There has been a lot of change in the paddock ahead of the 2023 season, with drivers, engineers and team principals all making moves between teams. Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, McLaren and Williams will all have a new team principal leading them this season and new Williams boss James Vowles is the most recent of these
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The relationship between Toto Wolff and Christian Horner is a fascinating one, with both team principals coming from very different backgrounds. The Mercedes boss is from much more of a financial background than his Red Bull counterpart, meaning that the approaches of the pair towards their teams are very different. The pair have come to
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Towards the end of the 2022 season, Lewis Hamilton and Toto Wolff both confirmed that they would be sitting down over the winter break to discuss a multi-year contract extension. Fans are slowly becoming concerned about the future of the 38-year-old however, as Hamilton is yet to extend his contract with the team, with only
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After spending five seasons working with the ever-loyal wingman Valtteri Bottas, Lewis Hamilton was forced to adapt to working with a new teammate in 2022. Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believed that from what he had seen of George Russell’s performances with Williams, he was finally ready to make the step up to Mercedes. In
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FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem cannot seem to keep himself out of hot water at the moment, with the 61-year-old’s Twitter activity in particular getting him in trouble. Ben Sulayem has recently been commenting about his views on the Andretti-Cadillac project as well as Saudi Arabia’s £20bn bid to take over Formula 1. These comments
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The race director role in Formula 1 is one that has been under a lot of scrutiny in recent seasons and once again, there will be two new appointments ahead of the 2023 season. Eduardo Freitas and Niels Wittich split the role in 2022 after the sacking of Michael Masi but after the pair both
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The takeover of Formula 1 by Liberty Media and the Netflix series ‘Drive to Survive’ have been a couple of the major factors that have seen the popularity of Formula 1 increase. The sport has become a major hit in the USA, after previously being overshadowed by IndyCar and NASCAR, while the growth of the
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The injustice of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix may have been two seasons ago, but the pain felt by Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes will certainly take a long while to go away. Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen entered the final round of the 2021 season level on points, meaning the season finale was a
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While Mattia Binotto’s resignation from Ferrari started a domino effect of team principal moves in the paddock, Jost Capito’s departure from Williams took everybody by surprise. The announcement that their team principal would be leaving came in December and it took until late January for Williams to finally appoint a replacement. The man that has
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has stressed that he would “never allow” an inter-team rivalry to affect the Brackley-based team, with many predicting that 2023 could see Lewis Hamilton versus George Russell for the championship. Should the Germans have a competitive car this year, then it would be safe to assume that Hamilton and Russell
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