Sir Lewis Hamilton has responded to 1997 Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve’s comments about his poor adaptability to the 2022 Mercedes car. Mercedes have been adversely affected by the arrival of the new technical regulations as they attempt to get to the bottom of a litany of issues such as “porpoising” and other handling
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Ferrari have signed a new aerodynamicist from Mercedes as they look to press home their advantage in 2022. New technical regulations have been introduced this year, meaning that designers and engineers have had to adopt an entirely new philosophy to extract maximum performance from the cars. The Scuderia spent much of last year developing for
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Double Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen believes that Sir Lewis Hamilton will be struggling to deal with Mercedes’ lack of pace thus far in 2022. Mercedes have made a dire start to the 2022 season. Hamilton and team-mate George Russell have been somewhat fortuitous to pick up a podium a piece, and victories earned
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Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc does not feel that the “porpoising” the team have been experiencing has been at all detrimental to the performance of his F1-75. New technical regulations were introduced this season in a move that saw the return of ground effect aerodynamics and, as such, a few largely unprecedented issues have surfaced. One
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has affirmed that he wants to go to Brazil more often after a bill was proposed to make the Mercedes driver an honorary citizen. The Briton received his Knighthood in the UKat the end of last year having featured on the New Year’s Honours list at the beginning of 2021, and his
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FIA head of single-seaters technical matters, Nikolas Tombazis, has declared that engine performance up and down the grid is relatively uniform after the introduction of the freeze. The engine freeze is one of many alterations made to the technical regulations this season, with an E10 fuel blend – made up of 90 percent fossil fuels
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has praised the “super job” that Haas have done with their 2022 car, and sees battling them as a fascinating learning curve. On lap time, Mercedes were the quickest team last season, and Haas were an astonishing 3.38% adrift of them on average. Contextualising that, the other nine teams were
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Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has praised Sergio Perez’s development in the early going of the 2022 season after the Mexican’s second-placed finish at the Australian Grand Prix. Max Verstappen was set to take second place in Bahrain in the opening round of the season before a fuel vacuum failure put him out of
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George Russell has revealed that his Mercedes team are not planning to bring upgrades to the car at the next race in Imola. The Silver Arrows have struggled for form since the turn of the new technical regulations this season, suffering from “porpoising,” adverse handling in the corners and seemingly a power deficit to Ferrari
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has affirmed that the team’s ambitions to build their own powertrains from 2026 remain very much alive. It was anticipated that Red Bull would start manufacturing their own engines and gearboxes out of Milton Keynes from this season after agreeing a deal to purchase Honda’s intellectual properties following the
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