Carlos Sainz has renewed his contract with Ferrari until the end of 2024 after an impressive first season with the Scuderia. The Spaniard managed four podiums in 2021 and, despite being out-qualified 13-9 by team-mate Charles Leclerc, his strong haul of results saw him finish the season fifth in the Drivers’ Championship. The Scuderia pipped
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Former Formula 1 driver Marc Gene anticipates that the Silver Arrows will close up to Red Bull and his current Ferrari team with a fresh batch of upgrades, but it won’t happen just yet. Gene scored two points finishes with Minardi and Williams in 36 entries in F1, and served as a Ferrari reserve driver
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Ferrari are unlikely to bring any major upgrades to the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix after their supreme start to the 2022 Formula 1 season. Charles Leclerc has claimed two wins in the opening three rounds of the year thus far, beating Max Verstappen in a thrilling battle in Bahrain before dominating in Australia. The wins
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“Industry observers” have noted that Aston Martin were likely the reason behind the FIA’s message to the teams and drivers that the Safety Car’s primary use is safety, and not speed. Aston Martin and Mercedes share the responsibility of providing Safety and Medical Cars for each championship weekend, and these cars also serve during the
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Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has had a watch worth an estimated $320,000 stolen while out with friends in Italy. Leclerc had been spending Monday evening in Viareggio, around 128 miles south of Ferrari’s base in Maranello, and he was in the Via Salvatori part of the city. This area, according to Leclerc’s trainer Andrea Ferrari,
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Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko believes that Honda have found a fix to the reliability problems that have plagued his team in the early part of 2022. Having been running in second for much of the Bahrain Grand Prix behind eventual winner Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen retired from the race due to a fuel
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Former Formula 1 driver Ralf Schumacher believes that Ferrari have already chosen Charles Leclerc as their number one driver after his immense start to the 2022 Formula 1 season. Leclerc has out-qualified team-mate Carlos Sainz in all three races thus far in 2022, winning two races while the Spaniard managed a best finish of second
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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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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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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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