With the German manufacturer having been on a roll since the introduction of Formula 1’s turbo hybrid rules, it looks set, for the first time since 2014, not to win either championship this year. In fact, the struggles it has faced with its tricky W13 has meant it has not even won a race so
Month: August 2022
The Mercedes W13 struggled in qualifying at Spa, with Lewis Hamilton qualifying seventh some 1.8 seconds off Max Verstappen’s fastest time, and Russell earning eighth. Penalties for Verstappen and others saw the two silver cars actually start fourth and fifth, but Russell still anticipated a tough afternoon. However in the closing stages of the race
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Vettel announced at the Hungarian GP that he will leave F1 at the end of the 2022 season, and the team moved quickly to replace him with Fernando Alonso. Although he won’t reap any benefit personally, Vettel is still keen to help the team progress after a difficult season with the AMR22. Asked after the
Red Bull swept to a dominant victory in the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday as Max Verstappen charged from 14th on the grid to win ahead of team-mate Sergio Perez. The performance saw both Red Bull drivers display a mighty straightline speed, allowing Verstappen to ease past cars using DRS at the end of the
4:06 AM ET Lewis Hamilton literally put a cap on a verbal spat with Formula One rival Fernando Alonso in a teasing social media post on Tuesday. Alonso, a former team mate and fellow world champion, had branded the Briton an idiot after a first-lap collision at last Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix. Mercedes’ seven-times world
Schumacher’s original Ferrari Driver Academy contract will come to what one source called a ‘natural end’ after this season. Although there has been no confirmation from Haas, it’s accepted in the paddock that Schumacher won’t be retained by the US-owned team for a third season in 2023, with Antonio Giovinazzi currently a favourite to land
It was no different with the new generation of 2022 cars, but the Belgian Grand Prix highlighted some of the core strengths of the RB18 as it appeared to be quick on the straights but without hurting its pace in the twisty sector two. Red Bull also had a few new parts for Belgium to
The MP Motorsport driver currently leads the standings by 43 points from Theo Pourchaire, who is a member of Sauber’s junior academy. Having run three seasons in F2, Drugovich is now looking at his next steps for 2023, and believes that with “very limited” opportunities for a race seat in F1, a reserve seat may
McLaren endured one of its most difficult weekends of the 2022 season at Spa, with Norris finishing 12th and his team-mate Daniel Ricciardo a few seconds behind him in 15th. Both drivers were part of a train of cars that became stuck behind the Williams of Alex Albon, which was extremely fast on the straight.
The Razlan Razali-run outfit, which was rebranded as RNF Racing in 2022 following Petronas SRT’s exit at the end of last year, will sever ties with Yamaha at the conclusion of the current campaign. RNF will field year-old Aprilia machinery next year, with outgoing KTM riders Oliveira and his Tech3 counterpart Fernandez refreshing the team’s
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With the German car manufacturer still facing battles to understand the W13, whose form is wildly inconsistent, time is running out if the squad does want to do something completely different next year. But its choice is a tough one to make because it does not fully understand everything that has gone wrong with its
The Austrian had made a storming start to race two, moving up from sixth to second position behind Schubert Motorsport team-mate Sheldon van der Linde. The DTM points leader was carrying 25kg of success ballast after winning the opening race, with Eng appearing the faster of the two. But his chances of victory were thwarted
Mir had been linked to a move to Honda for much of this season, but that became a much greater probability when Suzuki announced it would be quitting MotoGP at the end of the 2022 campaign. The 2020 world champion said during the Austrian Grand Prix weekend that he was “very close” to agreeing a
The Zandvoort race is the middle leg of an intense F1 triple-header, with Max Verstappen returning to his home event fresh from a dominant victory at the Belgian GP. The reigning F1 world champion’s ninth win of the season puts him 93 points clear at the top of the standings from nearest rival and Red
Even from 14th on the grid, Verstappen was always tipped to get in the fight for victory such was his pace through the weekend. But it was a fight he won with relative ease, crossing the line 17 seconds clear of the field to extend his championship advantage to 93 points. It marked a significant
For the second year running the MotoGP star will make a one-off start in the domestic series. He will once again do so at The Bend for the ASBK season finale on 25-27 November riding a Thriller Racing-run Ducati. “I am looking forward to heading back to Adelaide to race in the Australian Superbike Championship
In a wild final stage, in which two multi-car crashes had already propagated, the final big incident resulting after rain had started to fall put Dillon into the lead. As the field entered Turn 1 on 138th lap, rain – which had already been threatening for several laps – began to fall hard and started
If it has been damaged too much to be used again, the seven-time world champion will have to take a grid penalty in the near future. Hamilton’s W13 landed heavily after he was launched when he made contact with Alonso on the first lap. Onboard footage from Alonso and other following cars showed fluid emerging
Formula 1 reconvened after its 2022 summer break with the annual late-August trip to Spa-Francorchamps. As we’ll cover later on, this event may well be hosted at a different time of the season for its one-year extension on the F1 calendar in 2023. But at the head of the grid it was business as usual.
KTM made its debut in MotoGP in 2017 with a factory entry before expanding to a satellite structure in partnership with Tech3 from the 2019 campaign. In its six seasons in the premier class, KTM has scored six victories between Miguel Oliveira and Brad Binder. But KTM still languishes behind its European rivals in Ducati
With 22 laps remaining in Sunday’s regular season finale at Daytona International Speedway, a massive pile-up at the first corner triggered by falling rain led to most of the lead-lap cars being wiped out. The race was red-flagged after this as the rain intensified at the time. Austin Dillon came through the chaos at the
6:56 AM ET The FIA hearing to settle the contract dispute between Alpine and McLaren over Formula 2 champion Oscar Piastri started on Monday. Over the summer break, Alpine released a statement confirming Piastri would replace Fernando Alonso in 2023, only for the Australian to later tweet that he had no contract with Alpine and
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Between the Austrian and Hungarian Grands Prix, the team made a 365km road trip from Leoben in Austria to Budapest in Hungary. Our final destination, the Hilton Garden Inn Budapest City Centre, will be our home away from home for the Hungarian GP weekend. Check out some of the ways that they’re keeping us safe,
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While Ferrari has managed to be in the mix for victory at most races this season, Spa saw the team stand little chance of beating Red Bull. Max Verstappen charged from 14th on the grid to win the race by more than 17 seconds, leading home Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez for a 1-2 finish.
Leclerc’s hopes of charging through the pack at Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday in the wake of his engine grid penalty were dashed early on when he was forced to pit on lap three after seeing smoke coming up from his front-right brake duct. At the stop, where he changed tyres, Ferrari discovered the problem had been
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