Daniel Ricciardo is willing to take a one-year sabbatical to wait for the right opportunity to come along on the Formula 1 grid. Ricciardo is currently without a seat for the 2023 campaign following McLaren’s decision to drop him a year before the expiration of his contract with the team. While he’s likely to have
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Max Verstappen was given a warning, while no investigation was deemed necessary for Nicholas Latifi for respective incidents during Friday practice at the Belgian Grand Prix. During first practice, Verstappen headed out of his garage towards the end of the pit lane, when he stumbled across the Williams of Latifi. The Dutchman had to change
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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc notes that he learned a lot from former team-mate Sebastian Vettel, and the experience with him has shaped the driver is he today. The Monegasque made his Formula 1 debut in 2018 with the Sauber team and, after some mightily impressive performances, he moved up to Ferrari to replace Kimi Raikkonen, who
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Sir Lewis Hamilton was determined to remain in good spirits after a tough day at the office for Mercedes. Hamilton and team-mate George Russell put 23 laps on the board, collectively, as the 24-year-old finished the opening practice session P4, with Hamilton further down in ninth. One second separated the pair, so it was evident
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McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has affirmed that there are no hard feelings between himself and Daniel Ricciardo amid the Australian’s separation from the team. Ricciardo signed for Renault in 2019 from Red Bull having initially not seen enough from McLaren to suggest that they were the better fit for him. Ironically, McLaren surpassed Renault
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Sir Lewis Hamilton was unequivocal in his affirmation that Mercedes’ goal is to win races in the second half of 2022. Mercedes were made to work in the early part of the season when they discovered that they had a car that was not capable of winning races. In fact, the new technical regulations were
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Lando Norris says he doesn’t mind who is new team-mate is next season. The McLaren man is definitely going to have someone new on the other side of the garage with it being announced that Daniel Ricciardo is leaving at the end of the season. It’s widely believed that the Aussie’s compatriot Oscar Piastri will
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Sir Lewis Hamilton was enriched by his trip through Africa as he spent his summer break tapping into the culture of Namibia, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania. The seven-time champion had been on fine form heading into the well-earned August holiday, scoring five consecutive podiums as he took his tally up to six for the season.
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Sebastian Vettel feels McLaren are to blame for Daniel Ricciardo’s struggles with the team, saying they’ve failed to get the best out of him. There was a huge amount of excitement when Ricciardo joined McLaren at the start of the 2021 campaign, but he’s failed to live up to expectations. For the vast majority of
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Fernando Alonso has revealed that he felt as though he was a stop gap for Alpine while they were preparing Oscar Piastri for a drive in Formula 1. The Spaniard returned to F1 with Alpine, the team with whom he won two titles in 2005 and 2006 under their Renault guise, last season. He had
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