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Sebastian Montoya, Red Bull

Montoya gets full-time Red Bull F1 Junior Team seat for 2023

Sebastian Montoya gets a full-time Red Bull F1 Junior Team seat for the 2023 season after being part as an athlete in 2022. Having been an athlete in 2022, Montoya - son of Juan Pablo...
Ferrari, Hypercar, WEC

Ferrari names its drivers for Hypercar season, Giovinazzi part of it

Ferrari reveals its line-up for the 2023 WEC season in the Hypercar category as Antonio Giovinazzi joins the set-up. Ferrari officially announces its crews for taking on the 2023 season in the Hypercar class of...
WRC, Hyundai

Photo: Hyundai unveils 2023 WRC challenger

Hyundai are the first to unveil its 2023 FIA WRC challenger - the i20 N Rally1 Hybrid - ahead of the season start. A new season awaits! 2023 marks our tenth year in the FIA...
Lewis Hamilton, George Russell, F1

Hamilton, Russell talk of F1 2022 together as teammates

Lewis Hamilton, George Russell are happy how their first F1 season together at mercedes panned out where they helped the team in many ways. The biggest challenge or threat for any driver first and foremost...
Franco Colapinto, Williams

Colapinto is latest to join the Williams F1 academy

Franco Colapinto is latest to join the Williams F1 driver academy for the 2023 season as he will continue in the F3 championship. The Williams academy has Colapinto joining them for the 2023 F1 season,...
Daniel Ricciardo, F1

Ricciardo relieved top teams didn’t call him for F1 drive

Daniel Ricciardo is relieved that he didn't get a call from any big F1 teams for a 2023 drive as his mind wasn't to compete this year as much. Once it was confirmed that Ricciardo...
Christian Horner, F1

Horner says winning consistently is quick way to become unpopular

Christian Horner notes that winning consistently in F1 does make one unpopular quickly as he speaks on learning despite dominance. Despite its success with Red Bull Honda managing to stop the Mercedes juggernaut in the...
F1, Mohammed Ben Sulayem

Sulayem surprised by adverse reaction to Andretti/Cadillac news

FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem is surprised by the adverse reaction from F1 fraternity to the news of Andretti/Cadillac. As the FIA President, Sulayem opened up his team to look into the interest from multiple...
Guenther Steiner, F1

Steiner reckons F1 2022 was good year to pen a book

Guenther Steiner opens up about the book he has written about the 2022 F1 season and having no regrets signing rookie drivers for Haas. Post the 2022 F1 season, Haas informed about the book being...
Carlos Sainz, Frederic Vasseur

Sainz feels right with Vasseur’s hiring as Ferrari F1 boss

Carlos Sainz feels right with Ferrari's decision to take in Frederic Vassuer who starts his F1 team boss job this month replacing Mattia Binotto. While Binotto's exit seemed happening, Ferrari delayed the announcement until after...

Aston Martin elaborates on ’22 progress which will be handy in ’23

Tom McCullough speaks on the progress that Aston Martin has made during the course of 2022 F1 season which will come in handy for 2023. It wasn't the start that Aston Martin wanted to their...
Toto Wolff, F1

Wolff talks tracing the issues in low seasons, no emotion of ‘fear’

Toto Wolff talks about tracing the issues when the season doesn't go in your favour as he adds on his F1 rivals and how fear is not what he has. For Mercedes and Wolff, it...
Ken Block, WRC

WRC retires Block’s #43 for the 2023 season as mark of respect

The promoters of FIA WRC series has decided to retire Ken Block's #43 for the 2023 season as a mark of respect. The number 43 has been withdrawn from use in this year's FIA World...
Adrian Newey, Red Bull

Newey talks impact of less windtunnel time for Red Bull in 2023

Adrian Newey talks about the impact that the windtunnel time cut that Red Bull will face in 2023, while adding on competition from Ferrari and Mercedes. With the advent of their successes last season, Red...
Andretti, Cadillac, F1

Andretti join forces with GM’s Cadillac in a bid to enter F1

Andretti Global has joined forces with General Motors' Cadillac brand in a bid to enter and compete in the F1 championship. In a big announcement from Andretti on Thursday, the American racing giants revealed its...
Williams, F1

