Francesco "Pecco" Bagnaia (Ducati) - 2022 #MotoGP World Champion: "I just lost my faith in it [being 90-points behind in the championship] like 1 or 2 hours after the Sachenring, but after that moment I tried to see the way to find to be better, to improve myself and...."
Bagnaia: "[....] to analyse why I was crashing. Why, I was making so many mistakes. Sincerely I am very proud of my team. Very proud of the people working trackside and people working back at the factory for us. It's unbelievable! I am very happy!"
Bagnaia: "I am also very proud of myself for what we achieved. It's an unbelievable moment! When I was young, I was looking at MotoGP, I was cheering for Vale [Rossi], and I saw that with Ducati, Vale didn't have his feeling and the possibility to win the title."
Bagnaia: "So, I was really sad, not only because I was a big fan of Vale, but a great fan of Ducati. When I received the call from Gigi [Dall'Igna], when he said to me: "Next year, you will be the factory rider." It was a dream, a big dream for me."
Bagnaia: "Finally, after two-years, I'll have this possibility to fight for it - with problems, with mistakes and I crashed a lot. It didn't go so well that year, but this year, the come back was incredible, and I have to say thanks to them for what they have given to me."
Bagnaia: "The support they have gave. It's incredible! I have to say thanks to Ducati, thanks to my the VR46 Academy, thanks to my family, thanks to my girlfriend - this is a very beautiful moment for me."
Toto Wolff believes that every manager or director must find their management style. The Mercedes F1 director has found his own, and thinks there are two opposing types of leaders. Very often, according to him, the most difficult thing is to have a balanced approach.
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"The most important thing is to be authentic in the way you act and to be true to yourself. Because if you're not authentic, and you try to pretend to do things a certain way, people will feel it. Even if it's not a conscious reaction," Wolff said.
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"Clearly, if you look at both sides of the spectrum, you have an absolute empathetic person who avoids controversy, tries to deal with love, and will, at some stage, be disappointed at how people abuse that personality type."
Mario Isola (Pirelli): Formula 1 heads to Interlagos next weekend: the shortest lap of the year after Monaco and Mexico. It’s a historic track run anti-clockwise, which alternates some quick sections as well as medium-speed sequences of corners, such as the famous ‘Senna esses’.
Isola: There aren’t any big demands on the tyres in terms of traction and braking because it’s a very flowing layout, and the lack of slow corners means that the teams are able to control the degradation on the rear tyres.
Isola: Brazil will host the "Sprint" also this year, the last of the season, and it will be particularly interesting with this car package to see what will happen on the track and, once again, the key role of the different strategies that can be used: in 2021 the grid on....
Andreas Seidl: The team are looking forward to the race weekend at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace. It’s an interesting track with banked corners, the famous Senna S, camber changes and undulation, so it will be great to see the....
Seidl: [....] new cars on track and see what overtaking opportunities arise. It is also a Sprint weekend which adds extra excitement for the fans and the teams. It comes with some challenges that we must prepare for such as one less practice session and looking at what spares...
Seidl: [....] we need at the track with the increased risk of damage. However, it also provides an opportunity to pick up some vital extra points. It should provide some good entertainment for everyone watching.
Motorsport Italy reports that Scuderia Ferrari engineers analyzed the data from the Mexican GP to identify the cause of a weekend on the high altitude in which the reds suffered problems that never occurred.
In addition to the difficulties in exploiting the turbo with thin air, the F1-75 also suffered from overheating in the 6-cylinder combustion chamber which forced the adoption of poorly performing mappings to safeguard reliability.
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Enrico Gualtieri's engineers were aware that they would have paid for something with a turbo-compressor limited to an engine speed of 103,000 rpm against the 125,000 allowed by the FIA regulations.
Motorsport-Total.com - Leclerc: Believed in World Championship chance until after the summer break.
After the Hungarian Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc went into the summer break 80 points behind Max Verstappen.
In an interview with our Italian colleagues from 'Motorsport.com' he revealed that at that point he still believed in his chances of winning the World Championship.
"A lot of people think that moment was the French Grand Prix," he replies when asked when he realized that 2022 would not be enough for the title. "But it was fun for me," emphasizes Leclerc, who still had hope during the summer break.
How do you think the team has fared at Sprint weekends this year and are there any changes that could be made to improve the format for teams and fans?
KMAG: I think we’ve done well, we’ve scored points at every Sprint so far and I actually quite like those weekends where you...
Magnussen: get into serious business, quickly. Three practice sessions are actually a lot, and these weekends show that you can get ready for qualifying with one practice. It’s the same for everyone, you deal with it, and it becomes normal.
Magnussen: I think six next year is good but of course the workload for the team in the garage during these weekends is very high. From a driving perspective, it’s very cool.