Daniel Ricciardo has been hailed for having the “winning recipe” by American actor and comedian Will Arnett, whilst talking on his F1 podcast Fast & Loose. The Aussie faced an unfortunate end to the Italian Grand Prix last weekend, after retiring with just a handful of laps remaining. Whilst running in seventh, in what would’ve
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo believes that Max Verstappen’s championship journey started in 2018, when he matured and came back from a tough start to the year. The Dutchman had contested just one season of single seaters in Formula 3 in 2014 before making his Formula 1 debut with Toro Rosso a year later. Then 17 going
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It would come as no surprise that the two oldest drivers on the grid, Fernando Alonso and Sir Lewis Hamilton, have a somewhat fiery and argumentative past, with the pair having first met in 2007. After winning his second consecutive title with Renault in 2006, Alonso announced that he’d be moving to McLaren, who had lost Juan
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Having briefly worked with Nyck de Vries while at McLaren, Sir Lewis Hamilton was delighted to see the Dutchman finally get his shot in Formula 1. The now 27-year-old was still in karting when he became a member of the McLaren young drivers’ programme, and he was involved in simulator testing with the team. The
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Former McLaren mechanic, Marc Priestley, has revealed that Fernando Alonso used “tactics” to win over members of the team during the 2007 season. Alonso had just on two championships on the spin with Renault in 2005 and 2006, but he moved from Enstone to Woking to join Ron Dennis’ McLaren side. That door had opened
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2016 world champion, Nico Rosberg, believes that Alpine must look in the mirror when figuring out why they started the year with three drivers, and now have just the one. Fernando Alonso went into this season alongside Esteban Ocon knowing that he was out of contract at the end of the season, so both parties
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1997 world champion, Jacque Villeneuve, has suggested that Daniel Ricciardo does not deserve to race with Alpine next season. The Australian is leaving McLaren at the end of the season after his performances were not deemed satisfactory by the team, and the news of his departure came after less than two years with the British
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McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has spoken out about winning the Oscar Piastri saga, for the first time since the FIA’s Contract Recognition Board concluded that the Australian was legally allowed to race for the Woking-based team next season. Piastri is, of course, Alpine’s reserve driver and has been a profound part of their driver
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Guenther Steiner has suggested that Haas have looked at Daniel Ricciardo as an option for next season, but he is not sure what the Australian wants to do yet. Haas are currently looking to tie up their driver line-up for 2023 – Kevin Magnussen is locked in, but Mick Schumacher is currently out of contract
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Lando Norris was left wondering what might have been after he finished seventh at the Italian Grand Prix last weekend. The Briton started the race in third after Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Sir Lewis Hamilton all picked up penalties. With Daniel Ricciardo behind in fourth, it looked as though there was a
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