The switch to 18-inch tyres was a major part of this year’s revised technical package, although they were often overlooked during the season as attention switched to porpoising and the aerodynamic impact of the new rules.However, Stella admits that the team wasn’t able to “mitigate” the impact of the new tyres as effectively as its […]
Year: 2022
The pressure awaiting MotoGP's reformed winner in 2023
The nine-time MotoGP race winner acrimoniously split with Yamaha midway through the 2021 season and found refuge at Aprilia.His adaptation to the RS-GP was initially very difficult, as Vinales had never ridden a bike in the premier class built around a V4 engine – which has completely different handling characteristics, and therefore requires a different […]
Response to “horrendous” Zhou crash just a human reaction
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Autosport 2022 Top 50: #4 Lewis Hamilton
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Alonso: Alpine F1 reliability struggles not comparable to McLaren-Honda
Alonso finished his second season since returning to F1 ninth in the championship, but rued a number of missed opportunities due to recurring reliability problems that emerged throughout the season.The Spaniard was open in his frustration about the problems Alpine faced at times, believing it had cost him dozens of points that resulted in a […]
Ranking the 10 greatest BMW Motorsport machines
For half a century, BMW’s motorsport division has been producing fantastic cars. It’s main areas of success have been on the road and in touring car racing, but it’s also taken big victories in sportscar competition and Formula 1.To help mark its 50th birthday, we decided to pick out the 10 best BMW Motorsport machines […]
F1 2022 Tech Review: Ferrari’s race-winner falls short in the end
However, a combination of poor reliability, strategy and driver errors, and rapid progress from Red Bull, meant that the team was unable to sustain its championship challenge for long enough.But although its title hopes faded, that did not stop it trying to continue to eke out performance from its 2022 challenger. Ferrari airbox detailPhoto by: […]
'Deserving' De Vries has character to succeed in F1 says McLaren FE boss
The Dutchman, a Formula E champion in the 2020-21 season with the Mercedes outfit, has earned a move to the AlphaTauri F1 squad to partner Yuki Tsunoda at the team.After impressing in his one-race cameo at Williams in 2022 as a late call-up to substitute for Alex Albon, de Vries sufficiently turned heads among Red […]
Williams opted against continuing F1 2022 development when P10 looked certain
After ending last year ninth in the standings, Williams slumped back to 10th place as it struggled to match the midfield teams for form across the course of the season.Alex Albon, Nicholas Latifi and one-race stand-in Nyck de Vries all managed to pick up points for Williams, but the total of eight for the season […]
Autosport 2022 Top 50: #5 George Russell
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