Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz is set to be handed a 10-place grid drop ahead of the French Grand Prix on Sunday. The Spaniard looked all set to pass Max Verstappen late on in the Austrian Grand Prix before his race was abruptly ended by a spectacular engine blowout. The F1-75 quickly became engulfed in flames, and
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believes his team will be unaffected by the regulation change set to come into effect at the Belgian Grand Prix. In a bid to counter “porpoising” and bouncing, the FIA measured the cars at the Canadian Grand Prix so that they could set a limit for oscillating movement. When
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Red Bull Racing are clearly the dominant side this season when it comes to race victories; the Austrian team have claimed seven wins from the opening 11 races, with Ferrari claiming the other four. However, it’s a different story on Saturdays, with Ferrari having actually claimed more pole positions than their title rivals. The Italian
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With just two races remaining before the summer break, Ferrari are being urged by their former technical chief, Enrico Scalabroni, to finally decide on who is the team’s number one driver. The team has allowed both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz to fight for victories this season, even at the expense of closing the gap
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Every time a new set of technical regulations are introduced, someone finds a clever way of exploiting loopholes to extract maximum performance. The blown diffuser used in 2009 by now managing director of Formula 1, Ross Brawn, can be used as an example of that, so it is almost poetic that he was the one
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has no interest in intervening between Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz in the championship fight just yet. The pair went at it during the sprint race in Austria in round 11, and they were allowed to race as long as they kept it clean, which they did. In doing so,
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Former Ferrari and McLaren driver Gerhard Berger has suggested that Ferrari supporters should take the positives from the improvements they have made this season. The Scuderia went 45 races without a victory as they failed to stand on the top step in either 2020 or 2021, and they had developed a particularly woeful package two
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has frequently said this season that he expects Mercedes to make it a three-way fight at the front after their sluggish start to the season, and he has continued that trend ahead of the French Grand Prix. Mercedes are yet to win a race in 2022 due to the
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has described the pace difference between Red Bull and his team as “negligible” after upgrades to the rear wing for the Scuderia. With Charles Leclerc starting at the back of the grid in Canada due to engine penalties, Ferrari trialled a new rear wing on the Monegasque’s car, and he
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Red Bull’s engine consultant, Masashi Yamamoto, believes that Ferrari will have the upper hand in Hungary just before the summer break, but anticipates a strong performance from Red Bull in France this weekend. Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez have, between them, won seven races this season, and six of those were consecutive after the Scuderia
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