A heart-wrenching team radio message from Daniel Ricciardo has emerged after the Australian ended the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in18th and discovered that team-mate Lando Norris had finished on the podium. Ricciardo had ended the sprint race P6 just behind Norris, but misjudged his braking into Turn One on the opening lap of the race, wiping
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Helmet cameras in Formula 1 will become compulsory for all teams next season after successful trials in 2021 and 2022. Helmet cameras have been around longer than one might think in F1. Mark Webber wore one during free practice for the Australian Grand Prix in 2012, before compatriot Daniel Ricciardo gave us a fascinating perspective
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McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl has indicated that the torrid race the team suffered at the season-opening 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix was merely a blip. Lando Norris managed 199 laps of running at the second test in Bahrain as Daniel Ricciardo sat out the three days having contracted COVID-19, and they were hampered by a
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Spanish Formula 1 journalist Albert Fabrega shocked viewers in his livestream by claiming that there will be a driver swap in the near future between two teams. “We will see changes,” he said in a live video. “There is already movement in the market. Things are happening but I cannot say because they have told
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Lando Norris believes that he could have been on the front row of the grid for Saturday’s sprint race at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix had he not made his mistake at the end of qualifying. For the fourth time in succession and the 19th time since they have been team-mates, Norris out-qualified Daniel Ricciardo in
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Double Formula 1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi predicts McLaren will have the pace to compete for a podium at the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. McLaren made a torrid start to the 2022 campaign as they tried to get to grips with a temperamental car that performed well in the first pre-season test in Barcelona,
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McLaren driver Daniel Ricciardo has revealed that he did not want to “force” a friendship with Lando Norris after the anticipation of their relationship as team-mates. Having enjoyed frequent jokes with each other in 2020 and famously, in the British Grand Prix press conference in 2021, Norris and Ricciardo were confirmed as McLaren’s driver line-up
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Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko concedes that he worried his world champion driver Max Verstappen might have been tempted elsewhere while they were still climbing back up to the top of the timing screens. After four consecutive world championships with Sebastian Vettel between 2010 and 2013, during such time they won 41 races between
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Double Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen has revealed that he has been impressed with George Russell’s consistency, but maintains that fortune has slightly skewed the perception of relative performance. Russell has adapted well to life at Mercedes since joining from Williams over the winter, out-qualifying team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton once and out-racing him twice.
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Lando Norris believes that Sir Lewis Hamilton’s dynamism will shine through in the wake of Mercedes’ struggles as they try to recover from an underwhelming start to 2022. Mercedes have been a particular victim of the “porpoising” problem posed by the new technical regulations that now sees the downforce generated by aerodynamic parts on the
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