Williams getting away from ‘being stuck in past’ with modernisation

FX Demaison says Williams were kind of stuck in the past for few years and that only now the modernisation is happening. Financial limitations started to hurt Williams a lot in the last few years...
Ferrari, Carlos Sainz

Ferrari pleased they can count on Sainz in 2023 after improvement

Outing Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto is pleased with how Carlos Sainz managed to bounce back and learn through the 2022 F1 season. It wasn't the starts that Sainz wanted in 2022 F1 season when teammate...
Lewis Hamilton, F1

Hamilton has gratitude for team after toughest season in 10 years

Lewis Hamilton is filled with gratitude for the people at Mercedes after enduring their toughest F1 seasons in the past 10 years. It is actually about 10 years when Mercedes kick-started their dominant run from...
Laurent Rossi, Pierre Gasly

Rossi hopes Gasly brings their need to develop in the right direction

Laurent Rossi hopes that Pierre Gasly will bring the driver package that they need as a replacement of Fernando Alonso, to develop the Alpine F1 car. A switch from AlphaTauri to Alpine in an all-French...

Ken Block dies after a snowmobile incident in Utah

Professional rally driver Ken Block, aged 55-years, has died after a snowmobile incident in Utah as the family asks for privacy. Statement from Hoonigan Racing: "It's with our deepest regrets that we can confirm that Ken...
Christian Horner, Max Verstappen

Horner picks Verstappen’s epic 2022 race wins in an incredible year

Christian Horner notes 2021 season will go down in history but 2022 F1 win has other charm as he recalls Max Verstappen's highlights. While Verstappen noted how his win in 2021 was different from 2022,...
F1, FIA, Mohammed Ben Sulayem

Sulayem asks his FIA team to look into teams wanting to enter F1

Mohammed Ben Sulayem has asked his FIA team to look into the teams who wish to enter the F1 championship in future. For some time now, American giants Andretti Autosports have been looking to enter...
Andrea Stella, F1

Stella discusses approach as team principal, support from Brown

Andrea Stella talks about taking F1 team principal role and taking McLaren forward with the help of Zak Brown after Andreas Seidl's departure. Having been the executive director on the operations side for the last...
F1, Frederic Vasseur

Vasseur stresses on importance of independent teams in F1

Frederic Vasseur stresses on the importance of independent teams in F1 and that the current midfield outfit are still struggling to match the budget cap. After years of work into it, the FIA finally managed...
Sebastian Vettel, Mattia Binotto, F1

Binotto admits failure for Vettel and Ferrari to not win title together

Mattia Binotto admits failure in winning the F1 title for Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari together when the two were together. Having had the success with Red Bull, Vettel finally moved to Ferrari to pursue his...
Mercedes, F1

Mercedes pair discuss early part of 2022 when issues struck them

Mercedes pair of Mike Elliott and Toto Wolff discuss early part of 2022 especially the winter, testing and the porpoising issues. With the F1 season over by five weeks now, most of the teams and...
Kevin Magnussen, F1

Magnussen concedes rivals developed more but is confident for ’23

Kevin Magnussen was surprised with the pace shown by Haas early on in F1 2022, but concedes that others developed more than them. Having been out of the sport for a couple of seasons, Magnussen...
Max Verstappen, F1

Verstappen feels despite dominance he was pushed by rivals in ’22

Max Verstappen not swayed by records as he notes that despite the dominance, he feels he was pushed in his F1 2022 title win. While Verstappen was pleased to win the F1 world championship for...
Williams

Williams focused more on long-term work than ’22 since Silverstone

Williams stopped much of its development of the 2022 F1 car post Silverstone with the focus more on the long-term project. The 2022 F1 season was a chance for teams like Haas and Williams to...
F1

F1 2022: Drivers categorised in tier system for their performances

With the 2022 F1 season done and dusted, FormulaRapida.net decided to draw out a ranking system in a new ‘Tier’ system, moving away from a traditional, individual ranked order. The long 2022 F1 season had...

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