Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer has sensationally called for the FIA to “look” into allowing teams a “third car”, following Esteban Ocon’s absence from qualifying at the Miami Grand Prix. Ocon crashed heavily during FP3 in Miami, leaving his team with insufficient time to fix the Frenchman’s cracked chassis. The Alpine driver was lucky to
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Carlos Sainz has conceded that his adaptation to the F1-75 under the new technical regulations has been a difficult one, but maintained that there is no lead driver at Ferrari. Sainz has been out-qualified and out-raced by Charles Leclerc in all five races so far in 2022, and his campaign has not been helped by
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Carlos Sainz has confirmed that a “gust of wind” caused him to lose the rear of his Ferrari going into Turn Four in Spain, and the trip through the gravel cause significant damage to his car. Sainz lost a place to the fast-starting George Russell on the opening lap, before falling out of the points
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Charles Leclerc has started the 2022 season in emphatic fashion, having won two of the five races so far this year. The Monegasque driver currently sits top of the drivers’ championship on 104-points, 19 ahead of title rival Max Verstappen. Leclerc’s strong start to the new season comes on the back of finishing behind team-mate
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Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz is adamant that a solution must be found to avoid injuring the drivers as a result of the pain he has been experiencing due to the turbulence caused by the new cars. This year, ground effect aerodynamics have made a return under the new technical regulations, and it has led to the
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Championship leader Charles Leclerc is slightly concerned by Ferrari’s race pace at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, admitting that the F1-75 is not treating its tyres well. Leclerc topped both practice sessions in Barcelona on Friday, with Carlos Sainz ensuring a Ferrari one-two in the opening hour. Mercedes were the surprise package of FP2 as
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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc believes that his team will have gone some way towards overturning their current pace deficit to Red Bull with the upgrades they have brought to this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. Ferrari looked to have the edge over Red Bull in the opening rounds of the season, with Leclerc taking relatively comfortable wins
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Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz has one main criticism of the new technical regulations, and it revolves around the physical impact the new cars are having on the drivers. Since the start of the season, many of the drivers – Sainz included – have been seen bouncing off the ground in a phenomenon known as “porpoising.” This
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Fresh estimations have indicated that Ferrari’s power is greater than that of both Mercedes and Red Bull. This is despite the Ferrari reportedly having been up to 19kph slower than the Honda-powered Red Bull in Saudi Arabia, although the superior estimated pace of Mercedes in the speed rap relative to the Scuderia would indicate that
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The Spanish Grand Prix, for many years now, has been symbolic as one of the first European races of the year and the first real opportunity for the teams to bring major upgrades to their cars. That pattern has, however, looked slightly different this year after both Red Bull and Mercedes made changes to their
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