Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz has spoken on the controversy surrounding the finish to the 2021 championship, suggesting that a red flag would have been the fairer option after Nicholas Latifi’s crash. Sainz was involved in an enthralling final lap at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in December, battling with Yuki Tsunoda and Valtteri Bottas on
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Red Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley has suggested that Ferrari will be an imposing presence amongst Formula 1’s leading fight in 2022. Sweeping changes to the technical regulation will see a massive distinction between this year’s cars and those of 2021 as the ground effect returns and the tyres get bigger. Mercedes team principal Toto
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Haas team principal Guenther Steiner is hesitant to overly involve himself in matters concerning the FIA following the controversial end to last year’s championship. Race director Michael Masi sparked controversy in the world of motorsport when he allowed a limited number of lapped runners to overtake the Safety Car ahead of the final lap of
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Mercedes EQ Formula E driver Nyck De Vries has maintained his ambition to one day compete in Formula 1, and said he has been practising on the team’s F1 simulator since his arrival into the all-electric series. The Dutchman claimed victory in the 2019 Formula 2 championship, but unfortunately was unable to secure a seat
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Red Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley has jumped to the defence of race director Michael Masi, indicating that the FIA underestimated the role they were plunging him into. Masi was involved in several contentious moments last season, not least at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix when he contradicted an earlier decision by allowing a
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has said that any of the 10 Formula 1 teams could win the 2022 championship, as the shake-up of the technical regulations provides a lot of scope for teams to move up or down the sport’s pecking order. The sweeping changes – which were initially set to be introduced in
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Esteban Ocon has refuted the notion that Alpine team-mate Fernando Alonso is a hard man to work with, revealing that he has only had pleasant exchanges with the Spaniard. Alonso returned to Formula 1 at the beginning of 2021 after two seasons out of the sport following his McLaren departure in 2018. The 40-year-old was
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Former Formula 1 driver Karun Chandhok has highlighted a potential reason as to why race director Michael Masi was left in such a precarious position late on in the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Sir Lewis Hamilton was leading title rival Max Verstappen by a comfortable margin heading into the latter stages of the race
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Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has said he believes that Max Verstappen’s championship success last year was the most crucial in the team’s history. The Milton Keynes-based outfit claimed four consecutive Drivers’ Championships with Sebastian Vettel between 2010 and 2013, with team-mate Mark Webber helping them to the constructors’ title in all four of
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Double world champion Mika Hakkinen notes that Sir Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen lean heavily on the safety of modern Formula 1 cars, and that they might not race so aggressively were they to suffer a similar accident to Hakkinen himself in 1995. The Finn was the subject of a tyre blowout in Adelaide that
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