Ray Reed, F1 driver

After a disappointing performance in the season opener in Bahrain, Mercedes has been open that it has not made the progress it anticipated with its new W14 and needs to rethink its plans. 
Now, it has emerged that the team’s senior management, drivers and engineering staff, were involved in an intense meeting on the Tuesday after the Bahrain race to address its ...

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Sargeant set the same time as Lando Norris in Q1, but because the McLaren driver logged it first he progressed through, while the American was left in 16th and eliminated. 
However, in the race, the Williams rookie put in a solid drive to 12th at the flag, and he was one of several drivers to benefit from an extra set of fresh tyres in the last part of the race after Charles Leclerc ...

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Andretti, who runs several outfits in world motorsports including one of IndyCar's leading teams, has been working on an F1 bid for years and felt he finally had the missing ingredient to sway the sport by partnering with a top-level OEM in General Motors.
But most of F1's existing 10 teams - who have a say in any new team joining - are still hesitant to accept Andretti into the fold as an ...

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The American, who plans to lodge an entry with the General Motors Cadillac brand to join F1 as soon as possible, has found little support among the current competitors for his ambitions.
While FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is eager to add more teams to the grid and believes GM's involvement will be a boost to the series, Andretti has not found the support he hoped for among potential ...

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Herta has been widely tipped for a seat at AlphaTauri next season in the event of Pierre Gasly moving to Alpine, but the seven-time IndyCar race-winner lacks the required superlicence points to make the switch to F1.
With the FIA clear it would not change its rules to make an exception for Herta, Red Bull has now given up on its attempts to sign him and switched its attentions to Nyck de Vries ...

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Vettel has been outspoken about environmental issues for a couple of years, often highlighting local problems depending where F1 is racing on a given race weekend.
Vettel arrived in the paddock at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Thursday wearing a T-shirt that read: "Stop mining tar sands ? Canada's climate crime", relating to the oil sands operation in Alberta.
This was followed by a ...

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As part of a raft of measures that motor racing?s governing body has introduced for the Montreal weekend to reduce cars bouncing, the FIA has relaxed some rules relating to the floor areas of the car.
As part of his technical directive (TD) intervening on porpoising, the FIA?s single seater technical director Nikolas Tombazis wrote to teams to inform them that extra help was being allowed ...

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Leclerc was on course for a comfortable third place behind the dominant Red Bulls of winner Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez and was just looking to salvage a result on Ferrari home soil after teammate Carlos Sainz was taken out on the first lap.
But on lap 53 of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Leclerc spun off at the Variante Alta chicane, damaging his front wing after contact with the outside ...

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The reintroduction of ground effect-style aerodynamics for the 2022 season has resulted in the return of a phenomenon known as porpoising, at which the heave movement of the car is excited by the oncoming airflow and causes up-and-down oscillations in the car.
This was a problem for F1 cars back in the early 1980s when ground-effect aerodynamics were last permitted, and has also been seen in ...

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Albon has served as Red Bull?s reserve and test driver this season after being dropped at the end of last year to make way for Sergio Perez at the team as Max Verstappen?s teammate.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner revealed last week at Spa that efforts were being made to find Albon a seat for next year, with Williams and Alfa Romeo being the two open teams.
Albon?s return to ...

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Hamilton and Mercedes only announced they had signed a one-year contract extension for the 2021 season in February after postponing talks through last season.
Hamilton has previously said he was not treating 2021 as his final season in F1, and has recently made comments that he intends to be on the grid with Mercedes in 2022. The Briton scored his third victory in four races at Sunday's Spanish ...

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Vettel finished the Q3 session in 10th place, having at times during qualifying shown the potential to be even higher on the grid.
It was the first time in 2021 that Vettel has outqualified teammate Lance Stroll - the Canadian, who was running a new aerodynamic package, failed to make it out of Q1 in 17th place.
The Portuguese session also marked the first time Vettel had made into Q3 since ...

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The Finn had led the opening phase of the race at Imola on Sunday, but was pitted in response to the pursuing Max Verstappen moving first to change tyres.
While Bottas had to cover Verstappen to avoid getting undercut, Hamilton asked to stay out and pulled a very long stint on the medium tyres.
That long run in doing a different strategy gave Hamilton the time gap he needed to pit and stay ...

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Ocon, who didn't race in F1 in 2019 but had an intense programme as Mercedes' reserve, test and simulator driver, has joined Renault on a two-year deal to drive alongside Daniel Ricciardo.
He retains a management link with Mercedes, with team principal Toto Wolff having described him as "a cousin of the Mercedes family today".
Ocon says he will take some of the knowledge he'd accrued at ...

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