Red Bull’s head of race engineering, Guillaume Rocquelin, is reportedly set to depart after this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix following 16 years at the team. After four years as a senior race engineer at Newman/Haas in the CART series, the Frenchman joined Red Bull in 2006 and became race engineer for David Coulthard until the
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Charles Leclerc has praised former Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel ahead of the Aston Martin driver’s return to action at this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix. Leclerc and Vettel spent two seasons together in 2019 and 2020, with the Monegasque outqualifying the four-time champion 25 times in 38 races. Following a “dream” 2019 season that yielded 10
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Mercedes driver George Russell was not particularly impressed with Red Bull during the first practice session in Melbourne as two of his laps were hindered by the Milton Keynes-based team. The drivers took to the Albert Park Circuit for the first time since 2019 after the races in 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to
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Ferrari have done the best job of mitigating the power deficit that comes with the new fuel blend, according to a report. As well as new ground effect aerodynamics this year, the technical regulations have seen the arrival of a brand-new E10 fuel blend which is made up of 90 percent fossil fuels and 10
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of Alberta came up with an interesting way of reminding road users to follow the speed limit. The 2022 Formula 1 season heads to Melbourne for this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, with Max Verstappen having won last time out in Saudi Arabia. Four speeding cases have been tried thus
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McLaren driver Daniel Ricciardo has responded to Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner’s criticism about his decision to leave the team for Renault in 2018. In an interview with The Weekend Australian, Horner claimed that “Daniel could see Max in the ascendancy, and he didn’t want to become the second driver.” Furthermore, Horner believes
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Earlier this week, we explored if Lando Norris might be the better option for Red Bull than Sergio Perez and Pierre Gasly, but could George Russell’s name be thrown into the mix as well? Russell signed for Mercedes over the winter to replace the departing Valtteri Bottas having scored points four times for the struggling
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Red Bull ace Max Verstappen has launched more criticism at Netflix docuseries Drive to Survive in the wake of its fourth season. The show documents the behind-the-scenes activities of the teams and drivers, and it has encouraged the awakening of a new demographic in Formula 1, particularly in the United States. Season four attracted was
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FIA head of single-seater technical matters, Nikolas Tombazis, has reiterated that the governing body will not allow any skirting of the financial regulations. Along with new technical regulations this year has come a more stringent budget cap which has forced teams to adopt a more circumspect approach to how they bring upgrades to their cars.
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Red Bull have arrived in Melbourne for this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix with a new rear wing, while Mercedes appear to have stuck with the same wing they used in Saudi Arabia last month. The Silver Arrows have been trying to negotiate their way around the “porpoising” issue which has been adversely affecting their performance
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