Volpe: "Our pace looked good in practice, unfortunately we missed out on the Duels in qualifying in a really tight session, before the incidents and subsequent retirements for both Norman and Sacha meant our day finished early."
Volpe: "Now we have to analyze the work we’ve done over the last six races to prepare for the double header in Berlin. There’s been a lot of positives this season, but this race showed some of our weaknesses, so it’s clear where we have to focus."
Motorsport Italy - Andrew Shovlin, track technical director at Mercedes, admitted the team understood before arriving in Bahrain that they had to change concepts on the W14.
This confession came when Wolff has long since declared that the W14 will be revised, indeed revolutionized, over the next few weeks.
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This, however, continues to cause a stir because it is the result of completely incorrect evaluations of a team that in the last 9 years has brought home as many as 15 world titles out of the 16 available from 2014 to 2021.
Auto Motor Und Sport - Bernd Mayländer is regarded as an inventory of Formula 1. The German is now driving the Formula 1 safety car for the 24th year. The racing driver has experienced one or two stories in the process. We spoke to him about his time in F1.
This is how Bernd Mayländer felt at the 1999 San Marino Grand Prix. At the time, the Porsche Supercup driver, who was competing as part of the Formula 1 program, received a call from....
[....] former F1 race director Charlie Whiting: "I thought there was trouble." But that's not true. The FIA offered the then 27-year-old the job of safety car driver in Formula 3000.
Auto Motor Und Sport - There was hope in the chasing pack that Red Bull's dominance in Bahrain was just an exception. But in Jeddah, Aston Martin, Mercedes and Aston Martin found that the RB19 is driving everywhere in another world. The slap was even more resounding.
At the start of the season, Red Bull's opponents received their first nasty slap in the face. After 57 laps, Aston Martin was 38.6 seconds behind, Ferrari 48.0 seconds and Mercedes 50.9 seconds.
Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez had to slow down significantly in the last stint to make ends meet. Red Bull's only opponent at the moment is technology.
Motorsport-Total.com - Mercedes wants to get back to the top of Formula 1 quickly, but George Russell has revealed it will be "about four races" before they make any major leaps forward in terms of performance.
“We are already making good progress,” he clarifies. Nevertheless, one will "perhaps" only see real improvements at the sixth round of the season in Imola. "Maybe we can bring [the updates] a little earlier," he hopes.
However, he also clarifies: "Given the mistakes we've made [in development], we're not going to rush into anything unless we're 120 percent sure it's the right decision."
Mario Isola (Pirelli): We’ve made the same tyre choice as we did back in 2019 for the Australian Grand Prix. Following a two-year absence from the calendar due to the Covid pandemic, we went for a gap in the nominated compounds last year: selecting the C2, C3 and then the....
Isola: [....] softest C5 compound. That race was a one-stopper won by Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, with all the teams using the hard and the medium tyre, while the soft was just used for qualifying.
Isola: This weekend, the teams will have the C2, C3, and C4 at their disposal, which means that they have more options for the race in terms of strategy: on paper at least. We’re expecting a high degree of track evolution throughout the weekend, as is normally the case in...
It was your very first race back in 2014, bringing everyone’s attention to your potential by scoring a podium. Nearly 10 years later, what’s different about the Kevin walking into the paddock today compared to back then?
KMAG: Many, many things. When I look back, I feel like....
Magnussen: [....] I was a child back then. It’s basically a third of my life since then and a lot of stuff has happened since. It was a very intense weekend because having your first Formula 1 race weekend in itself is a big thing, a great experience on its own.
Magnussen: Then, getting on the podium made it that much more special and certainly one of the weekends in my life that I’ll remember forever.