Valtteri Bottas has no idea what happened to his pace in Baku last weekend after he was out-qualified by Zhou Guanyu for the first time this year. Zhou qualified 14th, one position ahead of the Finn after Bottas had narrowly squeezed into Q2, and the young Chinese driver was also running ahead of Bottas for
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Former Formula 1 driver Martin Brundle does not believe Sir Lewis Hamilton will be forced to miss the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend because of his back troubles. The 37-year-old struggled to get out of his Mercedes on Sunday after he near-unbearable “porpoising” he had experienced throughout the weekend in Baku, and the bouncing caused
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Former Red Bull driver Mark Webber suggests that Alpine’s Fernando Alonso was rather fortunate to escape punishment for holding up Williams’ Alex Albon in qualifying in Baku The drivers had to hurry out for their final runs of Q1 on Saturday after Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll caused a red flag by crashing with two-and-a-half minutes
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AlphaTauri have leaned into the meme around Pierre Gasly’s social media activity by uploading a hilarious Instagram reel. In the last couple of years, Formula 1 fans have noticed that Gasly tends to leave a like on, not just F1 posts and posts that pertain to him, but all sorts of weird, wacky and wonderful
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Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz has reiterated that “porpoising” is beginning to pose a real threat to the drivers’ help, and has again urged the FIA to make changes to the regulations. The new technical regulations in Formula 1 saw the return of ground effect aerodynamics and, while it was inevitable that the gaps between the quickest
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Former Formula 1 driver John Watson has told Sir Lewis Hamilton to spend “more time in the gym” after he suffered intense back pain during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Mercedes have been struggling to get a handle on “porpoising” this year amid the changes to the technical regulations that have brought in ground effect aerodynamics
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George Russell is very much turning any doubters into believers this year after some terrific performance in the early going of the 2022 season with Mercedes. Russell was signed from Williams this season after scoring four points finishes and a podium in 2021, and he also stood in for Sir Lewis Hamilton in Sakhir in
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Ferrari are set to abandon their immediate plans to introduce an ERS upgrade to the F1-75, and will switch their attention to improving the reliability of the car, according to reports. Having started on pole, Charles Leclerc was leading after a smart stop under a Virtual Safety Car got him back ahead of Sergio Perez
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It was an Azerbaijan Grand Prix to forget for Kevin Magnussen, after the Dane was forced to retire from the GP with a suspected power unit failure. Out of the five drivers to retire from the race, four were powered by Ferrari PUs; though not all DNFs appeared to be PU related. Magnussen’s, however, most
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Sir Lewis Hamilton was “praying” for the end of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as he pulled through the pain barrier to finish fourth. Mercedes’ bouncing was the worst it has been all year so far down the long straights of the Baku City Circuit, and Hamilton was suffering from intense back pain throughout the afternoon.
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