AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda has revealed that there was a miscommunication with his race engineer during practice for the Italian Grand Prix, which caused him to speed under yellow flags. The Japanese driver collected his eighth penalty point when he was adjudged to have failed to slow sufficiently in a caution zone. That comes a week
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has pledged his allegiance to the Mercedes team amid speculation around Daniel Ricciardo’s future. The seven-time champion signed with the Silver Arrows in 2013 following six years with McLaren, during which time he earned his first title in 2008. The move looked a strange one given Mercedes’ presence in the midfield while
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Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix was Sebastian Vettel’s last race at Monza as a Formula 1 driver, with the 35-year-old set to retire from the sport at the end of the season. The ‘Temple of Speed’ will always hold a special place in the four-time World Champion’s heart, with Monza being the venue where he claimed
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Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolff, believes that Nyck de Vries has gone some way towards earning himself a seat in Formula 1 after an impressive qualifying and race performance in Monza. The Dutchman won the Formula 2 title in 2019, beating Nicholas Latifi to the crown, but there were no seats available in the pinnacle
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Williams driver, Nyck de Vries, believes that waiving the rules to allow Colton Herta into Formula 1 would set a dangerous precedent. AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly has been strongly linked with the Alpine seat left vacant by Fernando Alonso after reserve driver, Oscar Piastri, agreed to join McLaren next year. The French team would need to
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Nyck de Vries capped off a fine debut Formula 1 weekend with a ninth-placed finish at the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday. The Dutchman had initially contested first practice with the Aston Martin team on Friday, and that, as far as he knew, was the end of his weekend’s programme. He was up in the
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Former Formula 1 driver, Karun Chandhok, has affirmed that we have not witnessed the “real” Daniel Ricciardo since he joined McLaren. The Australian left Renault after a two-year stint with the French side, and joined McLaren at the beginning of the 2021 campaign. His partnership with Lando Norris was expected to light up the grid
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It was one of those days for Alpine at the Italian Grand Prix as neither Fernando Alonso nor Esteban Ocon scored points. Alonso started up in sixth after engine penalties were handed out to Verstappen, Sergio Perez, Carlos Sainz and Sir Lewis Hamilton, while Ocon’s penalty saw him go from 14th. Try as he might,
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Fans were left feeling short-changed after an anti-climactic end to the 2022 Italian Grand Prix on Sunday. Charles Leclerc started on pole in front of the adoring Ferrari faithful in Monza, while Max Verstappen started the race seventh after taking an engine penalty. The Dutchman took but a handful of laps to make it up
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Yet more harassment was seen at the Italian Grand Prix, with a number of Ferrari fans caught harassing spectators who were wearing Red Bull hats. Misbehaviour by the side of the racetrack, sadly, has been almost as prominent as the events on circuit so far in 2022, after multiple instances of misconduct. Two men were
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