With Mercedes having won every championship since 2014 going into the 2021 season, the FIA decided that they would need to intervene to prevent the gap between the bigger teams and the smaller teams becoming too large. A budget cap of $145m was introduced in 2021 in order to prevent the bigger teams such as
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The 2022 season was much more straightforward for Max Verstappen than the previous campaign, as he cruised to his second consecutive world championship title under the new regulations. The Dutchman won a record shattering 15 races last year as Mercedes and Ferrari struggled to even lay a glove on Red Bull for the majority of
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The start of the 2022 season saw teams either delighted or disappointed with the development path that they had chosen following the major changes in regulations that came into effect. Red Bull’s RB-18 was initially overweight but after shifting the excess mass, the team had one of the most dominant pieces of machinery in Formula
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has joked that ex-Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel is “annoyingly good at anything”, with the Brit believing that the German would make a “very good” addition to a team’s management. When Vettel’s retirement from F1 was announced prior to the Hungarian Grand Prix last year, the likes of Lewis
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Double World Champion Max Verstappen has expressed how important the “weight of the car” is with the new aerodynamic regulations, with the Dutchman having struggled with the RB18 during its early life. Considering how tightly fought the start of last season was, it’s incredible just how dominant Verstappen went on to be, with the 25-year-old
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Ex-Formula 1 driver Mark Webber has warned fellow Australian Daniel Ricciardo that his one-year sabbatical will likely “feel longer” than a year for him, but that it could actually be something that works in the 33-year-old’s favour. Ricciardo finds himself on the bench for 2023 after opting to take a year out of F1 to
MoreRed Bull team principal Christian Horner has admitted that the Milton Keynes-based team will forever be “selective” about what companies they partner with, as a result of a company needing to be the “right fit” for the Austrians. Since joining Formula 1 in 2005, Red Bull have also been incredibly careful with who they partner
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner is certain that Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez will overcome their differences and “work as a team”, with the Brit confident that the pair’s Interlagos incident won’t carry over into 2023. The Brazilian Grand Prix certainly wasn’t a race to remember for the Austrians, as they slumped towards the
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Sebastian Montoya has become the third new signing to the Red Bull Junior Team, after the team previously announced the signings of Zane Maloney and Enzo Fittipaldi. The 17-year-old is the son of former Williams and McLaren driver Juan Pablo Montoya, who took part in 95 Grand Prix during his time during Formula 1, winning
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has admitted that he did consider re-signing Nyck de Vries, who is set to become a star for Red Bull. The 2019 F2 World Champion and Season Seven Formula E World Champion grabbed AlphaTauri’s attention following his shock points finish at the Italian Grand Prix, after filling in for the
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