Piastri set for first Alpine F1 outing in French GP practice

All teams are obliged to hand two FP1 sessions to rookies in 2022, with both race drivers stepping down on one occasion apiece.
Piastri’s two planned outings are seen as a key part of his learning process as Alpine reserve, along with extensive private running at a variety of tracks with last year’s A521, conducted most recently at Qatar and Silverstone.
Alpine team boss Otmar Szafnauer …Keep reading
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Magnussen: F1 race control too easy to influence after Ocon radio call

Magnussen started fifth alongside team-mate Mick Schumacher after a standout qualifying session for Haas, but his hopes of a strong points finish evaporated after a brush with Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton on the opening lap, which caused damage to his front wing.
Magnussen’s right-hand side endplate was dangling off the side of the wing for several laps, which was spotted by the chasing Alpine …Keep reading
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Russell: Mercedes ‘falling into traps’ with F1 car set-up

In essence the Brackley-based outfit believes that it has addressed the porpoising problem, and instead it is now dealing with bouncing and bottoming with a very stiff car.
Russell says that every time the team changes something on the car another issue crops up.
He adds that every venue is creating its own challenges for the engineers, and so he doesn’t know what to expect at the next race …Keep reading
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Horner: “Element of theatre” in Netflix-filmed F1 team boss meeting

F1 CEO and president Stefano Domenicali held his regular Saturday coffee meeting with team principals in Montreal, during which there were clashes between bosses over porpoising in the wake of the FIA’s technical directive.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said after the meeting that the behaviour of his rival team bosses amid the porpoising debate has been “pitiful” and “disingenuous”, playing …Keep reading
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Ferrari: FIA didn’t follow right F1 procedure with porpoising technical directive

After the violent bouncing that trademarks the 2022 generation of cars was exacerbated in Baku, F1 drivers across several teams urged the FIA to take action amid health concerns.
The FIA responded ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix by issuing a technical directive to help combat the effects. It informed the teams it planned to formulate a metric to measure the vertical acceleration loads of the …Keep reading
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