The last few years have not been easy for Ferrari, and while they initially brought criticism upon themselves this season, that has now turned into savage mockery. This season started off so well for the team in red; they took their first win and one-two since 2019 in Bahrain in the opening round of 2022,
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Mattia Binotto thinks that Red Bull could be exceeding the budget cap, and that the FIA aren’t monitoring the matter closely enough. Ferrari and Red Bull started the 2022 campaign fairly evenly matched, but the latter team have now pulled ahead in terms of both points and pace. That was abundantly clear to see at
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Max Verstappen’s Red Bull engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, had a hilarious response to his driver when he noted that there were no yellow flags during practice for the Belgian Grand Prix. Red Bull were not pleased when Verstappen was given a five-second penalty in Qatar last season after traversing a yellow flag, but going flat-out anyway.
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Red Bull Racing chief advisor Dr Helmut Marko believes that Max Verstappen will retain his World Drivers’ Championship with “two or three” more wins, which could realistically see the Dutchman win the championship at the first fly-away race following the European races. After claiming his ninth victory of the season at the Belgian Grand Prix,
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After a string of good performances, it was back to reality for the Mercedes F1 Team at the Belgian Grand Prix, after their podium run came to a disappointing end, with Sir Lewis Hamilton also enduring his first DNF of the season. The weekend went from bad to worse for the Silver Arrows, after Hamilton qualified 1.8
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Pierre Gasly is set to replace Fernando Alonso at Alpine at the end of the year, after senior Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko said the team would be willing to release him from his contract. Gasly made his Formula 1 debut with Red Bull’s sister team, Scuderia Toro Rosso as it was then called,
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Fernando Alonso has scaled back his criticism of Sir Lewis Hamilton after initially being furious with the Brit for their crash at the Belgian Grand Prix. The two veterans came together at the start of the race in Spa when Hamilton tried to pass the Spaniard around the outside. The collision caused the Mercedes driver
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Former Formula 1 driver, Martin Brundle, believes that Daniel Riccirdo’s departure from Red Bull in 2018 was a poor choice. The Australian had won seven races with the Austrian side, but was being out-performed by Max Verstappen, and it was clear that the Dutchman was the driver Red Bull wanted to prioritise going forward. The
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Alpine are reportedly prepared to let Oscar Piastri leave for McLaren, and they are said to have identified AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly as a strong possibility to partner Esteban Ocon next year. At the start of August, Piastri denied Alpine’s announcement that he has been promoted to the race seat in place of Fernando Alonso, who
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Christian Horner has joked that the success Red Bull are enjoying is largely thanks to Toto Wolff. After spending last season very much evenly matched with Mercedes, Red Bull have pulled away this year, with their 2022 car much faster than their rivals’. Some felt that was the case in the first half of the
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