After having to sit back and watch Mercedes win eight consecutive constructors’ championship since 2014, Red Bull finally returned to the top spot in 2022 with a whitewash season under the new regulations. Mercedes never really got going in the first season of the new era of Formula 1, while Ferrari’s reliability issues and strategy
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The 2021 season finale was truly a race like no other, with Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen having gone toe-to-toe for the Drivers’ Championship. As well as that, Red Bull and Mercedes were also locked in a battle for the Constructors’ Championship too, something that was somewhat forgotten about following the controversial end to the
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Team principal ‘silly season’ is underway, with shock announcements coming out of Formula 1 teams on a seemingly daily basis over the winter break. Mattia Binotto was publicly defended by Ferrari, only to resign days later and Fred Vasseur has now left Alfa Romeo to replace the Swiss as team principal of the Scuderia. Andreas
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2022 will be a year that Mercedes would like to quickly forget, seeing their eight year winning run of the constructors’ championship come to an abrupt end, with a third-place finish last season. The new regulations that came into effect at the start of the year proved to be a major stumbling block for the
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The FIA have not had much luck with regards to the race director role in recent years, as they were forced to sack Michael Masi at the end of the 2021 season, and then chose to sack one of their two 2022 race directors following the controversial Japanese Grand Prix earlier this year. Masi was
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Mercedes’ struggles were one of the biggest surprises of 2022, as the team got off to a slow start under the new regulations that came into effect at the start of the year. The new era of Formula 1 started with Mercedes already looking significantly off of the pace of Red Bull and Ferrari while
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2022 was truly a miserable season for Mercedes, as the Germans had to watch on as their eight-year reign of being Constructors’ Champions came to an embarrassing end. The Silver Arrows have been the masters of the hybrid era since 2014 and have always remained on top even following slight regulation changes; however, the new
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Mick Schumacher’s inconsistency ended up being his downfall in 2022, as the highs of his P6 finish at the Red Bull Ring were often matched by the lows of the expensive crashes in Monaco. Gene Haas and team principal Guenther Steiner have both suggested that an inexperienced driver such as Schumacher ends up being too
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Following much speculation, Mercedes were incredibly pleased to announce the signing of axed Haas driver Mick Schumacher for 2023, with the German taking on the reserve driver role vacated by Nyck de Vries and Stoffel Vandoorne. Schumacher’s move to Mercedes also resulted in the German departing the Ferrari Driver Academy, who have supported him throughout
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A major change in regulations always springs some surprises. 2014 saw Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull’s dominance come to an end at the hands of Mercedes, while 2022 saw the shoe on the other foot as Red Bull brought Mercedes’ eight-year championship winning run to an end. Ferrari were the surprise package of 2022, with
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