AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost believes that Yuki Tsunoda can go on to enjoy a successful career in Formula 1 following a rocky opening season. Tsunoda was introduced to the Red Bull junior team as a Honda-backed driver in 2021, and got his rookie season off to a good start, scoring points in the opening
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Red Bull’s ruthlessness has become a prominent talking point when considering their future driver line-ups and, with Sergio Perez out of contract at the end of this season, there’s a chance he could be sacked. A few names can be thrown into the hat, and a few more names would likely love to be thrown
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has taken to social media to welcome back Sebastian Vettel after the German’s COVID-enforced absence from the opening two rounds of the 2022 Formula 1 season. Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, 10 drivers have tested positive for the virus, and seven of them – excluding Pierre Gasly, Lando Norris
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One of the more gratifying features of 1 April is watching people get caught out by April Fools’ announcements, particularly ones in the sporting world. Some are outstanding. They bait a great many sports fans, only to find out that they were a perfectly executed joke, or that they were posted by a parody account.
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Dr Helmut Marko has not ruled out the possibility that Red Bull may opt to bring Pierre Gasly back into the main fold, thus leaving Sergio Perez out of a seat. Gasly spent 12 races alongside Max Verstappen in 2019 at Red Bull, and found himself out-qualified 11 times, while failing to get on the
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Former Formula 1 driver Gerhard Berger insists that Pierre Gasly deserves another go at Red Bull after his exceptional performances with Scuderia AlphaTauri. Gasly earned a chance at the Red Bull team after scoring points five times in 2018, including a fourth-placed finish in Bahrain, helping him to a fifteenth-placed Drivers’ Championship finish. However, his
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has revealed that there is still an element of apprehension surrounding the team’s engine after several failures in the early part of 2022. Red Bull were set to start making their own powertrains after he departure of Honda at the end of 2021, but it was confirmed over the
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Pierre Gasly was “screaming” in agony during the latter stages of the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix due to pain on the left side of his abdomen, and is relieved to have made it to the end of the grand prix in eighth. The Frenchman spent much of the race battling with the McLaren pair
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A former Red Bull engineer has brilliantly memed his old team after their devastating double retirement at last weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Having qualified second and fourth respectively, Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez looked set to finish in those positions while the Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was in the lead. However, a series of calamities would
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Red Bull driver Sergio Perez believes that there is a case to be made for drivers still being able to compete even if they have tested positive for COVID-19. Perez was the first of 10 drivers to have tested positive for coronavirus since the turn of the pandemic in 2020, and he was thus forced
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