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It seems like a lifetime ago when Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez was being tipped as a championship contender against team-mate Max Verstappen; however, fast forward four months and the Mexican couldn’t be any further from his dominant team-mate. Pérez started the season magnificently and even claimed a famous victory at the Monaco Grand Prix. Monaco
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Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, feels that Alpine should be approaching Daniel Ricciardo to bring him back to the team next year. Horner and Ricciardo worked together between 2014 and 2018 at Red Bull, as the Australian won seven races. Max Verstappen emerged in 2015, and was promoted to the Austrian side from Toro
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AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost has called for Yuki Tsunoda to “get under control his emotions”, after a recent run of avoidable incidents. Tost’s comments came prior to the team announcing that the Japanese driver will be retained for a third season by the Faenza-based team, with Tost believing that “a driver needs at least three
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Retired 2016 Formula 1 World Champion Nico Rosberg thinks McLaren’s new 2023 partnership will “be close”, with the German believing that Lando Norris is driving like a “world champion”. Norris will be joined by rookie Oscar Piastri next season, with the 21-year-old replacing the outgoing Daniel Ricciardo, who has massively underperformed since joining the Woking-based team in
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It would be a big shock if Mercedes reserve driver Nyck de Vries fails to get a seat in 2023, following on from his unbelievable last-minute debut. De Vries will forever remember the recent Italian Grand Prix, after he technically took part in the entire weekend for the first time in his career, albeit not
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Former McLaren employee Marc Priestley believes 2007 F1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen could’ve won more Drivers’ Championships had he “applied himself” like Sir Lewis Hamilton, with the Finn having been far from “complete”. Whilst driving for Ferrari, Raikkonen famously won the 2007 title at the season finale hosted in Brazil, where he beat Hamilton and
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