Even after the Bahrain test weeks, Nico Hülkenberg is not ready to pronounce on the new pecking order in Formula 1. Audi endured a mixed test programme; a tricky shakedown in Barcelona was followed by a much more promising upgrade package.
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Laurent Mekies says Red Bull can be proud of the past few weeks. The Austrian outfit ran, during the shakedown in Barcelona and the past two test weeks in Bahrain, for the first time with a power unit of their own making, fulfilling a dream of the late team founder
Max Verstappen wrapped up Friday’s test programme ahead of the new F1 season. After teammate Isack Hadjar ran the RB22 in the morning, the Dutchman took the wheel in the afternoon. Verstappen posted the third-best time during his long runs, but was clearly nowhere near Charles Leclerc‘s strikingly dominant Ferrari.
Ferrari turned heads on Thursday in Bahrain when it rolled out a brand-new rear‑wing concept. Lewis Hamilton trialled a spoiler flap that can rotate 180 degrees to allow more air through on the straights. That generates extra top speed on fast circuits without sacrificing downforce in the corners. Williams team
Reigning world champion McLaren, based on the recent winter tests, does not yet consider itself part of the outright top, team principal Andrea Stella said after the final day in Bahrain. After a closed shakedown in Barcelona and two three-day tests in Sakhir the Italian laid out his findings. Stella
George Russell is worried about the new start procedure. With the MGU-H gone, the new engines have to be spun for longer and at higher revs at the start. In Bahrain that produced worrying scenes during the first test week, although most teams now appear to have found their feet.
Behind the Netflix series Drive to Survive lies a production process in which cooperation with the Formula 1 teams is crucial. “Without their support there is no show,” emphasised Tom Rogers, a producer at Box to Box, the company behind the F1 docuseries, and Liam Parker, Formula 1’s director of
