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Gasly expects the first “clean weekend” of the AlphaTauri season in Spain
AlphaTauri currently sits seventh in the constructors’ championship with 16 points, but has not brought any significant improvements to the AT03 for this weekend’s race. Gasly says he is more concerned with the team having a smooth weekend than the lack of updates compared to their rivals.
“I haven’t really read much about which team brings what,” says Gasly. “It’s more like trying to look at ourselves over the last couple of weekends: what went right, what went wrong. How can we just max out because I feel like so far this season we haven’t really had a clean weekend?
“For various reasons, we never managed to get a clean qualifying, a clean race, no problems and maximize the points at the end of the day, which is what we have to do. In the midfield, we have six cars that can finish between seventh and tenth, so it is quite difficult, but at the same time it is a good challenge and puts more pressure on us to deliver at a higher level.
“Just like last year, sometimes we even performed at 98-99 percent of our potential and we were still there. This year, I don’t think we have that cushion compared to last year. We just need to be excellent every time, especially if we want to score points.”
Andretti is struggling with transition from BMW factory team, says Griffiths
Andretti Formula E team principal Roger Griffiths admits the team has had challenges adjusting to BMW’s loss of resources after the transition from a factory team to an independent one.
Andretti still uses a BMW powertrain, with a single homologation for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 seasons. However, the German marque dropped out of the series at the end of last year and since then the team has struggled to find similar performance, despite retaining some access to BMW’s engineering and simulation facilities.
The team started the 2022 season relatively strongly, with a third-place podium finish for Jake Dennis and a points finish for rookie Oliver Askew in the first Diriyah race. However, Dennis has struggled to score more than a handful of points and Askew hasn’t been able to find a competitive rhythm since.
“I think it’s up to us as a team that has made the transition from a factory BMW team to an independent team,” explained Griffiths. “We no longer have the resources that we used to have, we are learning more about how to operate the car on our own.
“With that learning there is always going to be one or two instances that don’t always work. I think we got stuck in Rome with the pace of the cars there and how it evolved and we just didn’t win enough. We reacted pretty well in Mexico City but ultimately there were other challenges that we faced there that slowed us down a bit. But we have been making progress each time. So every time we’ve come out of a race, we’ve understood the shortcomings that maybe we’ve had and how to work on them and make improvements.”
Quotes: Hazel Southwell
Hadjar “really impressive” says Hitech F3 boss
Hitech GP founder Oliver Oakes says he is impressed by how quickly Red Bull junior Isack Hadjar has adapted to the team so far in this year’s FIA F3 championship.
The 17-year-old is part of the Red Bull Junior Team and is competing in his first season in the FIA F3 championship. Hadjar finished third in this year’s Formula Regional Asian Series with the team before moving on to the FIA F3 championship, where he sits fifth after four races having won the first round in Bahrain.
“I think Isack has been a bit of a surprise,” said Hitech boss Oakes. “Last year we had two really talented rookies and it was evident to us that they were going to be really good, finding their place. What surprises us with Isack is that he has found his place much faster.
“I think what surprised me the most, more than his results, is how seriously he takes it, how much he studies with his engineer and that’s really nice to see at that age. Because normally that’s the battle, really, as a team: try to make them realize that at the F3 and F2 level you can have all the talent you want, but all the details matter. His track positioning, warming up his tyres: it’s all very difficult with 30 cars and I think how he’s handled it so far has been really impressive.
Quotes: Hazel Southwell
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Mercedes enters secret test in bid to overcome current race woes (Telegraph)
“It is understood that Hamilton’s team-mate George Russell drove the facelifted Mercedes in a closed-door test on Wednesday.
Welcome to my world Lewis! Fernando Alonso on life in F1 (BBC)
“This is the nature of the sport. Sometimes you have a better car, sometimes you don’t have such a good car and you still need to fight and progress.”
McLaren launch British GP fundraising challenge to raise £59,000 for Mind (Formula 1) charity
“One Lap for Mind will be a fundraising challenge where participants can walk, run or bike 5.9km, the distance of one lap of Silverstone Circuit, between June 27 and July 3. , either going the full distance in one go or breaking it up into stages.”
“Of course, I would like to be in Formula 1. That is the ultimate goal and there is a long way to go. I am realistic in what I need to achieve and I know there is still a lot to achieve. It puts pressure on me, but I trust that it’s possible”.
Crazy F1 student from the University of Northampton joins the Mercedes team (Northants Live)
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20 of the best runners in the world who did not qualify for the Indianapolis 500 (Jalopnik)
“When Juan Manuel Fangio arrived at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1958, he did so with great fanfare. He was already a celebrated F1 champion and one of the most revered drivers in motorsports. Unfortunately, his Kurtis Kraft machine had just been left behind. height, and Fangio failed to reach competitive speed.
FIA Motorsport Games ready for return in 2022 (FIA)
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