The 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will proceed as planned despite Friday’s missile strike on an oil facility around 10 kilometres away from the Jeddah Corniche Circuit. Moments before the first practice session of the weekend was set to come to an end, colossal plumes of smoke were seen in the distance emanating from an
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Mercedes trackside engineer Andrew Shovlin has revealed that the team have found some solutions to the problems that have thus far hampered them in 2022. The eight-time constructors’ champions appeared to struggle during pre-season testing under the all-new technical regulations, in which ground effect has returned amid Formula 1’s attempt to facilitate better and closer
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Senior Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has been slammed for making a “totally inappropriate comment” about Sergio Perez and today’s missile strike in Saudi Arabia. Free Practice Two at the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was delayed after a missile, fired by Houthi militants in Yemen, struck close to the street circuit. Specifically, the
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Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali would like to open a dialogue with reigning world champion Max Verstappen about Netflix’s Drive to Survive docuseries, admitting there are things that need to be “redefined.” Drive to Survive first graced our screens in 2019 when it covered the 2018 season from the perspective of eight of the ten
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KFC had a brilliant response to Mercedes when they came up with a hilarious caption for the image of Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff peeping his head through the halo on George Russell’s car. Russell qualified ninth for the Bahrain Grand Prix in the opening race weekend of the 2022 season, a second behind Sir
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Chief technical officer at Aston Martin, Andy Green, has detailed the challenges the teams are facing to shed weight as they scramble for performance gains. The minimum weight limit for the cars under the new technical regulations was set at 795kg ahead of this season, but Alfa Romeo were reported to be the only team
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Mercedes are closing in on solutions to the issues that have adversely affected them in the early part of 2022, and could even find themselves in championship contention this year, according to a report. Mercedes have been one of the more perturbed teams by the “porpoising” issues caused by the new technical regulations, and they
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McLaren drivers Lando Norris laments the fact that the Mercedes power unit is struggling in comparison to Honda and Ferrari, but sees the silver lining in the fact that it also appears to be one of the more reliable packages. All six of the bottom cars in the final classification at the season-opening 2022 Bahrain
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has revealed the pressing reason he felt the need to jump off the parade bus ahead of the season-opening 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix. The drivers embarked on their customary tour of the circuit in Sakhir in a parade bus, as they waved to the fans and took questions from reporters, previewing the
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FIA President Mohammed ben Sulayem has provided an update on former race director Michael Masi, reiterating that the motorsport governing body still has plans for the Australian. Masi was removed as race director following the highly controversial events of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, when he reneged on an earlier call to allow a
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