Plenty of work has been going on at Brackley in recent weeks to solve the endemic problem running through the Mercedes team of late. The German side have had all hands on deck since the beginning of the season trying to eradicate “porpoising” and bouncing which, as well as costing them bags of performance, have
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Haas team principal Guenther Steiner is pleased to see the back of the budget cap saga after it was raised by 3.1 percent. The budget was initially set at $140 million for the season for every team, and has to be spread out between damage repairs, car development, freight travel and more – drivers’ salaries
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen believes that the stewards were too harsh on track limits in Austria up and down the racing ladder after multiple penalties and lap time deletions were handed out. Several drivers in Formula 2 and Formula 3 had their lap times taken off them in the support races, before a series of
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Mercedes driver George Russell does not believe he was completely at fault for the incident that put Sergio Perez out of the race in Austria, and wants there to be more consistency from the stewards. Even before the Austrian Grand Prix weekend had started, controversy was brewing in the paddock following Fernando Alonso’s bemusement at
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Sir Lewis Hamilton and George Russell are set to be handed a major boost as Mercedes are understood to be on course to introduce a major power unit upgrade after the summer break. Specifically, Mercedes will introduce their “Phase Three” power unit at the Belgian Grand Prix in late August. This will include upgraded hybrid
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Carlos Sainz has stressed the silver lining of Ferrari’s 2022 power unit, noting that although it has been relatively unreliable, it is one of the more powerful packages on the grid. The Scuderia have suffered several reliability-induced retirements so far this season, costing both Sainz and team-mate Charles Leclerc much-needed points in their battle with
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The Haas F1 Team have well and truly found their mojo in 2022, after the team enjoyed their strongest weekend since 2018. Mick Schumacher’s sixth-place finish, and Kevin Magnussen’s eighth-place finish at the Austrian Grand Prix, was the American team’s most successful weekend since the same event in 2018. Both Haas drivers have now finished
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The ongoing porpoising saga looks set to take centre stage over the summer, after the FIA announced that the new technical directive (TD) won’t be introduced until the Belgian Grand Prix. It was initially announced at the Canadian Grand Prix that the FIA would introduce a system to measure each team’s volume of porpoising, with those who go beyond
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Following on from their third and fourth place finishes at the recent Austrian Grand Prix, the Mercedes F1 Team have revealed the reason as to why George Russell was so much slower than Sir Lewis Hamilton during the race at the Red Bull Ring. Mercedes recovered incredibly in Austria, after both Hamilton and Russell crashed
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Former Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has indicated that it is time for an experienced head to be placed in charge of Formula 1 races, and there would be no one better, in his mind, than Herbie Blash. Blash was recruited to the FIA by Ecclestone following the pair’s tenure together at Brabham, and he
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