Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko believes that the team have been able to diagnose the power unit issue that saw Max Verstappen qualify 10th in Hungary. Coming into a race where Ferrari were expected to be quicker, Verstappen looked to be giving the Scuderia a run for their money during the first two qualifying sessions,
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Red Bull and Ferrari do not believe that Charles Leclerc’s accident at last weekend’s French Grand Prix was at all related to “porpoising” and bouncing. The phenomenon has appeared this season amid the arrival of the new technical regulations, which have brought about the return of ground effect aerodynamics. It meant a complete change to
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Former Formula 1 drivers, Anthony Davidson and Johnny Herbert, were stunned as Sergio Perez sneezed several times behind the wheel of his Red Bull in Hungary. As he headed down the main straight during practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix, Perez let out a thunderous sneeze over the radio before his engineer, Hugh Bird, said
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Former Formula 1 driver Johnny Herbert took not too kindly to Max Verstappen’s comments about Sir Lewis Hamilton after the pair’s tense rivalry last season. Verstappen and Hamilton went hell for leather last year as they won 18 of the 22 races between them, and there were plenty of controversial moments. They notably came together
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Daniel Ricciardo’s career is one of those that leaves the question “what could’ve been?”, with the Australian now accustomed to battling for a points place, rather than a podium. A points finish has been a rarity for the McLaren F1 Team driver this season, who has massively underperformed alongside the incredibly reliable Lando Norris. Ricciardo’s
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Red Bull’s Sergio Perez has conceded that the RB18 is not suiting him quite as well as it was at the beginning of the season, which would explain his recent downturn in form. The Mexican has out-qualified Max Verstappen three times this season, but he has not done so since the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, where
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Red Bull driver Max Verstappen has affirmed that the drivers cannot change the attitude of some of the fans by themselves; there are a great number of people who need to step in and help. At the Austrian Grand Prix earlier this year, there were a number of reports of fans getting drunk and abusing
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Carlos Sainz recovered brilliantly at the French Grand Prix, having started on the last row of the grid at the Circuit Paul Ricard. The Spaniard was slapped with numerous grid penalties, after being forced into taking new engine components following his Austrian Grand Prix blow-up. Despite this, the Spanish driver recovered to finish in fifth
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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko has confirmed that his team are planning to bring more upgrades to their 2022 car as they look to seal the championship. Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, between them, have won eight of the opening 12 rounds of the season, and have established a dominant advantage over Ferrari as
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Porsche are understood to have filed applications to get the go-ahead for a deal with Red Bull that sees the German car maker obtain half ownership of the team. Rumours have been circulating for months that Volkswagen were looking to enter Formula 1, and their subsidiaries – Porsche and Audi – were the main subjects.
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