F1 2022
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Mercedes change Hamilton's chassis after major crash damage
Lewis Hamilton will use a new chassis for the remainder of the Austrian Grand Prix weekend after his heavy crash in qualifying. Hamilton lost control of his W13 through the Red Bull Ring's high-speed Turn 7 during the Q3 phase, inflicting significant damage on the car – particularly the front and right-hand side. After assessing the situation, Mercedes have been carrying out a penalty-free chassis change, amongst other repairs.Hamilton had qualified 10th, with teammate George Russell fifth, but both will gain a position after a penalty for Red Bull's Sergio Perez. Hamilton brought out the red flags with his crash and, shortly after the session resumed, Russell went off at Turn 10, causing rear-end damage. It remains to be seen whether Hamilton and Russell will also take on new gearboxes, but team boss Toto Wolff admitted that the damage across his two cars was wide-ranging. "A lot of damage," Wolff bluntly summed up when speaking to media. "I think we have two floors, two boxes that we need to check, a rear wing... lots of little bits and pieces. Yesterday in the garage in the early evening it looked like somebody dropped a Lego car on the floor, and the mechanics are doing great work."
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Brundle: Leclerc has ‘had enough’ of Ferrari misfortune
Martin Brundle thinks Charles Leclerc is struggling to cope with the misfortune he has endured at Ferrari over the past five races. After a brilliant start to the season, winning two of the first three grands prix and finishing second in the other, little has gone right for Leclerc on Sundays. He was forced to retire while leading in Spain and Azerbaijan due to engine failures, while in Monaco and Britain botched strategies from the team meant potential victories turned into fourth-place finishes. As a result, from holding a healthy World Championship lead after his triumph in the Australian Grand Prix, Leclerc is now 43 points behind Max Verstappen, the main beneficiary of his travails, and nine adrift of the other Red Bull driver, Sergio Perez.The problems have clearly been getting to the 24-year-old, as evidenced by some tetchy team radio messages and a conversation after the British Grand Prix with team principal Mattia Binotto, who was seen wagging his finger at the Monegasque. The duo have subsequently cleared the air when Binotto travelled to Leclerc’s home Principality in the build-up to the Austrian Grand Prix. However, Brundle, speaking on Sky F1, believes there are palpable signs of Leclerc’s increasing frustration as so many chances to add to the four career F1 victories he has achieved go begging.
Speaking in response to footage of Binotto wagging his finger at Leclerc, Brundle said: “We all live life, we are all human beings and that’s not a Formula 1 story is it? We all know what the finger-wagging means. “Charles could be here today, I think, comfortably leading the World Championship actually. They (Ferrari) have messed up on strategy, they have messed up on reliability, he’s been on pole position six times, he’s so unbelievably fast. I’ll never know how he went so fast at Silverstone with a part of his front wing missing all the race as well, and he’s miles behind in the World Championship, not even second in the World Championship at the moment. So they need to manage down their superstar because I think he’s kind of had enough of things not running his way.”
Regarding his Monaco meeting with Binotto, Leclerc was reported as saying: “He was first quite angry with me after Silverstone because he saw me extremely down, which obviously he understood but he just wanted to make sure I was okay. Then in Monaco, something we usually do, he came to Monaco because the last five races have been quite hard on me, and I just wanted to stay at home and disconnect a bit from everything, to be fully 100% for this weekend. He just came to Monaco to speak about the last five races and to make sure it was all fine on my side.”
