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Lando Norris to honour McLaren contract despite Red Bull links

2022 was another successful year for young McLaren star Lando Norris, with the 23-year-old finishing as the best of the rest driver and being the only man outside of the top three teams to score a podium. One thing that does elude the Brit however is his first race win, with Norris being forced to

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McLaren Racing CEO reveals Lando Norris disciplinary issue

Lando Norris was the standout driver outside of the top three teams in 2022, being the only driver that was not in a Red Bull, Ferrari or Mercedes to score a podium. The Brit continues to improve year after year and has been tipped to become a future world champion, should he be given a

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‘That hits you pretty hard’: Lando Norris opens up on mental health struggles

McLaren star Lando Norris has further opened up on his personal battles with mental health, with the British driver having first discussed his mental challenges in 2021. The British driver is approaching his fifth season already in Formula 1, with the 23-year-old certainly a driver expected to achieve incredible things. He has managed some exceptional

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Daniel Ricciardo told to get ready for retirement

Daniel Ricciardo took a massive gamble ahead of the 2019 season, as the Australian opted to ditch the comfortability of Red Bull in favour of a fresh challenge at Renault. The 33-year-old had become frustrated with Red Bull’s decision to favour a young Max Verstappen over him, seeing his championship hopes dwindle. A two-year stay

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Haas question FIA restriction ahead of ban

Wind tunnels are key to creating a competitive Formula 1 car, with every hour allocated to the teams being used to the final second in order to get the maximum amount of data possible. In recent years however, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become more and more advanced and has therefore taken over some of

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McLaren not ‘too scared’ about Oscar Piastri

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella believes rookie driver Oscar Piastri has “enough talent” to learn from the “references” laid out by team-mate Lando Norris, to get an understanding of the team’s 2023 challenger. Norris will certainly be the Woking-based team’s number one driver for at least the start of the upcoming season, with Piastri’s initial

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Lando Norris reveals Daniel Ricciardo helped him overcome ‘struggle’

McLaren star Lando Norris has revealed that he learned a “hell of a lot” from former team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, who he raced alongside in 2021 and 2022. The duo appeared to have a brother-like bond, with the pair having been inseparable off-circuit. McLaren’s decision to separate the two for 2023 wouldn’t have been easy to

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‘I have to apologise’: Double F1 champion makes Daniel Ricciardo claim

Daniel Ricciardo’s career has now come full circle, as the Australian finds himself back at Red Bull having left the team four years ago specifically to break away from the energy drink giants. The 33-year-old had grown tired of the team’s decision to favour a young Max Verstappen and left Red Bull for Renault, then

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Zak Brown hails Oscar Piastri for dealing with Alpine threats

Having come through the Alpine driver academy and being the 2021 Formula 2 champion, it looked as if the French team had the perfect replacement for the ageing Fernando Alonso waiting in the wings. The team’s initial plan was to loan Piastri to Williams to gain experience until Alonso’s contract expired, however when the Spaniard

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Daniel Ricciardo fired warning about taking F1 sabbatical

Ex-Formula 1 driver Mark Webber has warned fellow Australian Daniel Ricciardo that his one-year sabbatical will likely “feel longer” than a year for him, but that it could actually be something that works in the 33-year-old’s favour. Ricciardo finds himself on the bench for 2023 after opting to take a year out of F1 to

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