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Oliver Bearman completed his first FP1 session of the season with Haas on Friday at Imola. Fans had the opportunity to get another glimpse of the Englishman after his spectacular Saudi Arabia debut. Ferrari called up their junior driver for the race in Jeddah after Carlos Sainz had to go hospital with appendicitis. He stepped in for the final practice session, qualifying and the race. Bearman won driver of the day after finishing an impressive seventh place under the lights. While Sainz was fit to return for the subsequent race in Australia, he knew he would have further opportunities in F1 th...
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Daniel Ricciardo has admitted the Visa Cash App RB driver rues Formula 1 scrapping a ‘scary’ factor, which Stefano Domenicali has stated might now be revisited for 2030. The Australian has seen a lot since Ricciardo first joined the F1 field mid-season in 2011 with HRT. He debuted in the pinnacle of motorsport at the British Grand Prix, before switching to Toro Rosso in 2012. Now, Ricciardo is up to 247 race entries at the 2024 Emilia Romagna GP. Ricciardo has even won eight of his 245 Grand Prix starts ahead of this week’s race at Imola. The 34-year-old has further stood on 32 podiums and sec...
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Mercedes have seen numerous key figures join Ferrari in recent times. Most notably, of course, seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton is headed to the Italian team for 2025. But there has also been movement behind the scenes. This week, Ferrari announced that Loic Serra had joined from the Brackley outfit as head of chassis performance and engineering. Meanwhile, Jerome D’Ambrosio has made the same move to take up the post of deputy team principal under Fred Vasseur. Former F1 driver D’Ambrosio had looked like a potential successor to Toto Wolff. And the exodus to Maranello might not stop th...
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Ayao Komatsu has now hinted at the timeline Haas have set to decide if Ferrari gem Oliver Bearman is ready to secure a full-time drive with the Formula 1 team in 2025. The 19-year-old is one of the most highly-rated young drivers pushing to earn a seat on F1’s grid. Bearman is also in a great spot to showcase his talents as the reserve driver for Ferrari and Haas in 2024. He will make six FP1 outings with Haas across the 2024 Formula 1 season. Bearman will get behind the wheel of the VF-24 for the first time at the Emilia Romagna GP. He will even drive with Haas in FP1 for the Spanish GP, the ...
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Fernando Alonso has fallen foul of the Formula 1 stewards on a couple of occasions already this season. But he hasn’t taken the punishments lying down. At the Australian Grand Prix in March, Alonso received a 20-second penalty for an incident with George Russell on the penultimate lap. He was adjudged to have driven unnecessarily slowly before Russell lost control of his car and crashed out. Aston Martin subsequently issued a statement on their social media channels questioning the call. It dropped him from sixth to eighth. Then, in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix last month, Alonso was b...
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Mercedes have known for around three and a half months now that Lewis Hamilton would be leaving to join Ferrari for 2025. But they’re still no closer to naming a replacement. It appears that team principal Toto Wolff is waiting for a definitive ‘no’ from Max Verstappen before he finalises his plans. Wolff held talks with the world champion following the Miami Grand Prix, but his concern about Mercedes’ lack of competitiveness remains. Indeed, the Silver Arrows have yet to score a podium this year after six races, their longest drought since 2011. They’re already a whopping 175 points behind Re...
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Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur is doing his best to hire the strongest talent in the Formula 1 paddock to try and end Red Bull Racing’s domination. The headline signing is Lewis Hamilton and he will join up with the team ahead of the 2025 campaign. A report from Gazzetta dello Sport has shared more details about the team’s ambitions. It’s been announced that two more senior members of staff will join Ferrari before the end of the year. They’ve weakened rivals Mercedes by bringing in Jerome d’Ambrosio who was Toto Wolff’s de-facto number two. They’ve also signed senior engineer Loic Se...
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Adrian Newey officially handed in his resignation as the chief technical officer at Red Bull earlier this month. From February 2025 onwards, he’ll no longer be their employee. Three months on from the bombshell news of Lewis Hamilton joining Ferrari, this was another seismic development. Newey has worked with Red Bull for 18 years, delivering 13 of his 25 career championships. Naturally, many are wondering whether this could bring an end to the Bulls’ recent dominance. Christian Horner has tried to downplay his influence, much to the annoyance of his wife Amanda. Technical director Pierre Wach...
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There have been some brilliant individual performances already during the 2024 Formula 1 season. Lando Norris stole the headlines in Miami but during the first six race weekends, plenty of other drivers have put in some fantastic displays. Speaking on the Beyond The Grid Podcast, Sky Sports pundit Martin Brundle has highlighted another race that caught his eye. The season started with 20 drivers on the grid, but Williams star Logan Sargeant currently sits 21 in the Drivers’ Championship. That’s because Oliver Bearman made an unexpected cameo in Saudi Arabia for Ferrari that left Brundle seriou...
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James Vowles has tied down one of his Williams drivers long-term after Alex Albon agreed to sign a new contract. But now he must decide on the identity of his teammate. Logan Sargeant has, in the words of one journalist, been ‘pre-fired’ for a long time now. Williams kept faith in him for 2024 after an underwhelming rookie campaign, but he’s failed to show any notable improvement. They even requested special dispensation to field Mercedes youngster Kimi Antonelli prior to his 18th birthday in late August. They were seemingly ready to fire Sargeant at the earliest opportunity. However, there’s ...
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