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The Spaniard eked out a slender 0.05s margin over his teammate as the Scuderia pair also dominated the lap count, combining to accrue more than 80 laps of data ahead of the Saturday race. Sprint race pole-sitter Verstappen, meanwhile, was closer to two tenths adrift of the headline times but did appear to show the most impressive long-run pace, as the Alpines moved ahead of his teammate Sergio Perez. It was with 25 minutes of the hour remaining that the Ferraris surged towards the top of the timing screens as they bolted on a set of the fastest-available C5 soft tyres. Leclerc buzzed the timing line in 1m08.660s to sit provisionally fastest and would not improve from there, as he dropped 0.9s over his next few laps to assess the durability of the red-walled tyre. With 18 minutes to run, then Sainz laid down the benchmark for the session, completing the 2.68-mile lap in 1m08.610s to find five hundredths over Leclerc and top the times. He was just two laps shy of Leclerc, 40 versus 42, but will start the sprint race from third place, one spot behind his teammate, the Monegasque eclipsed in qualifying by Verstappen late on.The defending champion ended the session third, dropping 0.168s adrift of the quickest Ferrari as Verstappen ended the practice running at Red Bull's home track on a 1m08.778s. Verstappen had set the pace during the early part of the session, when there was a focus on race pace, although teams did split between targeting the sprint contest or full grand prix. The Alfa Romeo, Haas and Aston Martin cars ventured out first in the hour-long morning run and were joined by the McLaren of Lando Norris, who gained an early tow from Leclerc across the line to post a 1m10.670s effort on medium tyres to initially head the pack. Verstappen did not join the action until five minutes in, with Red Bull seemingly placing an emphasis on the sprint race simulation by running on softs while Ferrari kept medium tyres. With the advantage of C5 compound, Verstappen's first representative effort stopped the clock at 1m09.170s to surpass Sainz by 0.3s and Leclerc, then running in third place. Verstappen then lowered that to a 1m09.067s to claw four tenths ahead and after being told to hold fifth gear between Turns 6 and 7, dipped into the 1m08s with a 1m08.966s effort. That placed Verstappen 0.2s ahead of Sainz's best early run as part of the race runs, with Leclerc 0.6s off the ultimate pace even if his stint average was quicker than his teammate.
Russell entered the session after 11 minutes following repairs to the floor and gearbox after his Q3 shunt at the final corner, the Mercedes emerging on soft tyres to run third quickest as part of the race runs. He sat on a 1m09.240s, 0.3s adrift of Verstappen, while splitting the Ferrari pair, who then allowed a couple of errors to slip in - Leclerc running off at Turn 3, Sainz locking up at T1. As Perez continued to miss out on the fight at the front of the leaderboard, it allowed the Alpines to come to the fore in the overall times as Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon traded places. It was eventually two-time champion Alonso that had the measure, lapping in 1m08.832s to find a narrow 0.16s over Ocon, with Perez ultimately sixth on a 1m09.179s. The Mexican will start the sprint race from 13th, having had his Q3 times deleted for a late track limits violation in Q2 that prevented Pierre Gasly from taking part in the top-10 shootout for sprint race pole. George Russell, the only driver to adopt the slowest hard tyre, was classified seventh.
Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton was ninth behind former stablemate Valtteri Bottas, the seven-time champion not emerging until just 14 minutes were left as a legacy of his hefty Q3 shunt. Hamilton only set one fast lap on the softs, posting a 1m09.350s to end up ninth ahead of Lando Norris, the McLaren making up lost time following its brake issues in Q2. Lance Stroll pipped Gasly, while Sebastian Vettel ran 13th fastest - his session including a run over the serrated kerb on the edge of the final corner to shed a chunk of carbon fibre. Zhou Guanyu was 14th fastest over Mick Schumacher, Alex Albon and Daniel Ricciardo as Kevin Magnussen, Yuki Tsunoda and Nicholas Latifi brought up the rear.
