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Mercedes’ motorsport strategy director James Vowles says the Formula 1 team put its drivers in “significant discomfort” during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend and must “make sure this doesn’t carry on”. Seven-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton described the ...

Mercedes confirms Hamilton will race in Montreal despite back pain

The Mercedes Formula 1 team has confirmed that Lewis Hamilton will not miss the upcoming Canadian Grand Prix despite suffering from back pain. Throughout the most recent race weekend in Azerbaijan, Mercedes’ W13 car was bouncing severely on the ...

What F1 should expect at Kyalami – from those who’ve raced there

Formula 1 drivers will love the Kyalami circuit if the South African Grand Prix is to return to the F1 calendar next season after a 30-year absence, but some doubt has been cast on whether good racing will be ...

Hill: Alonso ‘up to his old tricks’ in Baku during qualifying

1996 Formula 1 World Champion Damon Hill believes that Fernando Alonso was “up to his old tricks” during qualifying in Baku last weekend. Williams’ Alexander Albon accused the Spaniard of deliberately causing a yellow flag at the end of ...

10 times F1 drivers didn’t see out their contracts

SERGIO PEREZ – RACING POINT AYRTON SENNA – TOLEMAN NIKITA MAZEPIN – HAAS ANDREA DE CESARIS – LIGIER RALF SCHUMACHER – JORDAN ALAIN PROST – RENAULT HEINZ-HARALD FRENTZEN – JORDAN FERNANDO ALONSO – FERRARI VALTTERI BOTTAS – WILLIAMS KIMI ...

Presence, authenticity, insight – boxes new F1 face really ticks

“There’s a lot of people that say that I’m there for box-ticking reasons and I don’t think that that’s why I’m here. I think I tick a lot of other boxes that just the one everyone wants to say ...

Caldwell set for maiden F1 test run with Alpine

Alpine-backed youngster Olli Caldwell is set for his maiden Formula 1 test at British Grand Prix venue Silverstone on Wednesday. Caldwell joined Alpine’s roster of juniors for 2022 off the back of finishing eighth in last year’s Formula 3 ...

Tentative lights out and away we go for Kyalami Grand Prix

Image: @izimoto_auto A figurative news storm has been brewing at South Africa’s premier race track for quite some time now but it seems that we are closer than ever to the good news of hosting a Formula 1 event ...

Technical Insight: A closer look at Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes’ Baku updates

The annual Azerbaijan GP appointment is becoming of greater importance from a technical point of view. This year on the Baku circuit we have seen many technical innovations, even more so with this new generation of 2022 cars, which ...

‘Rattled’ Ricciardo backs up validity of Russell’s FIA lobbying

McLaren Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo said driving in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was like “being dribbled by [basketball star] Stephen Curry”, lending credence to Mercedes and its drivers’ suggestion that the 2022 cars’ bouncing can be a widespread ...

Vettel: Top five challenge possible without mistake

Sebastian Vettel (GER) Aston Martin F1 Team AMR22. Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Sunday 12th June 2022. Baku City Circuit, Azerbaijan. Sebastian Vettel believes he could have challenged Pierre Gasly for fifth at Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix without his mistake. ...

Bottas’ Baku mystery prompts Alfa to ‘change as much as we can’

Alfa Romeo is set to “change as much as much as we can” on Valtteri Bottas’s Alfa Romeo C42 after a mysterious lack of performance ruined his Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend. Bottas was only 11th in the Baku race ...

Gary Anderson: How F1 can regulate away bouncing

Formula 1’s problems with porpoising and bouncing reached an all-together new high during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend. Just look at Lewis Hamilton ‘doing a Nigel Mansell’ post-race and crawling out of his car with a bad back. My ...

F1 22 preview: What to expect from the unorthodox new features

You could almost be forgiven for thinking, given much of the marketing material from Codemasters and EA, that Formula 1 isn’t the main focus in F1 22. That’s because the new F1 Life mode and complementary supercars have been ...

Judging Mc Laren’s Alpine-influenced Baku team orders

TEAM ORDERS PART ONE TEAM ORDERS PART TWO COULD MCLAREN HAVE DONE BETTER? WHAT THEY SAID McLaren’s use of team orders was one of the talking points of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, with Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris spending ...

Norris: Mercedes not willing to sacrifice pace to stop bouncing

Lando Norris says that Mercedes is not willing to sacrifice performance in a bid to solve the bouncing issue its car is suffering from. Both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell noted that they were in pain throughout the Azerbaijan ...

