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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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko has compared his team’s rivalry with Ferrari to the bitter one with Mercedes, indicating that there is a larger degree of respect between themselves and the Scuderia. Red Bull went toe-to-toe with Ferrari in 2010 and 2012 as Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso claimed 17 race wins between them
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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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Alfa Romeo driver Valtteri Bottas is pleased to see the eagerness of Porsche and Audi to enter Formula 1, but concedes he would like to see more than 10 teams on the grid. Audi and Porsche have confirmed their interest in entering the pinnacle of motorsport, but with slightly different intentions to what were initially
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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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Sir Lewis Hamilton has affirmed that he wants to go to Brazil more often after a bill was proposed to make the Mercedes driver an honorary citizen. The Briton received his Knighthood in the UKat the end of last year having featured on the New Year’s Honours list at the beginning of 2021, and his
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