It’s no secret that weight is everything in Formula 1, but also that F1 cars have been getting heavier over time too. In 2022 the cars are comfortably the heaviest in the championship’s history and this gain can typically be explained by increased safety features in recent years (the halo weighs 7kg, for example). Across […]
The German manufacturer has endured a tough start to the 2022 campaign, with its porpoising W13 proving to be no match for the pace-setting Ferrari and Red Bull cars.Its season hit a low at Imola last weekend as neither of its drivers made it through to Q3 in qualifying, and Lewis Hamilton endured a torrid […]
On Ferrari’s home turf, Sainz had been eager to get a good result under his belt after the disappointment of his early exit from the Australian Grand Prix. But it all went wrong within seconds of the Emilia Romagna start after Ricciardo tagged Sainz at the first chicane and pitched him off into the gravel […]
Szafnauer says that the A522 again demonstrated good one lap pace, even if was not so evident in either the sprint or the main race. Fernando Alonso trialled a new floor through the weekend which appeared to work well, and contributed to him qualifying fifth. However the Spaniard dropped back with tyre graining in the […]
The veteran Spaniard currently sits third in the championship and just three points from joint leaders Fabio Quartararo and Alex Rins, after claiming his second podium of the campaign in third in last weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix. Espargaro stormed to his first grand prix victory and Aprilia’s first in the modern MotoGP era in Argentina, […]
That has been the case in 2022 too, with an original design idea that emerged on the Aston Martin AMR22 now having been copied by Red Bull after rival Ferrari had also taken note ahead of its launch. Aston Martin AMR22 splitter detail at launch Photo by: Aston Martin Racing At the reveal of the […]
On an Imola weekend where Verstappen was the class of the field, Hamilton endured one of his most difficult weekends since he joined Mercedes as he qualified outside the top ten and came home 13th. That performance was in stark contrast to last year where Verstappen and Hamilton regularly battled for victories during a campaign where tensions erupted at […]
Albon was sidelined by a brake issue in qualifying on Friday, forcing him to start at the back of the field for the sprint race where he could only move up to 18th. But after Williams rolled the dice by making him one of the first drivers to switch from intermediate to slick tyres in […]
The original plan was an increase from the three staged in 2021 to six this season, but that was derailed by a debate over the financial implications amid a tighter budget cap. As a result, there will again be three sprints this year, with last weekend’s Imola event to be followed by Austria and Brazil. […]
Following a meeting of the F1 Commission in London, plans by F1 owner Liberty Media to increase the number of sprint events met little resistance from teams. But, when the matter came down to getting the majority support it needed, the unanimous backing from the competitors and FOM was not enough to push the matter through […]