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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Markus Duesmann, CEO of Audi, has affirmed that he wants a German driver in the team when the car-maker enters Formula 1 in 2026. Audi and Porsche, subsidiaries of Volkswagen, have both made it clear that they want to be a part of the pinnacle of motorsport when the new technical regulations come into play.
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Alpine’s Fernando Alonso has indicated that an over-emphasis from the team on reserve driver Oscar Piastri is ultimately what led to contract negotiations breaking down. The Spaniard returned to the pinnacle of motorsport last season with the team that helped him win two world championships in 2005 and 2006, having left McLaren at the end
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Max Verstappen inadvertently sabotaged Charles Leclerc’s Belgian GP when he ripped off a visor tear-off at the start. The two title rivals both started the race in Spa towards the back of the field after taking grid penalties. Verstappen made his way through the field with ease, taking just eight laps to get into the
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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc has noticed that Sir Lewis Hamilton’s rivalry with Max Verstappen’s was different to his own. Verstappen and Hamilton took an astonishing 18 wins between them in 2021 as the Dutchman dramatically beat his rival to the crown on the very last lap of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. During the campaign, they
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Sebastian Vettel had an excellent Belgian Grand Prix, after adding four points to the Aston Martin F1 Team’s constructors’ tally after finishing eighth at Spa-Francorchamps. Despite qualifying P16, Vettel started the race from P10 following a plethora of grid penalties for other drivers. The four-time World Champion made the most of the elevated starting position and
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