Formula 1 ramping up talks over South Africa 2023 return

Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB18 leads at the start of the race. Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Sunday 12th June 2022. Baku City Circuit, Azerbaijan. Formula 1 is striving to include South Africa on its 2023 calendar, amid further ...

Piastri closing on deal to drive for Williams in F1 2023

Oscar Piastri is closing in on a deal to drive for Williams in Formula 1 next season, with his debut potentially confirmed by the end of the month. The Alpine test and reserve driver is one of F1’s most ...

Hamilton ‘wouldn’t miss Canada for the world’

Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1. Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Sunday 12th June 2022. Baku City Circuit, Azerbaijan. Lewis Hamilton has distanced himself from suggestions that he could be a doubt for this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix following back pain ...

Edd Straw’s 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix F1 driver ratings

Formula 1’s visits to Baku rarely disappoint, and the 2022 race was no different – even if Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix did include a major blow for one title contender as his main rival romped to another win. Edd ...

Latifi frustrated by severity of grid infringement penalty

Nicholas Latifi (CDN) Williams Racing FW44 on the grid. Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Sunday 12th June 2022. Baku City Circuit, Azerbaijan. Nicholas Latifi expressed frustration at the severity of the penalty he received for a grid infraction prior to Formula ...

Horner explains ‘no fighting’ call for Red Bull drivers

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN – JUNE 12: Sergio Perez of Mexico driving the (11) Oracle Red Bull Racing RB18 on track during the F1 Grand Prix of Azerbaijan at Baku City Circuit on June 12, 2022 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by ...

Gasly: Fighting Mercedes shows strength of AlphaTauri

Pierre Gasly (FRA) AlphaTauri AT03. Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Sunday 12th June 2022. Baku City Circuit, Azerbaijan. Pierre Gasly praised AlphaTauri after he collected his and the team’s best result of the 2022 season at Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. ...

Ferrari’s lack of answers does not bode well for F1 title bid

Ferrari admits it must still make “another step” as a team to fight for Formula 1 titles after a disastrous double-DNF in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix cost Charles Leclerc another victory. Leclerc and team-mate Carlos Sainz retired from the ...

Mark Hughes: Why it wasn’t Perez who capitalised on Ferrari woe

The Ferrari guys weren’t even looking on as the two Red Bulls – Max Verstappen ahead – pulled into the 1 and 2 slots in Azerbaijan Grand Prix parc ferme. They were busy packing up, hadn’t had a car ...

Bottas sure ‘something fundamentally wrong’ with car in Baku

Valtteri Bottas (FIN) Alfa Romeo F1 Team C42. Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Sunday 12th June 2022. Baku City Circuit, Azerbaijan. Valtteri Bottas believes there was something “fundamentally wrong” with his Alfa Romeo C42 after a subdued performance in Azerbaijan. Bottas ...

Verstappen wins in Baku as Leclerc suffers engine failure

Mark Thompson/Getty Images World champion Max Verstappen led a Red Bull 1-2 in Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix in a potentially key moment of the title race after pole-sitter Charles Leclerc and Ferrari endured another dose of misery with a ...

Wolff: Hamilton could miss Canada F1 weekend over back pain

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has admitted concern that Lewis Hamilton could miss next weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix due to discomfort in his back. Hamilton, as well as team-mate George Russell, have complained of back pain throughout the weekend ...

Hamilton feared ‘most painful’ Baku F1 race would end in crash

Lewis Hamilton described the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as the “most painful” race of his Formula 1 career and said he was genuinely concerned his back discomfort would prevent him from finishing. The Mercedes drivers have complained vociferously about the ...

Horner: Rival F1 teams urging drivers to moan about bouncing

Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Christian Horner believes rival team chiefs are deliberately encouraging their drivers to make a big fuss about the ride quality of the 2022 F1 cars. Horner, speaking after the Baku race his Red ...

Verstappen on Leclerc’s Baku DNF: ‘S**t happens’

Max Verstappen has provided his thoughts on Charles Leclerc’s retirement from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, hinting he has little sympathy for the Ferrari driver. Leclerc was leading the race when a hydraulics issue forced him to return to the ...

Hamilton: Azerbaijan GP ‘my most painful race in F1’

Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 holds his back in parc ferme at the end of the race. Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Sunday 12th June 2022. Baku City Circuit, Azerbaijan. Lewis Hamilton described the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as his most ...

Winners and losers from F1’s 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

Max Verstappen George Russell Pierre Gasly Sebastian Vettel Daniel Ricciardo Charles Leclerc Yuki Tsunoda Kevin Magnussen Alfa Romeo The Azerbaijan Grand Prix delivered another twist in the 2022 Formula 1 title tale as Ferrari suffered a miserable double-DNF and ...

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