After winning three of the last four races, Max Verstappen is virtually in complete control of the 2022 World Championship, however, the Dutchman believed his title defence was over after just three rounds. The start of the season was horrific for the 2021 World Champion, after suffering two reliability-based DNFs in the opening three rounds
MoreMartin Brundle has no doubt about Sir Lewis Hamilton’s motivation after Mercedes’ rocky start to the 2022 season. As new technical regulations came into force in Formula 1 this year, they gave way to a paradigm shift in the pinnacle of motorsport, as Mercedes’ dominance has seemingly come to an end. The Silver Arrows have
MoreRed Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko predicts that Mercedes may be able to get to the bottom of the issues that have plagued them in the early going of 2022, but maintains that he prefers a championship battle with Ferrari. Mercedes and Red Bull spent 2021 battling for title glory while Ferrari, a far cry
MoreFormer Formula 1 driver Anthony Davidson reckons that Charles Leclerc still has the 2019 Austrian Grand Prix on his mind amid what could be a thrilling title battle between himself and Max Verstappen this season. Verstappen and Leclerc butted heads before their Formula 1 careers even began when they battled it out for a karting
MoreFollowing a controversial, tumultuous, scary and exhausting weekend in Jeddah, Sir Lewis Hamilton is relieved to be going home. Missile attacks marred the opening day of the weekend at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, with the drivers eventually coming to the decision to race amid a GPDA statement that they were satisfied that everyone in
MoreMcLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo has revealed that his team have a more intimate knowledge of the problems that affected them during last weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, but reiterates that the few days since the season-opener will not have given them sufficient time to fix them. Ricciardo found himself out in the first phase of qualifying last
MoreA former Red Bull engineer has brilliantly memed his old team after their devastating double retirement at last weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Having qualified second and fourth respectively, Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez looked set to finish in those positions while the Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was in the lead. However, a series of calamities would
MoreMax Verstappen has joked that his irritable messages over the radio to his team at the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix did not reach the peak that some of his previous frustrations have. Verstappen was involved in a thrilling battle with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc during the Bahrain Grand Prix last weekend as he attempted to use
MoreMercedes trackside engineer Andrew Shovlin has revealed that the team have found some solutions to the problems that have thus far hampered them in 2022. The eight-time constructors’ champions appeared to struggle during pre-season testing under the all-new technical regulations, in which ground effect has returned amid Formula 1’s attempt to facilitate better and closer
MoreMick Schumacher has told Ferrari that he will be ready to step up and race for them in a one-off capacity should Carlos Sainz or Charles Leclerc miss a race. The 23-year-old made his debut with Haas last season alongside fellow rookie Nikita Mazepin, and managed a best finish of 13th at the Hungarian Grand
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