Mercedes have arrived at the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix with an extra winglet on the side of the car in an attempt to improve airflow. In Australia, the Silver Arrows’ car sported two winglets halfway between the front nose and the extremely small sidepods in a bid to improve airflow and eradicate “porpoising,” but
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George Russell is not feeling altogether confident that Mercedes have clawed back any of the time they have lost in the early part of the 2022 season. Sir Lewis Hamilton and Russell qualified fifth and sixth the Australian Grand Prix, before the 24-year-old managed to climb onto the podium just ahead of the seven-time world
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Former Formula 1 driver Marc Gene anticipates that the Silver Arrows will close up to Red Bull and his current Ferrari team with a fresh batch of upgrades, but it won’t happen just yet. Gene scored two points finishes with Minardi and Williams in 36 entries in F1, and served as a Ferrari reserve driver
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Mercedes will soon be introducing a new iteration of their W13 in their bid to recover from their poor start to the 2022 campaign, according to ex-Formula 1 engineer Julien Simon-Chautemps. The new technical regulations introduced ahead of this season have posed no shortage of issues for the team that has claimed all of the
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Mercedes driver George Russell is finding out first-hand what has made team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton a seven-time champion. Russell joined the Silver Arrows from Williams ahead of the 2022 season to replace Alfa Romeo-bound Valtteri Bottas, and was out-qualified by a second by his compartiot at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix due to a mistake
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Former Formula 1 driver Marc Surer is thoroughly impressed with the job George Russell is doing at Mercedes, but maintains that the Silver Arrows will not be looking at prioritising either of their drivers just yet. Russell joined Mercedes over the winter to replace Alfa Romeo-bound Valtteri Bottas, and he has out-qualified team-mate Sir Lewis
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has responded to 1997 Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve’s comments about his poor adaptability to the 2022 Mercedes car. Mercedes have been adversely affected by the arrival of the new technical regulations as they attempt to get to the bottom of a litany of issues such as “porpoising” and other handling
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Double Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen believes that Sir Lewis Hamilton will be struggling to deal with Mercedes’ lack of pace thus far in 2022. Mercedes have made a dire start to the 2022 season. Hamilton and team-mate George Russell have been somewhat fortuitous to pick up a podium a piece, and victories earned
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Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc does not feel that the “porpoising” the team have been experiencing has been at all detrimental to the performance of his F1-75. New technical regulations were introduced this season in a move that saw the return of ground effect aerodynamics and, as such, a few largely unprecedented issues have surfaced. One
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Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has praised Sergio Perez’s development in the early going of the 2022 season after the Mexican’s second-placed finish at the Australian Grand Prix. Max Verstappen was set to take second place in Bahrain in the opening round of the season before a fuel vacuum failure put him out of
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