While George Russell would certainly have hoped to have won more than one race in 2022, considering the circumstances that Mercedes found themselves in, the Brit will be over the moon with his start at his new team. Russell was signed to partner Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes following three impressive years fighting at the back
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Mercedes’ 2022 season can be described as nothing other than a disaster, as the team were completely caught off guard by elements of the new era of Formula 1. The Silver Arrow’s design for the W13 saw the car struggle massively with a porpoising issue that cost the team half a season of development while
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Toto Wolff’s cryptocurrency warning is beginning to come true, with Ferrari having reportedly terminated their contract with crypto company Velas and semi-conductor company Snapdragon, according to RacingNews365.com. It will come at a huge loss for the Maranello-based side, with the two companies having increased the Italians revenue by $55 million, something which will potentially give the
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Going into 2023, Lewis Hamilton is still on the hunt for his record breaking eighth drivers’ championship victory, coming off the back of two heart-breaking years for the Brit. 2021 saw the 37-year-old miss out of the title on the final lap of the season finale in Abu Dhabi, while Mercedes were simply uncompetitive in
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1996 Formula 1 World Champion Damon Hill has predicted that Mercedes will face more of an “uphill struggle” in 2023 than Ferrari, with the Silver Arrows having “misunderstood” their 2022 challenger. 2022 was woeful for Mercedes, with the Germans having had a car which was mostly unable to challenge either Red Bull or Ferrari, at
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Lewis Hamilton has admitted that despite having worked relentlessly to stop discrimination in Formula 1 for the last three years, he continues to have “difficult conversations” with people over racial barriers. The seven-time World Champion has worked tirelessly since the tragic murder of George Floyd, who was killed in 2020 in Minneapolis, United States, at
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With the major changes in regulations coming into effect at the start of 2022, teams had the opportunity to go back to the drawing board and design a car that could get the better of their rivals. Some teams like Ferrari managed to take huge strides forward last season, designing a car capable of winning
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The Schumacher name will continue to live on in Formula 1 in 2023 as Mercedes have picked up Mick Schumacher to replace the AlphaTauri-bound Nyck de Vries as the team’s reserve driver. The German was released from Haas despite showing flashes of his potential during his two years with the American team, as Guenther Steiner
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While some teams seemed to take to the new regulations like a duck to water, others struggled to figure out the best development path in F1’s new era. Mercedes were one of the teams who found it difficult to transition to the new era, selecting a development path that led to an uncompetitive W13 which
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Having dominated the previous eight constructors’ championships it seemed almost unthinkable that Mercedes would enter the new era of Formula 1 uncompetitive. Unfortunately for the Silver Arrows this is exactly what happened however, with the team struggling to figure out how to get the best performance out of the new set of regulations that were
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