Ferrari and Carlos Sainz are close to agreeing a new deal to keep the Spaniard at the team beyond 2022, but there is reportedly a disagreement over the length of the new contract. Sainz signed from McLaren ahead of the 2021 season to replace the departing Sebastian Vettel, and he managed four podiums last campaign
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes that the rules need to be tweaked to prevent “some of the teams” from sharing critical information with each other. Mercedes and Racing Point were the centre of attention in 2020 when the British team were found to have directly copied the 2019 Mercedes car illegally, leading to a
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Three Formula 1 teams have asked the FIA for clarification over the legality of the 2022 Haas car, according to a report by Auto Motor und Sport. Haas spent the majority of last season developing for the new technical regulations introduced this year, and thus became the first scoreless team in six years as Nikita
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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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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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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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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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Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has praised Sergio Perez’s development in the early going of the 2022 season after the Mexican’s second-placed finish at the Australian Grand Prix. Max Verstappen was set to take second place in Bahrain in the opening round of the season before a fuel vacuum failure put him out of
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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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