McLaren chief gives damning 2021 season verdict as pressure ramps up on Michael Masi
McLaren chief Andreas Seidl has shared his thoughts on the controversial ending to the 2021 season.
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Michael Masi set to lose FIA job as Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes to get their wish granted
Michael Masi is expected to be removed from his position as the FIA's race director in a move that should guarantee Lewis Hamilton's involvement in Formula One for the 2022 season. The president of F1's governing body held a meeting with the teams, including Mercedes, on Monday.
Formula One to hold three sprint races in 2022
Formula One approved a plan to hold three sprint races instead of six in 2022 at an F1 Commission meeting on Monday, the FIA said in a statement. The move will see the sprint format used at races in Imola's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix and the Austrian and Brazilian Grands Prix, the FIA said in a statement. The sport was set to roll the format out across six events this season after having trialled it at three grands prix last year.
Lewis Hamilton backed to beat Max Verstappen in 2022 - but he may still not win F1 title
Jenson Button expects Lewis Hamilton to get the better of Max Verstappen in the 2022 Formula One season - but he thinks that George Russell could still beat his fellow Briton to the Drivers' Championship. Button believes his former team-mate Hamilton's greatest threat to a record-breaking eighth crown could come from his new Mercedes partner.
“Really hungry” Guerrieri is thinking “big” ahead of WTCR 2022
Esteban Guerrieri is gearing up for more WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup action in 2022 with “big objectives” to achieve. Announced as a Honda Racing driver in the WTCR for a fifth season last month, Guerrieri has been a title contender during each of the last four years.
ERC’s Soria a winner in the winter
Paulo Soria got his 2022 season off to the best possible start by winning his class on the Covasna Winter Rally in Romania earlier this month. The Argentine, who finished runner-up to Andrea Mabellini in the Clio Trophy by Toksport WRT – held within the FIA European Rally Championship – last season was fastest in his class on five out of eight stages alongside co-driver Marcelo Ohannesian.
Formula One to hold three sprint races in 2022
Formula One approved a plan to hold three sprint races instead of six in 2022 at an F1 Commission meeting on Monday, the FIA said in a statement.
FIA Alters F1 Rain Rules And Refuses To Increase Number Of Sprints
The International Automobile Federation (FIA) said on Monday it had changed a wet-weather rule that helped Max Verstappen snatch last season's Formula One title and had dialled back plans for six 'sprint' qualifiers. The FIA made its announcement after a meeting of its commission and its newly-elected FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem with Formula One teams in London. The FIA said in a statement that there had been "detailed discussions" of a second controversy, at the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi.