George Russell has reiterated that his Mercedes team do not have the performance they would like ahead of the new Formula 1 season, but will endeavour to extract everything he can from the car. Mercedes set 777 laps over the six days of pre-season testing in Barcelona and Sakhir, with Sir Lewis Hamilton leading Russell
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Reigning world champion Max Verstappen believes that a full report into the controversial ending of the 2021 championship will not be needed, but acknowledges that analysing mistakes is important to move forward. Verstappen clinched his first-ever championship at last year’s season finale at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after former race director Michael Masi reneged
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George Russell notes that the sidepod configuration Mercedes introduced ahead of the second pre-season test in Bahrain is “interesting”, but is as yet unsure how it will perform. Mercedes rolled into the second pre-season test in Sakhir with an extremely unorthodox sidepod design, with the traditional wide sidepods being replaced with small cooling inlets in
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Max Verstappen has rubbished Mercedes’ suggestions that they do not have the quickest car this season, agreeing with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz that this have become a regular tactic used by the Silver Arrows. Mercedes completed 777 laps between the first test in Barcelona and the second in Bahrain, locking out the front two positions on
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Charles Leclerc insists that Ferrari are not the strongest team coming out of pre-season, placing that tag on Red Bull ahead of the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. Ferrari managed an impressive 787 laps over the course of testing in Barcelona and Bahrain, and appeared to find a solution to the “porpoising” issue that the teams
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McLaren and Williams have become the first teams this season to break curfew at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, and have each used up an exception to the curfew legislation. As a result of the exceptions given to them, Williams will not be penalised under the regulation introduced in 2010 that gives teams an individual
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Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz maintains that, while it is important for the FIA to learn from the mistakes made in December, Formula 1 needs to “move on” from the controversy of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Sir Lewis Hamilton was denied his eighth world championship on the final lap of the final race of 2021 when
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Former Formula 1 driver Martin Brundle is hopeful that Ferrari and McLaren can join the fight at the pointy end of the sport this year as the new technical regulations denote a potentially more competitive season of racing in 2022. The ground effect has returned in 2022, in addition to other aerodynamic changes that are
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Lando Norris reckons Haas will be a much-improved team this season compared to their dire 2021 campaign following the events of pre-season testing. It has been a difficult period for Haas since 2020. They managed just two points finishes between Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen that year, and the picture was not about to get
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Former Formula 1 driver Christian Danner believes that Haas’ new chassis design can help them return to the midfield fight in 2022. This comes after the significant changes to the technical regulations as the aerodynamics of the cars change to accommodate for a completely new ground effect-based downforce concept. The Banbury-based team entered F1 in
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