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Red Bull is evaluating whether it can effectively implement a Mercedes-style sidepod design in Formula 1. Based in Milton Keynes, the team has taken a radical approach to transforming its car this year, incorporating features similar to those used by Mercedes in the past. This redesign includes high gulleys along the engine cover and t…
Sergio Pérez dismissed Fernando Alonso’s idea to extend testing to four days given the already “brutal” calendar
With Lewis Hamilton set to walk through Maranello’s doors next year and Carlos Sainz leaving, there has been suggestions that Ferrari will view this year as a transition year so that the car can develop further for when Hamilton arrives and the Italian team can return to title-competing ways. Fred Vasseur, Team Principal at Ferrari,…
Charles Leclerc expresses his confidence in the leadership of Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur ahead of the Maranello based outfit’s 2024 Formula 1 campaign. Despite a far from ideal first season at the helm of Ferrari, team principal Fred Vasseur has garnered the support of the team’s star driver Charles Leclerc. The young Monegasque driver…
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The Formula 1 Corporation and the International Automobile Federation (FIA) have noted Red Bull’s investigation into team principal Christian Horner. News broke early January that Horner was being investigated for “inappropriate behavior,” prompting a lot of speculation online about it. Red Bull decided to make no further comments until an independent investigation into the matter…
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It was quite an astonishing season for Lando Norris in 2023, arguably his best one so far in Formula 1. Things hadn’t started out well for McLaren with both drivers suffering technical issues as soon as the first race in Bahrain, but they got down to work in Woking and turned a struggling MCL60 around…
Christian Horner believes Red Bull’s new 2024 F1 car, the RB20, carries some “great innovation” despite some clear resemblance with Mercedes’ ‘zero-pod’ concept. It marks a significant departure from what the team ran in 2023, despite the RB19 winning all bar one race last season, in what he described is not a “conservative” evolution. The…
