Esteban Ocon recently featured on the Beyond the Grid podcast, where he spoke all about his Formula 1 journey to date. The Frenchman, who is only 25 years old, has already had a turbulent career in the sport. Ocon’s F1 career appeared to be over before it had really gotten going, after being booted from
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Sir Lewis Hamilton is targeting the British Grand Prix as the race where he hopes the Silver Arrows can finally begin to challenge Red Bull and Ferrari for victories. Mercedes have been on the back foot for the majority of the season under the new technical regulations, and they have struggled to figure out how
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Mercedes trackside engineer Andrew Shovlin is not altogether optimistic that the Azerbaijan Grand Prix this weekend will yield many more fruits than the Monaco Grand Prix last time out. Having scored a podium through George Russell in Spain, the Silver Arrows struggled in Monaco as they tried to get the car to work around the
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FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem has not ruled out the possibility of introducing more of a pragmatic approach to training the stewards in Formula 1 after multiple complaints in recent months. Former race director Michael Masi was removed from his role ahead of the 2022 season following the extremely controversial end to 2021 that saw
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2022 hasn’t started at all how the Mercedes F1 Team would’ve envisaged, with them sitting third in the constructors’ championship after seven rounds. The eight-time defending World Champions have struggled getting to grips with the new regulations, specifically their porpoising issue on the W13. The Spanish Grand Prix, however, appeared to be a turning point
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has dismissed suggestions that the “porpoising” issue that plagued the Silver Arrows in the early part of the year affected their cars in Monaco. The new technical regulations in 2022 saw a return to ground effect aerodynamics and, as such, lower ride heights were necessitated. The “porpoising” phenomenon that emerged
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Racing driver Tom Coronel believes that Toto Wolff will have an ideal replacement in reserve driver Nyck de Vries should Sir Lewis Hamilton leave Formula 1 in the coming years. De Vries won eight races in three years with a combination Rapax, Prema and ART, winning the title in 2019. The Dutchman had previously been
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Former Mercedes aerodynamicist Philipp Brandle observes that Michael Schumacher had better technical knowledge than Sir Lewis Hamilton, but affirms that the Briton is better than most at having an instinctive feel for the car. Mercedes have struggled in the early going of 2022 since the turn of the new technical regulations which have seen the
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Mercedes trackside engineer Andrew Shovlin believes that Fernando Alonso ultimately prevented Sir Lewis Hamilton from challenging George Russell and Lando Norris at the Monaco Grand Prix. Hamilton was denied a final run in qualifying last weekend when a combination of Sergio Perez, Carlos Sainz and Alonso caused a red flag, and the seven-time champion had
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Sports brand Puma have called Sir Lewis Hamilton an eight-time world champion in a Mercedes poster on the window of one of their stores in Prague. Hamilton was cruelly denied his eighth world title at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last season when a controversial decision by now former race director Michael Masi led
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