Sir Lewis Hamilton has suggested that some stewards, be it unknowingly or otherwise, often favour certain drivers due to their friendship with them. Hamilton was harshly denied his eighth world championship last year following a controversial Safety Car restart by race director Michael Masi ahead of the final lap. As a legacy of that, Max
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner had to backpedal on a comment he made during a talkSPORT interview yesterday, after presenter Laura Woods called him out on it. Horner suggested that more girls are starting to get into Formula 1 because of the attractiveness of the current crop of drivers. Netflix’s Drive to Survive docuseries
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Almost half of F1 fans who took part in a Formula1News.co.uk poll believe that the FIA made a mistake by firing Michael Masi after the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Specifically, 47.2 percent of participants said they don’t think the FIA made the right call by removing Masi as Formula 1’s race director ahead
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Eugene Arocca, CEO of Motorsport Australia, sympathises with Michael Masi after his removal as Formula 1’s race director, and maintains that he will always be welcome at Australia’s motorsport governing body should he wish to return. Masi has been forced to step down by new FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem following the contentious events of
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Following the name partner deal with Oracle that sees Red Bull stand to earn $500 million over the next five years, the team have now partnered with Bybit – another cryptocurrency company. The Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange have signed with the Milton Keynes outfit in a deal worth $50 million a year for the next three
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff and Red Bull boss Christian Horner appeared in an equivocal mood as they left the FIA’s headquarters in London on Monday following a meeting with of the F1 Commission. New FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem is leading a taskforce into the controversial events of the Abu Dhabi Grand prix last
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Newly appointed FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem says that Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff and Red Bull’s Christian Horner got on just fine during a meeting of the F1 Commission earlier this week. Team bosses met to discuss the controversial end to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in 2021, in which race director Michael Masi
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Formula 1 teams bosses – most notably Toto Wolff and Christian Horner – arrived in London earlier this week to meet with the FIA and discover their initial findings from the investigation they are carrying out into the controversial closing stages of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Max Verstappen defeated Sir Lewis Hamilton to
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Aston Martin chief technical officer Andrew Green has aimed a sly jibe at Red Bull after their car launch ahead of the 2022 season. Dr Helmut Marko had already indicated to fans that the car Max Verstappen will be using in a bid to defend his title will not look quite like the one that
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Former Formula 1 driver Mark Webber has lamented the manner in which the 2021 championship was decided in December. Sir Lewis Hamilton had looked set to beat Max Verstappen to the title heading into the closing laps of the race at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, but a late crash for Williams’ Nicholas Latifi
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