The FIA have fined Williams for breaching the 2021 financial regulations after they failed to submit the required documents in time. One of the interesting facets of last season was the regulations which, having been perceived would be identical to 2020 owing to the pandemic, actually changed a lot more than people thought. There were
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has highlighted the “extraordinary inflation” and soaring energy bills as reasons for wanting to increase the budget cap. The budget was set at circa $140 million this season, down $5 million from last year, and this is allocated to development, damage repair, transport of freight and more. There is therefore
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Ferrari team principal Matti Binotto has again urged the FIA to reconsider the budget cap for the 2022 season, affirming that it has resulted in employees being let go. The revised $140 million cap this year, which is reserved for development, damage repair, transport of freight and man hours working on the cars – among
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Four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel has spoken out in disappointment over the recent comments made about his Aston Martin F1 Team by Red Bull. Not for the first time, Aston Martin were accused of copying another team’s design at the recent Spanish Grand Prix. The British team brought several upgrades to the weekend in Spain,
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Sir Lewis Hamilton is targeting the British Grand Prix as the race where he hopes the Silver Arrows can finally begin to challenge Red Bull and Ferrari for victories. Mercedes have been on the back foot for the majority of the season under the new technical regulations, and they have struggled to figure out how
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Mercedes trackside engineer Andrew Shovlin is not altogether optimistic that the Azerbaijan Grand Prix this weekend will yield many more fruits than the Monaco Grand Prix last time out. Having scored a podium through George Russell in Spain, the Silver Arrows struggled in Monaco as they tried to get the car to work around the
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Former Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa has advised McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo to try and put a smile back on his face as he tries to recover from a disappointing start to the 2022 season. Ricciardo has scored points just three times in the last 12 races with the Woking side, and has been out-qualified 21
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has dismissed suggestions that the “porpoising” issue that plagued the Silver Arrows in the early part of the year affected their cars in Monaco. The new technical regulations in 2022 saw a return to ground effect aerodynamics and, as such, lower ride heights were necessitated. The “porpoising” phenomenon that emerged
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AlphaTauri technical director Jody Egginton insists that the 2022 car has a flexible package that lends itself well to upgrades. The Italian side have struggled somewhat to put performances together with the first iteration under the technical regulations, despite making Q3 on four occasions in the opening seven rounds of the year. Three have come
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto does not believe that the team should have been fined 25,000 euros for impeding last weekend in Monaco. Carlos Sainz, according to the stewards, was given “grossly” incorrect information as to the whereabouts of other cars behind him during Friday practice, and he ended up receiving a reprimand for driving
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