Formula 1 Safety Car driver Bernd Maylander has seen it all in his 23-year career at the pinnacle of motorsport, with the German having had an incredible amount of talent in his rear view mirror. Michael Schumacher, Mika Hakkinen, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Max Verstappen, just a few of the names who’ve sat patiently (most
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According to RacingNews365.com, a fourth contender has entered the race to join the Formula 1 grid from 2025, putting pressure on the likes of HiTech and Panthera. Following the FIA’s announcement that they were open to applications from prospective new F1 teams, four parties are believed to have shown an interest in joining the grid;
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British American Racing (BAR) founder Craig Pollock is pushing to enter a new team into Formula 1, following the FIA’s announcement that they were open to allowing two new teams to join the grid. The former BAR CEO and team principal isn’t planning on entering any normal team, though, but a world’s first. Pollock is
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Formula 1’s governing body, the FIA, has told Formula1News.co.uk that it could re-introduce Technical Directive 39 (TD39/22) “at very short notice” if porpoising re-emerges as an issue this season. TD39/22 was introduced ahead of the 2022 Belgian Grand Prix in a bid to alleviate porpoising, amid Mercedes in particular lobbying the FIA to take action,
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Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer has revealed that he was unsuccessful in getting some of Pierre Gasly’s penalty points removed from his super licence, following a change of the rules by the FIA. Last season saw plenty of criticism fired towards the governing body, who were awarding penalty points to drivers for incidents which didn’t
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Since the introduction of a new era of technical regulations, porpoising has been a challenge that plagued cars across the grid, most notably Mercedes. The W13 suffered so significantly during races that Lewis Hamilton struggled to get out of his car after the 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix left him suffering severe pain. The situation was,
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Sunday’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was certainly an eventful one for all the wrong reasons, as the FIA once again grabbed all the headlines after slapping Fernando Alonso with a 10-second time penalty, just to revoke it hours later. Alonso drove brilliantly once again for Aston Martin at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, with the Spaniard
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In Formula 1 there are a number of rules in place to keep racing clean, fair and competitive. One of these rules prevents drivers from weaving on the straights when defending from another driver and this massively decreases the risk of high-speed crashes during overtaking manoeuvres. Drivers are allowed to make one defensive action and
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Following Sunday’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz have both revealed that following another car was just as difficult as “in the old cars”, potentially causing panic amongst the FIA. Whilst last weekend’s race at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit saw more overtakes than ever before at the venue, the number of completed
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Double world champion Fernando Alonso was left unhappy after the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, after the race was thrown into controversy during the podium celebrations. Alonso and Aston Martin were the biggest talking point of the Saudi Arabian GP, after the Spaniard was awarded a five-second time penalty due to having started too far to
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