Dutch group Mobilisation for the Environment is calling for the F1 race in Zandvoort to have its permit revoked due to environmental damage. The Dutch Grand Prix returned to the calendar in 2021 and proved to be a hugely popular event, with the tickets selling out and the atmosphere widely praised. Not everyone is a fan of the event though, […]

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Fernando Alonso has confirmed the surgery he was planning for January after last year’s cycling accident has already taken place. And that was the reason why he was only managing, and not driving for, a team in the Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend. The Spaniard revealed at the end of the 2021 season that his main priority […]

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A Ferrari junior is not at Alfa Romeo in 2022, but team boss Frederic Vasseur has not ruled out using Scuderia-affiliated drivers again in the future. Valtteri Bottas left Mercedes to join the team on a multi-year deal from this season, with former Alpine junior Guanyu Zhou coming in to partner the Finn in what will be his rookie Formula […]

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Oscar Piastri hopes to use his time out of a race seat to see how Fernando Alonso operates within the Alpine garage in 2022. With Alonso being one of Formula 1’s most successful and experienced drivers, that’s a far from unreasonable idea for the newly-crowned Formula 2 champion to follow – but he is unlikely to race at all in […]

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Honda chief Masashi Yamamoto has revealed the company hit the target for World Championship success they had set themselves when joining forces with Red Bull. Max Verstappen’s triumph in an enthralling 2021 Drivers’ title battle with Lewis Hamilton meant Honda departed Formula 1 with another crown – their first since 1991. Their heyday had, of course, been in the 1980s […]

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Alpine boss Laurent Rossi has said Formula 1 remains the team’s “central pillar”, but their endurance programme is a good “complement” to that. Rossi spoke of his aim to have his team win races and the F1 World Championship by the 2024 or 2025 season, but maintains their entry in the World Endurance Championship does not detract from the budget […]

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Sebastian Vettel did find some enjoyment from a difficult 2021 season – and fighting his old rival Fernando Alonso was right up there. Two of the old stagers of the Formula 1 grid resumed battle after Alonso returned from two years away to drive for Alpine. He was an archetypal midfield performer and the same was true of Vettel, the […]

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While one of his highlights was quite obvious, Max Verstappen selected his best and worst moments of his first World Championship-winning season. He may have won the title in dramatic circumstances, but Abu Dhabi was unsurprisingly listed on his list of standout moments of the year, but his year did not fully go to plan. The new World Champion picked […]

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Ralf Schumacher feels Sebastian Vettel would be a strong candidate for the Mercedes seat should Lewis Hamilton vacate it.  While his contract runs until the end of the 2023 campaign, it is not yet certain Hamilton will return to the grid to drive for Mercedes next season. Since he lost the title fight to Max Verstappen in Abu Dhabi largely because […]

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Alex Albon believes his year on the sidelines with Red Bull has made him a better driver as he now heads to Williams. Albon first joined the Formula 1 grid in 2019 after being recalled to the Red Bull fold and assigned to their junior team, Toro Rosso. After half a season he found himself stepping up to a Red […]

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