Alex Albon believes that the new measures being implemented in Formula 1 could help his Williams team climb up the order as they seek to lift themselves off the bottom of the standings. Albon has scored points on two occasions in 2022, and his three points are the only ones the Grove-based side have managed
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Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack has called for a decision to be made as soon as possible on the potential 2023 regulation changes. “Porpoising” and bouncing has been a key theme of the 2022 season after ground effect aerodynamics were reintroduced along with the new technical regulations. The phenomenon can be caused one of
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Whilst the summer break is now in full flow, the championship looks set to take a new twist once the season resumes at the Belgian Grand Prix, as the new Technical Directive (TD) will finally be introduced. Whilst porpoising has featured less as of late, it’s still a concern for some teams in the paddock, most notably
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Pierre Gasly felt hard done by at the Hungarian Grand Prix as he walked away from the race with no points for the fifth weekend running. Gasly was eliminated in the first qualifying session in Budapest, but not before he had a lap time deleted for running off the racetrack, which he did not agree
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The Mercedes F1 Team are truly on their way back to the top, after an excellent double-podium at the Hungarian Grand Prix made it back-to-back two-three finishes for the German team. Over recent rounds, Mercedes have begun to close the gap to Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Ferrari, with the latter only 30 points ahead
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Red Bull have signed engineer Phil Prew from Mercedes to help inform their work on power units from the 2026 season. Prew has previously worked at McLaren, where he was an understudy to Adrian Newey, before going on to become a race engineer in 2001, working with the likes of Sir Lewis Hamilton, Sergio Perez
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The Aston Martin F1 Team are set to be copied by every team on the grid, after introducing an innovative new rear-wing at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll had rear-wings that resembled the 2021 cars, which had considerably higher downforce than the current generation. Both drivers had additions to their endplates,
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Former race director Michael Masi reportedly signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) after his removal as race director by the FIA. Masi was the centre of controversy at last season’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix when he made a bizarre call to allow a limited number of lapped runners to pass the Safety Car ahead of the
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Max Verstappen has grown frustrated at the stewards after the recent increase in track limits penalties. Verstappen was on the verge of a penalty in Austria a few weeks ago after team-mate Sergio Perez was sent down to 13th for cutting Turn Eight. Mick Schumacher lost a qualifying lap of his own in France last weekend
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Porpoising is once again a hot topic in the paddock, as a number of teams have called for the FIA to drop a set of new regulations for 2023 which are targeted at eliminating porpoising. The bouncing phenomenon has caused chaos for some, and absolutely nothing for others, with the latter being the ones who are rallying
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