Ferrari will unveil their 2022 car, which they hope will allow them to close the gap to Mercedes and Red Bull, on 17 February. The Scuderia’s 2022 challenger will therefore be unveiled less than a week before pre-season testing, which will get underway on 23 February. The oldest and most successful team in Formula 1
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Kimi Raikkonen concedes that former team-mate Sebastian Vettel’s inability to win a championship with Ferrari will ultimately go down as a failure. Raikkonen partnered Vettel for four years at the Maranello outfit between 2015 and 2018, with the four-time world champion out-qualifying the Finn 47 times in 81 races. The German twice challenged Sir Lewis
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Kimi Raikkonen, who recently retired from Formula 1 after almost two decades in the pinnacle of motorsport, has listed a Ferrari supercar for sale. The car in question – a Ferrari F12tdf (Tour de France) – is being sold via a Switzerland-based car dealer for approximately €1.8 million. The tdf is a limited-edition, track-focused version
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Ferrari racing director Laurent Mekies insists that the team did not sacrifice development on their 2022 car during their bid to seal third in the Constructors’ Championship last year. The Scuderia managed to beat McLaren to third in the final round of the season in Abu Dhabi, with Carlos Sainz signing off 2021 with a
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Former Ferrari and McLaren driver Gerhard Berger has leaped to race director Michael Masi’s defence after the highly controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in December. Sir Lewis Hamilton missed out on his record-eighth Drivers’ Championship after Masi opted to allow only five lapped cars through ahead of the Safety Car before the final lap
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Red Bull team principal Christin Horner has spoken of the political battle between his team and Mercedes last year, calling counterpart Toto Wolff “a different kind of animal.” The two teams went head-to-head in both the drivers’ and constructors’ battle throughout 2021, as Max Verstappen beat Sir Lewis Hamilton to the championship in a dramatic
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Ferrari have made some bold choices in the design of their 2022 car as they seek to capitalise on the new regulations next season, according to reports. This year’s cars are set to generate less downforce in a bid to allow cars to follow more closely, thus allowing for better wheel-to-wheel racing. The new machines
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McLaren CEO Zak Brown maintains that the team is “adamantly opposed” to an increase in the budget cap in Formula 1, and struggles to understand why some teams are pushing for such a raise. The budget cap will reduce to $140 million this year, meaning that the teams have less scope for development, and the
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto would like to maintain a positive relationship with Philip Morris after the team dropped their Mission Winnow branding ahead of the 2022 season. The Scuderia came under scrutiny in 2018 when they announced the arrival of the PMI initiative, with many quick to point out that it was a clever
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Kimi Raikkonen has revealed that he has always had bigger things to focus on in life besides Formula 1, and stressed that he decided to retire at the end of 2021 because he had grown tired of certain aspects of the sport. The Finn revealed in F1’s season predictions YouTube video that his decision to
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