日: 2022年4月25日

The Alpine team was deemed by the FIA stewards to have performed an unsafe release after Ocon emerged side-by-side with Hamilton, forcing the Mercedes driver to cede him the position.
Ocon received a five-second penalty for the incident, and having finished in 11th place with a queue of cars behind him the Alpine driver slipped to 14th in the final results.
The pitlane incident happened at …Keep reading

The German manufacturer has had a difficult start to the 2022 season, with its W13 suffering from porpoising which is compromising its performance.
The team has found that to stop its car bouncing it needs to raise the rideheight so much that it gives away a lot of downforce, and therefore lap time.
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff apologised to Lewis Hamilton on team radio at the end of the Emilia …Keep reading

From 13th on the grid he jumped up to ninth on the first lap, later gaining a spot when Fernando Alonso retired.
He moved up another place when he jumped Kevin Magnussen in the pits after being among the first to switch to slicks, leaving him in seventh for much of the race. He gained another position when Charles Leclerc spun, but lost out to Yuki Tsunoda and the recovering Leclerc.
The …Keep reading

Verstappen secured maximum points at Imola, including winning the sprint race on Saturday and taking the bonus point for the fastest lap in his grand prix victory on Sunday, to cut Leclerc’s lead in the F1 drivers’ world championship to 27 points.
Leclerc had been pressuring Sergio Perez for second place late on but spun off at the Variante Alta chicane and hit the outside wall. The Ferrari …Keep reading

Max Verstappen was voted the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for his triumph in the 2021 F1…

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The annual cap on what teams can spend fell from $145m in 2021 to $140m for this season.
However, the rising costs of many items that fall under the cap have made it harder than anticipated for the bigger teams to stay under it without compromising car development.
Several teams have been lobbying hard for an increase in the cap, or other forms of adjustment, although other teams have …Keep reading

The Woking-based squad endured a difficult start to the 2022 campaign, with brake problems marring the final pre-season test and it subsequently having a tough first event in Bahrain that it left without any points.
Since then, however, its car has looked more competitive and, at Imola last weekend, Lando Norris was able to qualify third in the wet/dry Friday session before finishing behind Red …Keep reading

Max Verstappen scored his second victory of the 2022 season by controlling proceedings in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, leading home Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez.
It marked Red Bull’s first 1-2 finish since the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix as it capitalised on a difficult race for Ferrari on home turf.
Carlos Sainz retired on the opening lap after contact with Daniel Ricciardo, while …Keep reading