Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko is expecting the times to quickly tumble at pre-season testing this week, with there being such a short turnaround from the three days of testing to the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. Thursday morning saw the first green light of 2023, as pre-season testing officially got underway. Unlike last season
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With Season Five of Formula 1-based hit Netflix docuseries ‘Drive to Survive’ to be released today, double World Champion Max Verstappen will finally discover if his concerns have been addressed. The Dutchman has returned to the newest series having refused to take part in Season Four, with the 25-year-old having been frustrated by the storytelling
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With pre-season testing having officially started at the Sakhir International Circuit in Bahrain, reigning champions Red Bull have finally taken the curtain off their actual 2023 car, after keeping it hidden during launch season. Unlike their immediate rivals at Ferrari and Mercedes, the Austrians decided not to use their actual car at their launch event,
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With the first day of pre-season testing in Bahrain complete, there are many talking points to be analysed and looked at in more detail. Every driver in attendance managed to take to the track other than Sergio Perez, who is schedule to jump into the cockpit of the RB19 from Friday afternoon onwards, as Red
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Mercedes technical director Andrew Shovlin believes the team’s former reserve driver Nyck de Vries “has the talent to win races” in Formula 1, given the “experience” that the Dutchman boasts. De Vries, of course, departed the Germans at the end of 2022 to take a race seat at AlphaTauri, meaning he’s entering the forthcoming season
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Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko is expecting the Milton Keynes-based side to be less “dominant” in the forthcoming season, with the expectation being amongst the team that Ferrari and Mercedes will have improved. The Austrians were dominant last year, with the side having claimed the Constructors’ Championship with relative ease, as did Max Verstappen
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With the regulations undergoing a major change at the start of last season, many teams took different approaches to their car designs to try and achieve the best performance possible. Some teams opted for detailed sidepods while some opted to not have any at all, leading to a lot of variation up and down the
MoreMercedes technical director Andrew Shovlin has admitted that he was surprised by how few options Nyck de Vries had for 2023, despite the fact he matched Williams’ best result of the season on his debut for the Grove-based team. There is no doubt that De Vries is very talented, with the 28-year-old having claimed the
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With season five of the hit Netflix Formula 1-based docuseries ‘Drive to Survive’ (DTS) just a matter of days away (launches February 24), producer Paul Martin has revealed who he believes could fill Daniel Ricciardo’s “role” on the show, with the Aussie having been a leading star of it. Since the show began, Ricciardo has
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With the 2023 season just under two weeks away, a noticeable figure won’t be lining up on the grid. After an abysmal 2022 campaign, Daniel Ricciardo opted to take a sabbatical from the forthcoming season, with the target being to return in 2024. The Aussie struggled for the bulk of his two years at McLaren
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