Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has noted that McLaren driver Daniel Ricciardo is continuing to struggle at McLaren, but believes the Australian still shouldn’t be written off. Ricciardo was out-qualified by Lando Norris 15 times in 22 races at McLaren last season having joined from Renault, and his 13 points finishes last year made
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Red Bull’s ruthlessness has become a prominent talking point when considering their future driver line-ups and, with Sergio Perez out of contract at the end of this season, there’s a chance he could be sacked. A few names can be thrown into the hat, and a few more names would likely love to be thrown
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has taken to social media to welcome back Sebastian Vettel after the German’s COVID-enforced absence from the opening two rounds of the 2022 Formula 1 season. Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, 10 drivers have tested positive for the virus, and seven of them – excluding Pierre Gasly, Lando Norris
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McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl has commented on the team’s woeful performance at the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix. After a promising showing at the first pre-season test in Barcelona, McLaren suffered brake issues during the second week in Bahrain, limiting them to 199 laps of running through Lando Norris. It compounded the news that Daniel
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Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has revealed that there will be an opportunity for world champion Max Verstappen to leave if the performance of the car begins to deteriorate. Verstappen agreed a lucrative contract with the Milton Keynes side over the winter having dramatically sealed his maiden world championship with them in 2021. He
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Christian Horner has revealed that a lucrative offer was put in front of Daniel Ricciardo in 2018, and cited one of the Australian’s reasons for leaving as being a fear of lack of performance from Honda. Ricciardo won seven races in five seasons with Red Bull, finishing on the podium at his home race in
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo is both excited and apprehensive ahead of his home race in Australia. Formula 1 has been forced to miss each of the last two scheduled grand prix in Melbourne owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning that the 32-year-old had to stay away from his home country for almost 20 months, resulting in
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Max Verstappen had a few giggles at Lando Norris’ expense following the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, after the Briton scored McLaren’s first points of the 2022 season. This year has gotten off to a horrible start for the Woking side and, despite looking particularly strong in the first pre-season test in Barcelona, brake issues coupled
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McLaren CEO Zak Brown has weighed in on the rivalry between Mercedes boss Toto Wolff and Red Bull counterpart Christian Horner after their intense battle during the 2021 season. The pair exchanged multiple shots at one another last season, with Wolff suggesting during season four of Netflix’s Drive to Survive docuseries that Red Bull tend
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2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button has expressed his concern over the length of Lando Norris’ McLaren contract after the Woking side’s abysmal start to the season. Norris signed a new deal over the winter that keeps him at McLaren until the end of 2025, but suggested that there may be “various things” in
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