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Tsunoda: Difficult but pleasing to handle F1 “heating moments” without ranting on the radio

Since joining Formula 1 back in 2021 Yuki Tsunoda has gained quite the reputation for being rather unfiltered in team radios. Over the years his race engineer Mattia Spini has heard quite a few complaints from the Japanese driver, the last being just at the beginning of this new season. It was towards the end…

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“Honestly thought that this year we would start a lot stronger” — Ricciardo reflects on tough opening to 2024 F1 season

Home race for Daniel Ricciardo last weekend in Melbourne, one that had not started out so well, with him qualifying at the very back in P18 — out of 19 drivers, as Logan Sargeant had to sit out and give his car to teammate Alex Albon. To try and make up for it on race…

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Vasseur after Sainz’s “fantastic job” in F1 Australian GP: “We agreed together to push until the last lap of the season”

“Life is a rollercoaster.”  This way chirped on the radio to his race engineer Riccardo Adami, a grinning Carlos Sainz after winning the Australian Grand Prix with a brilliant performance. A rollercoaster indeed, as only two weeks ago he was forced to sit out of the Saudi Arabian GP and spend Sunday in the hospital…

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Alonso: AMR24 has “lap to lap inconsistency” as he qualifies P10 with damage for F1 Australian GP

After a good round in Jeddah, in which he qualified P4 and finished P5 ahead of George Rusell’s Mercedes in the race, Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin seem to be struggling quite a bit this weekend in Melbourne. Free practice had started with a P18 in the first session following a big moment at turn…

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Ricciardo is optimist RB can “shuffle its way towards the front,” after missing out on Q3 in Bahrain

A rather promising track debut for the VCARB 01 as Daniel Ricciardo closed the first day of testing in P4, paired with Lando Norris’ McLaren and Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari, only 1.2s off Max Verstappen and his RB20. The car – at least at first glance – seems to have everything to battle it off with…

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Talks with Ferrari were going on the “right path” for a new contract before Hamilton’s unexpected announcement, says Sainz

Formula 1 is back on track today for the first time this season, testing the new single seaters around the Bahrain International Circuit, after what was quite the winter break.  While Red Bull was taken by the Horner’s saga, all eyes at Ferrari were on no one other than Sir Lewis Hamilton, who was suddenly…

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