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The FIA stepped in to bar the Venturi and Mercedes teams from qualifying for round 2 of the…
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George Russell and Alex Albon have been playing video games and streaming it on twitch since the lockdown, and since then the duo has been making jokes at each other. The two have been going at each other, on the track and away from it. The internet loves the jokes that go on between the…
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Mick Schumacher, the German, comes to F1 after winning the championship in Formula Two. The Haas F1 team signed me up to drive in the 2021 season. He hopes to bring some of that winning momentum from F2 to his debut season onto the big stage of Formula One. However, the German has been working…
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Ott Tänak retained his stranglehold on Arctic Rally Finland by winning two of Saturday morning’s three speed tests to stretch his overnight lead.
In perfect winter conditions, the Estonian won the opening 24.43km Mustalampi and the closing 27.68km Siikakämä in his Hyundai i20. He arrived at mid-leg service in Rovaniemi with a 23.6sec advantage in this second round of the FIA World Rally Championship.
Only a brush with a snowbank in the 19.91km Kaihuavaara prevented a hat trick, allowing Elfyn Evans to stop a Tänak clean sweep by claiming fastest time in his Toyota Yaris.
Craig Breen, lying second overnight, fended off Kalle Rovanperä in Mustalampi but the Irishman could not repel the young Finn any longer. Rovanperä moved ahead in the next test and the Yaris man held a 5.3sec advantage over Breen’s i20.
Rovanperä swiped a snowbank on a quick right corner in Siikakämä but, despite overnight changes, the 20-year-old remained frustrated with the balance of his Yaris.
Breen survived a few encounters with snowbanks in the opener and felt his pace notes were slightly below par on the next two tests.
Team-mate Thierry Neuville was 5.8sec back in fourth. The Belgian struggled to hear co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe’s pace notes above his i20’s engine noise.
Evans was fifth, the Welshman feeling he was too slow in places and too quick in others. He headed a fascinating three-car scrap between Oliver Solberg, Takamoto Katsuta and championship leader Sébastien Ogier.
Teenager Solberg was up from eighth to sixth in his i20, holding a 1.1sec margin over the Japanese driver after a stunning third fastest time in Mustalampi on only his fourth WRC stage in a World Rally Car. Katsuta had 1.8sec in hand over team-mate Ogier.
Teemu Suninen was distanced by the battling trio, the Finn slipping from sixth to ninth in his Ford Fiesta, with team-mate Gus Greensmith rounding off the top 10.
Lorenzo Bertelli was an early casualty, the Italian diving deep into a Mustalampi snowbank from which he was unable to emerge.
In FIA WRC2, Movisport’s Esapekka Lappi in his Volkswagen Polo GTI holds a 33.1s lead over Toksport’s Andreas Mikkelsen in a Škoda Fabia Evo. Lappi taem-mate’s Nicolay Gryazin is in third in another Polo.
National champion Teemu Asunmaa leads the FIA WRC3 field with a tight advantage of 2.0s over Estonia’s Egon Kaur. Finland’s Eerik Pietarinen is a further 56.1s behind.
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Lewis Hamilton says “inequities” still prevail in the world of Formula 1, insisting he will continue to push…
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Britain’s Lewis Hamilton has been dominating the track ever since he joined Mercedes from Mclaren. The number 44 has won seven world titles and seems to be unstoppable. Carlos Sainz stated that the entire Formula One has great respect for the Brit who has equaled Michael Schumacher’s title count, However, even though Sainz respects Hamilton…
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There are some doubts over the kind of relationship that the new Red Bull driver pairing of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez will share. Checo wasn’t really the Dutchman’s preferred choice, with Max reportedly vying for his good friend Nico Hulkenberg. However, that’s now in the past, and the team’s advisor Dr Helmut Marko gave…
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Ferrari had a horrid 2020 season they finished 6th in the standings with 131 points, their worst season since 1980. During the first of the team pre-season launches, team principal Mattia Binotto acknowledged that repeating last year’s performance is not an option for the red team. According to him, it is his duty to take…
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