Giovinazzi no longer needs Raikkonen as F1 reference – Vasseur

Giovinazzi is in his third full season with Alfa Romeo, scoring the Swiss team’s first point of 2021 with a 10th place in Monaco.
After a difficult debut campaign with the team in 2019, Giovinazzi got on par with Raikkonen as the pair finished 2020 with four points each, while Giovinazzi narrowly outqualified the 2007 world champion by nine to eight.
The Italian vowed to keep learning from …Keep reading

Between the lines: In defence of Formula 1’s track limits

“We’ve lost the victory, fastest lap, and pole position. I hope that’s the end of it. Something has to change.”
That’s how Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko responded to TV reporters at the Formula 1 Portuguese Grand Prix with post-race emotions still running high after a spate of high-profile track limit infringements.
The problem is, track limits will always be a point of …Keep reading

Tsunoda: Controlling myself on the radio my “main topic”

Tsunoda’s heated and often expletive-ridden team radio messages attracted a lot of attention this season and drew mixed responses from fans and observers.
Speaking on F1’s Beyond The Grid podcast, Tsunoda accepted that his temper behind the wheel and his team radio communications are a “main topic” to improve in the coming races, admitting he doesn’t know why he gets so hot under the …Keep reading

Marko: Wolff ‘should look at his front wings’ amid F1 protest warnings

F1 teams have been engaged in debate over the stability of rear wings since the Spanish Grand Prix, when Lewis Hamilton passed comment about Red Bull running a “bendy wing”.
The FIA has since moved to clamp down on the flexi-wings by introducing new rigidity tests that will come into force from the French Grand Prix. 
But Mercedes and McLaren were left unhappy that the FIA had not …Keep reading