As expected, Oscar Piastri has been announced as Lando Norris’ team-mate at the McLaren F1 Team next season, as the young Australian’s situation with Alpine was finally resolved. It was announced towards the end of the week by the FIA that their Contract Recognition Board (CRB) had come to the decision that the 2021 F2 World Champion
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Daniel Ricciardo’s exit from the McLaren F1 Team can’t come soon enough, as the 33-year-old faced an embarrassing Q1 exit from qualifying at the Dutch Grand Prix. The Australian will start Sunday’s race from P17, whereas his team-mate, Lando Norris, starts from seventh. Ricciardo’s qualifying summed up his 2022 season: poor. The Aussie looked good on Friday
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Red Bull have confirmed that Colton Herta is set to join Scuderia AlphaTauri next year, with Pierre Gasly to move to Alpine. The IndyCar driver has been tipped for a move to Formula 1 in recent months, with McLaren emerging as his most likely destination. However, the Woking-based team recently announced Oscar Piastri as Daniel
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Red Bull and Scuderia AlphaTauri have been accused of cheating to help Max Verstappen win the 2022 Dutch Grand Prix. The Dutchman had lost the lead of the race after starting from pole position, but a DNF for Yuki Tsuonda brought out a Virtual Safety Car (VSC) which allowed Verstappen to get a cheap pit-stop.
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has apologised to his Mercedes team for the way he spoke to them in the closing stages of the Dutch Grand Prix. Hamilton and George Russell had both cleared the Red Bull of Sergio Perez in the pits, as well as the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz following a botched pit stop. They
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Mercedes driver George Russell has reacted to his near-miss with Sir Lewis Hamilton in the dying laps of the race at Zandvoort. Russell was on a set of superior tyres to his Mercedes team-mate, as he decided to make a pit-stop under the later Safety Car, while Hamilton stayed out. The seven-time world champion was
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Red Bull’s integrity was called into question after a bizarre Virtual Safety Car caused by AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda at the Dutch Grand Prix. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was trailing Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by a comfortable margin after they had both made their first stop, and Tsunoda stopped on track immediately after his stop. He reported
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Ferrari team principal, Mattia Binotto, conceded that a “very, very, late call” was the reason for Carlos Sainz’s lengthy pit stop at the Dutch Grand Prix. The Spaniard had missed out on pole by less than a tenth of a second to Max Verstappen, with Charles Leclerc sandwiched in between them. The Spaniard held onto
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Sir Lewis Hamilton was left seething at the 2022 Dutch Grand Prix, after Mercedes team-mate George Russell opted to pit for a fresh set of Soft tyres during the late Safety Car. The 24-year-old was running in P2 at the time, but he was wary that Max Verstappen, who had just pitted for new rubber,
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It was not an easy day for Carlos Sainz at the 2022 Dutch Grand Prix as yet more mistakes from Ferrari cost him points. The Spaniard started third behind Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc, and there was contact on his right rear with Sir Lewis Hamilton – the pair escaped unscathed. The left rear was
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