It’s been a year of frustration for double World Champion Fernando Alonso, with the Spaniard having endured perhaps the largest batch of bad luck ever seen by one driver across an entire season. Reliability problems most commonly with his power unit, ridiculed the 41-year-old’s season, something which came as a huge frustration to the incredibly
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Lando Norris has spent the last two years at McLaren cementing his place as the Woking-based team’s number one, having been very much on an equal status to Carlos Sainz in his first two years in Formula 1. Norris’ partnership with Daniel Ricciardo was predicted to be one of learning for the 23-year-old, given that
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Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso’s relationship is certainly an odd one, given just how fierce their rivalry once was. In 2007, McLaren had one of the most intriguing and exciting driver line-ups in their hands, with the best driver at the time partnering the newest. Considering Alonso claimed the 2005 and 2006 World Championships, Hamilton
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McLaren experienced a nightmare start to the new era of Formula 1, as major regulation changes forced teams to rethink the way they design their cars, and they finished towards the back of the grid in Bahrain. Towards the end of the 2021 season McLaren began to look like a team on the up, with
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Alpine had created a roadmap for Oscar Piastri to become a roaring success with the team, involving a loan to Williams before taking Fernando Alonso’s seat in the future. Alonso’s shock departure to Aston Martin forced the team to skip the Williams loan and appoint Piastri as Esteban Ocon’s partner for 2023, until the Australian
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With his dire two-year spell at McLaren officially complete, Daniel Ricciardo has reflected on the challenges he’s faced and why a sabbatical from full-time racing in 2023 is the best thing for him. It hasn’t just been a challenging two years for the fan favourite but a troublesome four years, where he’s largely under-performed at both Renault
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Daniel Ricciardo’s career has not panned out the way that he would have liked since he made the bold decision to leave Red Bull in 2019. The ‘Honey Badger’ spent two seasons at Renault before joining McLaren in his search for Formula 1 glory, not happy to be treated as a second driver at Red
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Daniel Ricciardo’s time as a Formula 1 driver is done, at least for the time being. The Australian said an emotional goodbye to McLaren after finishing ninth in the season finale at the Yas Marina Circuit, in what was just his seventh points finish of the season. It has been a tough watch for fans
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Following on from two challenging years at McLaren, both physically and mentally, Daniel Ricciardo has opened up on how it feels to return “home” to Red Bull after four years away. Leaving Red Bull for Renault at the end of 2018 was always a huge gamble by the 33-year-old, who was walking away from a
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2022 has perhaps not been the season McLaren would’ve been hoping for following a very successful 2021 campaign, with the Woking-based side having certainly returned to the midfield this year. After challenging the frontrunners at the vast majority of the races in 2021, McLaren were very rarely capable of challenging the top three, let alone the top
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