Very few people in the world can truly tell you what it takes to be a world champion in Formula 1. A truly magnificent level of talent, a terrific mindset, and a tremendous amount of will and determination are just some of the attributes that the very best possess, as well as… aim? Indeed, Max
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Prior to the Belgian Grand Prix, many had predicted that the FIA’s technical directive would see Red Bull Racing and Ferrari drop closer to Mercedes; however, with Max Verstappen winning his ninth race of the season by 17.8 seconds, this clearly wasn’t the case. The FIA clamped down on porpoising at the Belgian Grand Prix, by measuring how
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Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, has confirmed that the team did not bring a new chassis to the Belgian Grand Prix after their dominant performance. The Austrian side were generally expected to be quick at Spa due to the high-speed nature of the circuit and the long periods of full-throttle driving. 70 percent of
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The last few years have not been easy for Ferrari, and while they initially brought criticism upon themselves this season, that has now turned into savage mockery. This season started off so well for the team in red; they took their first win and one-two since 2019 in Bahrain in the opening round of 2022,
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Mattia Binotto thinks that Red Bull could be exceeding the budget cap, and that the FIA aren’t monitoring the matter closely enough. Ferrari and Red Bull started the 2022 campaign fairly evenly matched, but the latter team have now pulled ahead in terms of both points and pace. That was abundantly clear to see at
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Max Verstappen’s Red Bull engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, had a hilarious response to his driver when he noted that there were no yellow flags during practice for the Belgian Grand Prix. Red Bull were not pleased when Verstappen was given a five-second penalty in Qatar last season after traversing a yellow flag, but going flat-out anyway.
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Red Bull Racing chief advisor Dr Helmut Marko believes that Max Verstappen will retain his World Drivers’ Championship with “two or three” more wins, which could realistically see the Dutchman win the championship at the first fly-away race following the European races. After claiming his ninth victory of the season at the Belgian Grand Prix,
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Pierre Gasly is set to replace Fernando Alonso at Alpine at the end of the year, after senior Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko said the team would be willing to release him from his contract. Gasly made his Formula 1 debut with Red Bull’s sister team, Scuderia Toro Rosso as it was then called,
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Christian Horner has joked that the success Red Bull are enjoying is largely thanks to Toto Wolff. After spending last season very much evenly matched with Mercedes, Red Bull have pulled away this year, with their 2022 car much faster than their rivals’. Some felt that was the case in the first half of the
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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc has noticed that Sir Lewis Hamilton’s rivalry with Max Verstappen’s was different to his own. Verstappen and Hamilton took an astonishing 18 wins between them in 2021 as the Dutchman dramatically beat his rival to the crown on the very last lap of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. During the campaign, they
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