Carlos Sainz rescued some dignity for Ferrari at the Belgian Grand Prix, but still finished the race well behind both Red Bull Racing drivers. Due to Max Verstappen’s grid penalty, Sainz was gifted pole at Spa-Francorchamps. The Spaniard made an excellent start to the race and quickly built a gap of just over a second to Sergio
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Ferrari team principal, Mattia Binotto, has been left wondering if Red Bull are complying with the financial regulations this season. Charles Leclerc won two of the opening three races as Red Bull struggled to find their feet, suffering three reliability failures between Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez. Leclerc led the Drivers’ Standings, while he and
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It is partly comical, but mainly tiring for Ferrari now after yet another embarrassing moment on the pit wall during qualifying in Belgium. Leclerc went into the weekend knowing that he had grid penalty for using too many engine parts. He will join Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, Mick Schumacher, Esteban Ocon, Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri
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Charles Leclerc needs the best second half performance of his life, should he wish to be crowned the 2022 Drivers’ Champion. With nine races remaining, he sits 80 points behind Max Verstappen, who can miss the entire triple-header and still lead the standings by at least two points. Leclerc needs things to start going in
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo remains optimistic that his career has a few years left amid uncertainty over his future. The Australian has struggled to settle in at McLaren since he joined at the start of last season, and it has appeared difficult for him to find common ground with his car. His victory in Monza last
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Red Bull are planning to introduce a lighter chassis during the final stages of the season in a move that will help them get closer to the 798kg minimum mass. The weight of the cars was one of the big talking points when the new technical regulations materialised, particularly when it transpired that Alfa Romeo
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If you had told Mercedes after the first four rounds of the season that they would be in a position to pressure Ferrari going into the last nine races, they likely would have bitten your hand off. 2022 did not kick off well for the reigning and eight-time constructors’ champions, who had just come off
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The opening lap of the British Grand Prix was terrifying to say the least, after rookie Guanyu Zhou suffered one of the worst crashes in the history of the sport, where he slid upside down through the gravel trap before flipping over the barrier. Zhou’s crash obviously brought out an immediate red flag, with the
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner is confident that Sergio Perez can bounce back from his rough patch of late. The Mexican out-qualified team-mate Max Verstappen twice in a row in Monaco and Baku earlier this season having previously taken pole position in Jeddah. Perez was unlucky to be denied his first win of the
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Max Verstappen takes an enormous lead into the second half of the season, after winning eight of the thirteen races completed this season. The reigning World Champion leads Charles Leclerc by 80 points, a margin that should be considerably smaller had it not been for Ferrari’s strategic incompetence. Leclerc has lost the race lead and arguably a
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