Christian Horner has revealed that a lucrative offer was put in front of Daniel Ricciardo in 2018, and cited one of the Australian’s reasons for leaving as being a fear of lack of performance from Honda. Ricciardo won seven races in five seasons with Red Bull, finishing on the podium at his home race in
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo is both excited and apprehensive ahead of his home race in Australia. Formula 1 has been forced to miss each of the last two scheduled grand prix in Melbourne owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning that the 32-year-old had to stay away from his home country for almost 20 months, resulting in
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Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel has suggested that any pressure on Max Verstappen will have been alleviated now that he has won a world title, and he does not believe the Dutchman will feel the weight of the champion label. Verstappen claimed 10 wins and took 18 podiums in 2021 en route to one of
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Former Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean has revealed that he would not have taken the opportunity to return to the sport with Haas, insisting that he has now moved on. Grosjean signed for Haas in 2016 having managed 10 podiums between 2012 and 2015 with Lotus, and scored points on 24 occasions with the American
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Kevin Magnussen’s sensational return to Haas in 2022 has been confirmed, and he will be in the car during the second pre-season test in Bahrain. The Dane signed for the Banbury squad in 2017 having spent two seasons in the sport with McLaren and Renault in 2014 and 2016. He and Romain Grosjean managed 40
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Former Renault team principal Flavio Briatore is expected to make a return to Formula 1 this year in a commercial capacity. The Italian left F1 part-way through the 2009 season after he was initially banned for life following the “Crashgate Scandal”, in which Nelson Piquet Jr was instructed to collide with the barrier on purpose
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McLaren CEO Zak Brown has said that Red Bull can be rather cutthroat with their decisions to axe drivers, and believes that many of them weren’t given enough time to succeed. Since 2016, Daniil Kvyat, Pierre Gasly and Alex Albon have all been dropped from the Red Bull senior team, which is in part due
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Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz predicts that pre-season testing will be a little different this year due to the brand-new regulations. Formula 1’s technical regulations have undergone sweeping alterations ahead of the 2022 season, as ground effect returns leading to the vast reduction of aerodynamic efficiency. Further, the tyres have increased by five inches to 18,
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Formula 1 reserve driver Nico Hulkenberg says that, while he initially had reservations about appearing in Netflix’s Drive to Survive docuseries, he has “no regrets whatsoever” about his role in seasons one and two. Netflix first sent film crews out to the F1 paddock in 2018, and documented the highs, lows and everything in between
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McLaren driver Daniel Ricciardo maintains that he does not regret his move away from Red Bull after watching their championship success last year with Max Verstappen. Ricciardo joined the Formula 1 paddock in 2011 as a Red Bull junior driver on loan to HRT, and he made his debut at the British Grand Prix that
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