Despite being 27 years old, Nyck de Vries will complete his first full Formula 1 season in 2023, following his switch from being Mercedes’ reserve driver to AlphaTauri’s full-time competitor. The Dutchman will partner Yuki Tsunoda at the Faenza-based team, where he’ll be hoping to impress the Red Bull family, with a move to the
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Lewis Hamilton and George Russell would never have thought going into 2022 that they would win a single race between them in their first season together. Unfortunately for the two Mercedes drivers, the W13 was sent down the wrong development path by the Silver Arrows, who struggled to understand what was needed to get the
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The 2022 season is not one that Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes will look back on with much fondness in the future, as Mercedes limped to a third-place finish in the constructors’ championship. The Silver Arrows’ development pathway under the new regulations that came into effect at the start of the year presented the team with
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Having comfortably won both championships in 2022, Red Bull looked set for a season free of stress and controversy. This was not the case however as the Singapore Grand Prix brought with it accusations that the energy drink giants had spent more than the permitted $145m in 2021, following the introduction of the FIA’s budget
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Mercedes endured a horrific start to 2022, and it wasn’t just thanks to the new aerodynamic regulations which were introduced into the sport. The Silver Arrows were the worst hit team by the shocking porpoising phenomena, something which saw the Germans have to prioritise eradicating the issue, rather than car development. Whilst their porpoising issues were well documented,
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It has been a tough couple of years in Formula 1 for Lewis Hamilton, missing out on his record breaking eighth world championship in 2021 in controversial and heart breaking fashion, before being forced to drive an uncompetitive car in 2022 and watch his rivals pass him by. While this much disappointment would see many
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The FIA were forced to set a precedent earlier this year, as it was revealed that Red Bull had breached their new cost cap in the first year of its introduction to the sport. Teams had been limited to spending $145m over the course of the 2021 season and after investigation it was confirmed that
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The W13 has now officially been retired by Mercedes, with the team suggesting that while it was not one of their most successful designs in recent years, it could be one of the most important because of the lessons 2022 taught the team. The major shakeup in regulations at the start of the year gave
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Lewis Hamilton has admitted that he felt more “internal strength” in 2022 than “many other years”, with Mercedes having endured their toughest season of the hybrid era to-date. The seven-time World Champion is used to fighting for pole positions and victories on a Grand Prix basis, let alone third row starts and top-five finishes. Nobody
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With major changes to Formula 1’s rules and regulations coming in effect at the beginning of the 2022 season, teams were given the opportunity to be creative and design a car different from the rest in an attempt to gain an advantage. Some cars sported creative sidepod designs during some runs in pre-season testing and
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