Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer has sensationally called for the FIA to “look” into allowing teams a “third car”, following Esteban Ocon’s absence from qualifying at the Miami Grand Prix. Ocon crashed heavily during FP3 in Miami, leaving his team with insufficient time to fix the Frenchman’s cracked chassis. The Alpine driver was lucky to
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Aston Martin’s chief technical officer, Andy Green, has denied any notion that his team stole intellectual property from Red Bull to inform the current design of their AMR22. Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll have managed just six points between them in 2022 after a troubling opening five rounds of the year, and there were rumours
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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko has confirmed that he can prove data from his team was taken by Aston Martin, but he cannot confirm that it was used as part of their new sidepod design. In a bid to improve their fortunes, Aston Martin have given both Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll a B-spec
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Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz is adamant that a solution must be found to avoid injuring the drivers as a result of the pain he has been experiencing due to the turbulence caused by the new cars. This year, ground effect aerodynamics have made a return under the new technical regulations, and it has led to the
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An FIA parody account on Twitter caught a few fans out by “announcing” that Aston Martin had been “permanently banned” due to their new design. Aston Martin arrived at the Spanish Grand Prix with fresh upgrades on the car, but it was hard not to notice that they looked very similar to those of Red
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The FIA have found that the updated Aston Martin car has not breached any regulations after suspicions that it might have been a direct copy of Red Bull’s 2022 car. The Silverstone-based team headed to the Spanish Grand Prix with striking sidepods that looked uncannily similar to the ones that have guided Max Verstappen to
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horne has no problem with engineers going to other teams and giving them the expertise they have acquired at the Milton Keynes factory, but warns that he will not “accept” any transfer of intellectual property. Aston Martin showed up to the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend with sidepods that looked
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Mercedes driver George Russell has waned of the possibility that the “porpoising” drivers are experiencing could eventually have a serious detrimental impact on their health. The new technical regulations in F1 have seen the re-introduction of ground effect aerodynamics, and the subsequent lower ride height of the cars has caused heavy contract with the track
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Red Bull have arrived at the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend with upgrades that have taken another 5kg off their car, according to Dutch journalist Erik van Haren. The Austrian outfit implemented changes in Imola that were also thought to have taken up to 5kg off the RB18, and the subsequent pace increase enabled Max
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff heads to the Spanish Grand Prix full of hope that his team can overturn their deficit to Red Bull and Ferrari. The Silver Arrows have struggled under the new technical regulations this season, and have managed a best finish of third through Sir Lewis Hamilton in Bahrain, and George Russell
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