Vasseur: Alfa Romeo’s season “good on performance, bad on results’”

Following a difficult 2020 that saw Alfa Romeo struggle with its underperforming Ferrari power unit, the team appeared to take a step towards the other midfield teams last year, improving its points tally from 8 to 13 with drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi.
But the team would drop from eighth to ninth place in the F1 constructors’ championship as Williams enjoyed its best season …Keep reading

Ferrari: Budget cap will mean fewer in-season updates in F1 2022

Last season most F1 teams halted any development push on their 2021 cars early in a bid to get ahead of the game for this year’s all-new technical regulations.
While 2021 was an outlier in that regard, Mekies believes the sport’s budget cap will still limit in-season developments compared to pre-2020 levels, as the financial restrictions put in place to make F1 more sustainable will reduce the …Keep reading

Schumacher has “great expectations” for new 2022 Haas F1 car

Ferrari Driver Academy member and 2020 Formula 2 champion Schumacher graduated to F1 last year with the backmarker Haas team.
Haas opted against developing its car for 2021 so it could focus all its resources on the new technical regulations for 2022, resigning it to the back of the grid and a season without points.
But Schumacher was able to show decent signs of progress through his …Keep reading