A heart-wrenching team radio message from Daniel Ricciardo has emerged after the Australian ended the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in18th and discovered that team-mate Lando Norris had finished on the podium. Ricciardo had ended the sprint race P6 just behind Norris, but misjudged his braking into Turn One on the opening lap of the race, wiping
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McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl has indicated that the torrid race the team suffered at the season-opening 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix was merely a blip. Lando Norris managed 199 laps of running at the second test in Bahrain as Daniel Ricciardo sat out the three days having contracted COVID-19, and they were hampered by a
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Lando Norris aimed a gentle dig at George Russell after finishing on the podium at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, joking that he had the “ninth or tenth” fastest car. After spinning at Acque Minerali in qualifying, the Briton started the sprint race P3 and came home fifth on Saturday, before taking advantage of an
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Lando Norris believes that he could have been on the front row of the grid for Saturday’s sprint race at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix had he not made his mistake at the end of qualifying. For the fourth time in succession and the 19th time since they have been team-mates, Norris out-qualified Daniel Ricciardo in
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Double Formula 1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi predicts McLaren will have the pace to compete for a podium at the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. McLaren made a torrid start to the 2022 campaign as they tried to get to grips with a temperamental car that performed well in the first pre-season test in Barcelona,
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McLaren driver Lando Norris has revealed that he never really spoke with former Formula 1 driver Kimi Raikkonen in the three seasons they spent on the grid together. In his 19 seasons spanning two spells in the pinnacle of motorsport, Raikkonen was notorious for two things. The first was his unrelenting pace and ability as
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McLaren driver Daniel Ricciardo has revealed that he did not want to “force” a friendship with Lando Norris after the anticipation of their relationship as team-mates. Having enjoyed frequent jokes with each other in 2020 and famously, in the British Grand Prix press conference in 2021, Norris and Ricciardo were confirmed as McLaren’s driver line-up
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Double Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen has revealed that he has been impressed with George Russell’s consistency, but maintains that fortune has slightly skewed the perception of relative performance. Russell has adapted well to life at Mercedes since joining from Williams over the winter, out-qualifying team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton once and out-racing him twice.
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Christian Horner and Toto Wolff have differing opinions on the effectiveness of DRS after the engaging battles between Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen in the early part of 2022. The new technical regulations in Formula 1 have reintroduced ground effect aerodynamics in a bid to enhance on-track battles and facilitate closer racing, something that we
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Lando Norris believes that Sir Lewis Hamilton’s dynamism will shine through in the wake of Mercedes’ struggles as they try to recover from an underwhelming start to 2022. Mercedes have been a particular victim of the “porpoising” problem posed by the new technical regulations that now sees the downforce generated by aerodynamic parts on the
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