New Mercedes signing George Russell has emphasised that he and new team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton must prioritise working together over battling each other on track. Russell moved to the Constructors’ Champions to replace the outgoing Valtteri Bottas, who moved to Alfa Romeo for 2022. The 23-year-old claimed his first Williams points at the Hungarian Grand
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Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has not ruled out the possibility of teams finding loopholes in the 2022 regulations, but maintains he is “looking forward” to the new era of the sport. Domenicali was team principal at Ferrari in 2009 during a previous rule change, and counterpart Ross Brawn led his team to championship victory
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff is confident that Ferrari will cause disruption at the pointy end of the F1 grid in 2022, placing them among the teams that will be strong next year. The eight-time Constructors’ Champions ended the 2021 season 290 points clear of Ferrari, who have endured a difficult last couple of years.
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto is excited by the prospect of the team’s 2022 power unit, which is reported to have overcome the 20 horsepower drop that will come with the new engines. Ferrari slumped to sixth in the Constructors’ Championship in the 2020 season, partly owing to an engine that was painfully down on
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Red Bull have ended up in court following the culmination of the controversial 2021 Formula 1 season, but it is not in a legal battle with Mercedes. Instead, they are fighting to keep one of their former employees away from Aston Martin, at least temporarily. Former Red Bull chief aerodynamicist Dan Fallows was offered a
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Ferrari have managed to overcome the power drop that all power unit manufacturers will face in 2022 as a result of a switch to a new fuel composition, according to reports from Italy. There will be an estimated 20 horsepower drop next season, but it has been suggested that Ferrari have managed to find a
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Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has affirmed that while Sir Lewis Hamilton’s engine performance at the 2021 Brazilian Grand Prix was a “unique situation,” he has no interest in questioning the legality of it. Hamilton qualified for the Brazilian Sprint in first place, but thanks to a rear-wing irregularity, the Mercedes driver was disqualified,
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Alfa Romeo driver Valtteri Bottas does not believe that the 2022 Formula 1 car will be all that different from the current generation. The Finn departed serial Constructors’ Champions Mercedes following five years with the team, and will now join partner young Chinese driver Guanyu Zhou – making for an all-new line-up at Alfa Romeo
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McLaren’s Lando Norris thinks that the new Formula 1 cars in 2022 will be vastly different to 2021, and that every driver will have to adapt and improvise to succeed under the new regulations. Following five seasons of high levels of downforce on the cars, 2022 will see reduced downforce, 18-inch tyres, and the return
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Honda’s Formula 1 boss Masashi Yamamoto believes that the manufacturer had too much respect for McLaren and vice-versa during their three torrid years in partnership with the team in the turbo-hybrid era of the sport. McLaren managed just two podium finishes in their last two years in partnership with Mercedes in 2013 and 2014, with
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