Mercedes have started to look like themselves in the previous two races, challenging for pole positions and race wins for the first time this season. Austin and Mexico have been Red Bull versus Mercedes, with Ferrari not being able to compete with their rivals as they had earlier in the year, finishing fifth and sixth
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has answered the question that was on all Ferrari fans lips: why are they suddenly so slow? The Mexican Grand Prix last Sunday was certainly not one worth remembering for the Scuderia, after Carlos Sainz crossed the line in a lonely fifth place, 58 seconds behind winner Max Verstappen. Charles
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A fifth and sixth placed finish in Mexico does not look too unimpressive on paper for Ferrari, however, the Scuderia were never really in contention for the podium places, being left behind by the Mercedes and Red Bulls from the very start. In the latter stages of the race a pit stop saw Sergio Perez
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Lewis Hamilton’s eyes must have lit up at the start of Sunday’s race, as he got past his teammate George Russell in the opening couple of corners, allowing him to hunt down Max Verstappen. The Red Bull’s started on the soft and then went on to the mediums, whilst the Mercedes committed to a medium-hard
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Carlos Sainz has faced an incredibly challenging 2022 season, coming off the back of beating Charles Leclerc in the 2021 Drivers’ Championship. The Spaniard has faced calls from the media and even the Scuderia’s hierarchy to take up the spot as the team’s number two driver, instead of regarding himself and Leclerc as equals. Leclerc has raised
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Red Bull are currently enduring somewhat of a waiting game, as the Austrians await confirmation from the FIA over what their punishment will be for exceeding the 2021 budget cap. Following much speculation since the Singapore Grand Prix, the FIA confirmed for all the world last Monday that the current Constructors’ leaders did indeed exceed the budget cap in
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Carlos Sainz has faced a challenging 2022 campaign, one that has seen the Spaniard finish behind his Ferrari team-mate on a number of occasions, resulting in calls that Sainz should be the team’s number two driver. Sainz appears to be somewhat undervalued at the Maranello-based outfit, with the 28-year-old having been criticised by Ferrari president John Elkann.
MoreFerrari team principal, Mattia Binotto, was left wondering why full points were awarded at the Japanese Grand Prix last weekend. Max Verstappen went into the race 104 points clear of Charles Leclerc, and if he beat him by 12, he would secure his second world championship. This meant to say that a win with the
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Charles Leclerc has surprisingly supported the FIA in their decision to award him a five-second time penalty at the Japanese Grand Prix, something which left team principal Mattia Binotto seething. The Monegasque had been looking set for another second-place finish, despite having put Max Verstappen under some pressure during the start of the restarted wet
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Ferrari team principal, Mattia Binotto, would have liked to have the discussion as to who might have broken the budget cap last year, as opposed to this season. Max Verstappen’s victory in Abu Dhabi last year was a controversial one after a bizarre Safety Car restart by now former race director, Michael Masi, but the
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