A surprise revelation has emerged surrounding Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff’s comments on his relationship with Red Bull boss Christian Horner. It had recently been reported that Wolff feels “regret” over his antagonistic relationship with Horner over the course of 2021, with the two persistently throwing jibes at one another as the battle between Formula
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Alfa Romeo have announced that they will unveil their 2022 challenger on 27 February, two days after it is given its “shakedown” in Barcelona. The Swiss team had a largely disappointing season last year, slumping to ninth in the Constructors’ Championship as Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi extracted six points finishes between them from the
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The FIA need to implement changes in Formula 1 to appease seven-time world champion Sir Lewis Hamilton, Dutch racing driver Michael Bleekemolen has suggested. Hamilton and Mercedes felt cheated when race director Michael Masi allowed a limited number of lapped cars to pass the Safety Car ahead of the final lap of the season-ending Abu
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Red Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley believes it is imperative that the FIA thoroughly investigate what transpired in the controversial 2021 season finale in Abu Dhabi in December. Race director Michael Masi had initially ruled that no lapped runners would be permitted to pass the Safety Car late on in the title-decider as Sir Lewis
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Sir Lewis Hamilton cannot claim that he was unlucky over the course of the 2021 season, ex-Formula 1 driver Mario Andretti has insisted. The seven-time world champion was cruelly denied his record-breaking eighth F1 crown at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in December, after a controversial Safety Car restart by race director Michael Masi
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Sir Lewis Hamilton is “wise” to have distanced himself from Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff following the highly controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, as he doesn’t want to jeopardise his potential plans for a future in Hollywood. That’s according to 1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve, who said he believes that Wolff has “damaged
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Mercedes have denied reports that their 2022 car failed a side crash test from the FIA, insisting that the W13 is ready to go for the new season. The Brackley-based team were said to have failed the side-on collision test, as the Italian edition of Motorsport.com had reported. “The static test was not passed a
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New FIA executive director of single-seaters Peter Bayer has affirmed that the Formula 1 governing body would like to continue working with race director Michael Masi, and sympathises with the effect widespread criticism has had on him. Masi was the centre of attention for largely the wrong reasons in 2021, with notable incidents in Azerbaijan,
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Red Bull are unsure what to expect from their car from a competitive standpoint in 2022, but are confident they have done all they can to remain at the front of the grid. The team were interlocked in an intense battle with serial constructors’ champions Mercedes last year in what became an extraordinarily tense affair,
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Sergio Perez has opened up on the difficulties of taming the Red Bull car in 2021, and said he looks forward to stepping up his development this year. Perez joined the Milton Keynes-based team from Racing Point ahead of last season to replace the departing Alex Albon, whose two podiums were not enough to mitigate
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