Dr Helmut Marko does not believe Ferrari’s form in the last three races is entirely reflective of how the 2022 title fight is going to go down. Charles Leclerc retired from the lead of the race in both Spain and Azerbaijan after suffering reliability failures. Team-mate Carlos Sainz suffered the same fate last weekend in
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Former Ferrari driver Gerhard Berger has asked fans and pundits not to be too hard on Ferrari’s strategists after a tricky afternoon in Monaco last weekend. Charles Leclerc was leading the race in changing conditions having started on pole ahead of team-mate Carlos Sainz, and the Red Bull pair of Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen
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Former Formula 1 driver Gerhard Berger has warned that the dynamic between Sir Lewis Hamilton and George Russell could begin to waver after the 24-year-old’s impressive performances so far in 2022. The underperforming Mercedes team’s woes have been cultivated by the turn of the new technical regulations, of which Berger has declared himself a fan
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Alfa Romeo driver Valtteri Bottas has come to the defence of former Mercedes team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton after a troubling start to the 2022 Formula 1 season for the Briton. Hamilton has been out-qualified twice and out-raced three times by new team-mate George Russell in 2022 after the 24-year-old was drafted in from Williams to
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Former Ferrari F1 driver Gerhard Berger does not believe that Carlos Sainz will fulfil his aspirations of becoming the Scuderia’s lead driver, but recognises that this will not stop him from trying. Sainz has been out-qualified and out-raced at every event so far in 2022 by team-mate Charles Leclerc and, perhaps as a result of
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Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has told Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz he must remain calm after two consecutive non-finishes. Sainz was nonplussed after his second-placed finish in Bahrain to open the season, describing his weekend as “tricky” after he was comfortably beaten in qualifying and the race by Leclerc, before finishing third in Saudi Arabia. Regardless
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Former Formula 1 driver Gerhard Berger has indicated that he does not believe Max Verstappen would have won the championship last year were it not for his belligerence on track, as Sir Lewis Hamilton had the faster car. Verstappen came together on multiple occasions with title rival Hamilton as they battled it out for the
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Dr Helmut Marko has not ruled out the possibility that Red Bull may opt to bring Pierre Gasly back into the main fold, thus leaving Sergio Perez out of a seat. Gasly spent 12 races alongside Max Verstappen in 2019 at Red Bull, and found himself out-qualified 11 times, while failing to get on the
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Former Formula 1 driver Gerhard Berger insists that Pierre Gasly deserves another go at Red Bull after his exceptional performances with Scuderia AlphaTauri. Gasly earned a chance at the Red Bull team after scoring points five times in 2018, including a fourth-placed finish in Bahrain, helping him to a fifteenth-placed Drivers’ Championship finish. However, his
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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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