Martin Brundle has no doubt about Sir Lewis Hamilton’s motivation after Mercedes’ rocky start to the 2022 season. As new technical regulations came into force in Formula 1 this year, they gave way to a paradigm shift in the pinnacle of motorsport, as Mercedes’ dominance has seemingly come to an end. The Silver Arrows have
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Mercedes driver George Russell says that he and team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton were running different set-ups in Saudi Arabia in a bid to eliminate the issues they have been facing in 2022. Hamilton was shockingly knocked out of the first qualifying phase on Saturday, and revealed afterwards that he had altered his set-up, but described
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Having spent five years alongside Sir Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas sees the peculiarity in watching the seven-time champion get knocked out in the first qualifying phase in Saudi Arabia. Hamilton changed his set-up ahead of qualifying in Jeddah, but was eliminated in the first part as he set a lap good enough only
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Following a controversial, tumultuous, scary and exhausting weekend in Jeddah, Sir Lewis Hamilton is relieved to be going home. Missile attacks marred the opening day of the weekend at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, with the drivers eventually coming to the decision to race amid a GPDA statement that they were satisfied that everyone in
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has taken the silver lining out of Mercedes’ struggles during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix weekend. Hamilton was knocked out of qualifying in the first phase on Saturday, but eventually recovered up the order to end the race 10th and take a point from the 305-kilometre race while team-mate George Russell managed
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has supported the decision for the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix to go ahead as scheduled despite missile attacks on a nearby oil facility. Shortly before the end of the first practice session on Friday, large plumes of black smoke were seen in the distance emanating from the Aramco
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A member of the Haas team has utilised the power of memes to express his bemusement at the fact that the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix has been allowed to go ahead as scheduled. On Friday afternoon, videos began circulating on social media of an oil refinery which had caught fire around 10 kilometres from
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The 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix is set to go ahead as planned this weekend despite an attack on a nearby Aramco facility. On Friday afternoon, a fire broke out around 10 kilometres from the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, and it transpired that Houthis militants had carried out a missile attack on the oil facility. The
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The 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will proceed as planned despite Friday’s missile strike on an oil facility around 10 kilometres away from the Jeddah Corniche Circuit. Moments before the first practice session of the weekend was set to come to an end, colossal plumes of smoke were seen in the distance emanating from an
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Mercedes trackside engineer Andrew Shovlin has revealed that the team have found some solutions to the problems that have thus far hampered them in 2022. The eight-time constructors’ champions appeared to struggle during pre-season testing under the all-new technical regulations, in which ground effect has returned amid Formula 1’s attempt to facilitate better and closer
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