Finnish Formula 1 journalist Mervi Kallio has disclosed her distaste of Lance Stroll’s attitude during interviews, and questioned his passion for the pinnacle of motorsport. Stroll entered F1 in 2017 when his billionaire father Lawrence paid for his drive alongside Felipe Massa at Williams. He was comprehensively out-qualified by the Brazilian and scored seven points
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Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes are all significantly over the 798kg weight limit, while Alfa Romeo’s approach changed ahead of the new season to ensure they kept weight to a minimum. Brand-new technical regulations were introduced ahead of this year as a ground effect aerodynamic philosophy came into effect in the hopes of promoting closer
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Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has been pondering the reasons as to why Mercedes have struggled thus far in 2022, and has suggested that their lack of pace is due to the new fuel blend as well as the engineers who have jumped ship. A raft of new technical regulations were introduced to Formula
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Former Formula 1 driver Kimi Raikkonen has been photographed taking his four-year-old daughter, Rianna, go-karting as the second of his two children ventures onto the racing scene. Raikkonen left F1 at the end of 2021 after 19 seasons in the sport, during which he won 21 races; six arrived during his championship-winning campaign in 2007
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Alpine team principal Otmar Szafauer does not believe that team orders are necessary just yet after the exciting battle between Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso at the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Having started the race ahead of his team-mate, Ocon found himself being attacked by the Spaniard early on in the race, and a
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Mercedes have said that Sir Lewis Hamilton did not pit under the late Virtual Safety Car (VSC) in Saudi Arabia because he believed the pitlane was closed. The Briton started the race 15th after a horrible qualifying that saw him knocked out in the first phase, before the incapacity of Mick Schumacher’s destroyed Haas after
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Having spent five years alongside Sir Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas sees the peculiarity in watching the seven-time champion get knocked out in the first qualifying phase in Saudi Arabia. Hamilton changed his set-up ahead of qualifying in Jeddah, but was eliminated in the first part as he set a lap good enough only
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Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz was seen having to wrestle his car as it was bounced around by the track surface during free practice at the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. The “porpoising” issue has been posed by the new technical regulations as the ground effect aerodynamics put the car right down onto the floor, causing to
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KFC had a brilliant response to Mercedes when they came up with a hilarious caption for the image of Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff peeping his head through the halo on George Russell’s car. Russell qualified ninth for the Bahrain Grand Prix in the opening race weekend of the 2022 season, a second behind Sir
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has revealed the pressing reason he felt the need to jump off the parade bus ahead of the season-opening 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix. The drivers embarked on their customary tour of the circuit in Sakhir in a parade bus, as they waved to the fans and took questions from reporters, previewing the
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