Ferrari have signed a new aerodynamicist from Mercedes as they look to press home their advantage in 2022. New technical regulations have been introduced this year, meaning that designers and engineers have had to adopt an entirely new philosophy to extract maximum performance from the cars. The Scuderia spent much of last year developing for
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Double Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen believes that Sir Lewis Hamilton will be struggling to deal with Mercedes’ lack of pace thus far in 2022. Mercedes have made a dire start to the 2022 season. Hamilton and team-mate George Russell have been somewhat fortuitous to pick up a podium a piece, and victories earned
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has warned that his team will have “very little time” to test any new parts that they might bring to the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The race in Imola this weekend is Formula 1’s first voyage into Europe this season, meaning that it is about the time the
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Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc does not feel that the “porpoising” the team have been experiencing has been at all detrimental to the performance of his F1-75. New technical regulations were introduced this season in a move that saw the return of ground effect aerodynamics and, as such, a few largely unprecedented issues have surfaced. One
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Williams head of vehicle performance, Dave Robson, is confident that the team have managed to find an optimal window for their 2022 car, but would like to uncover a definitive solution to “porpoising.” Williams’ adaptation to the new technical regulations has been difficult thus far in 2022. A combination of accidents for Nicholas Latifi and
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FIA head of single-seaters technical matters, Nikolas Tombazis, has declared that engine performance up and down the grid is relatively uniform after the introduction of the freeze. The engine freeze is one of many alterations made to the technical regulations this season, with an E10 fuel blend – made up of 90 percent fossil fuels
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has praised the “super job” that Haas have done with their 2022 car, and sees battling them as a fascinating learning curve. On lap time, Mercedes were the quickest team last season, and Haas were an astonishing 3.38% adrift of them on average. Contextualising that, the other nine teams were
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Mick Schumacher can see a points finish on the horizon after an impressive showing at the 2022 Australian Grand Prix. For the first time this season, the young German managed to out-qualify experienced team-mate Kevin Magnussen as neither Haas car managed to make it into the third and final qualifying session. The 23-year-old’s race was
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George Russell has revealed that his Mercedes team are not planning to bring upgrades to the car at the next race in Imola. The Silver Arrows have struggled for form since the turn of the new technical regulations this season, suffering from “porpoising,” adverse handling in the corners and seemingly a power deficit to Ferrari
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Racing driver Tom Coronel believes that Ferrari and Red Bull’s title aspirations are contingent on which team is able to minimise the weight of their car this year. As the technical regulations radically changed to facilitate the return of ground effect aerodynamics, the weight of the cars naturally increased, so the limit was raised to
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