Results
| Pos. | No. | Driver | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 1:08.610 | 39 | |
| 2 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1:08.660 | +0.050s | 42 |
| 3 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing Rbpt | 1:08.778 | +0.168s | 31 |
| 4 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Alpine Renault | 1:08.832 | +0.222s | 20 |
| 5 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine Renault | 1:08.848 | +0.238s | 23 |
| 6 | 11 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing Rbpt | 1:09.179 | +0.569s | 36 |
| 7 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 1:09.240 | +0.630s | 32 |
| 8 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo Ferrari | 1:09.251 | +0.641s | 25 |
| 9 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:09.350 | +0.740s | 13 |
| 10 | 4 | Lando Norris | Mclaren Mercedes | 1:09.519 | +0.909s | 37 |
| 11 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes | 1:09.525 | +0.915s | 42 |
| 12 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alphatauri Rbpt | 1:09.579 | +0.969s | 36 |
| 13 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes | 1:09.602 | +0.992s | 43 |
| 14 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | Alfa Romeo Ferrari | 1:09.665 | +1.055s | 35 |
| 15 | 47 | Mick Schumacher | Haas Ferrari | 1:09.700 | +1.090s | 31 |
| 16 | 23 | Alexander Albon | Williams Mercedes | 1:09.740 | +1.130s | 33 |
| 17 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Mclaren Mercedes | 1:09.852 | +1.242s | 33 |
| 18 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas Ferrari | 1:09.960 | +1.350s | 33 |
| 19 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | Alphatauri Rbpt | 1:10.005 | +1.395s | 38 |
| 20 | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams Mercedes | 1:10.261 | +1.651s | 35 |
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Revised starting grid for the 2022 F1 Austrian GP Sprint
Position | Driver | Team |
|---|---|---|
1. | Verstappen | Red Bull |
2. | Leclerc | Ferrari |
3. | Sainz | Ferrari |
4. | Russell | Mercedes |
5. | Ocon | Alpine |
6. | Magnussen | Haas |
7. | Schumacher | Haas |
8. | Alonso | Alpine |
9. | Hamilton | Mercedes |
10. | Gasly | AlphaTauri |
11. | Albon | Williams |
12. | Bottas | Alfa Romeo |
13. | Perez* | Red Bull |
14. | Tsunoda | AlphaTauri |
15. | Norris | McLaren |
16. | Ricciardo | McLaren |
17. | Stroll | Aston Martin |
18. | Zhou | Alfa Romeo |
19. | Latifi | Williams |
20. | Vettel | Aston Martin |
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Limejuice
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Write out 100 lines: "I must invent good reasons to cancel social engagements at short notice."
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Missed all but the last few laps - how did Perez make up so many places, just raw pace?
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Sprint Results 2022 Austrian Grand Prix
Results (Classification):- Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing – 23 laps
- Charles Leclerc Scuderia Ferrari +1.675
- Carlos Sainz Scuderia Ferrari +5.644
- George Russell Mercedes +13.429
- Sergio Perez Red Bull Racing +18.302
- Esteban Ocon Alpine +31.032
- Kevin Magnussen Haas +34.539
- Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +35.447
- Mick Schumacher Haas +37.163
- Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo +37.163
- Lando Norris McLaren +38.580
- Daniel Ricciardo McLaren +39.738
- Lance Stroll Aston Martin +48.241
- Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo +50.753
- Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri +52.125
- Alex Albon Williams Racing +52.412
- Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri +54.556
- Nicholas Latifi Williams Racing +68.694
- Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin DNF
- Fernando Alonso Alpine DNS
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Raw pace
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right after this urgent rest
Mick Schumacher has come alive since Gunther Steiner gave him an ultimatum, hasn’t he? Looked quicker than Magnussen for most of the sprint, or maybe that’s just the DRS effect.
I’m a bit cynical about drivers who only perform once their seat is under threat. Used to be a Raikkonen trick, didn’t it?
I’m a bit cynical about drivers who only perform once their seat is under threat. Used to be a Raikkonen trick, didn’t it?
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aye and helped by gasly and Hamilton taken themselves out of his way
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mick is not Michael
but does appear to come good in his second season
if you follow his history in lower formula
rules also changes this year another year to see if the fella can even do a Damion Hill
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Dutch not covering themselves in glory here.
www.theguardian.com
Early on Sunday morning an increasing number of reports were made, citing aggressive misogyny towards female fans, with some saying they felt scared by the atmosphere. Others referred to homophobic slurs and the use of the N-word. Many of the reports referenced the stands where Max Verstappen fans were gathered en masse.
Lewis Hamilton condemns reports of sexist and racist harassment of F1 fans
Formula One has condemned the harassment of fans in Austria, reacting to reports on social media of sexist catcalling, racist and homophobic abuse and inappropriate touching of female fans
Early on Sunday morning an increasing number of reports were made, citing aggressive misogyny towards female fans, with some saying they felt scared by the atmosphere. Others referred to homophobic slurs and the use of the N-word. Many of the reports referenced the stands where Max Verstappen fans were gathered en masse.
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George Russell demands F1 race director change in wake of fiery drivers' meeting
George Russell advocated for a return to one single race director after a 2022 season affected by some inconsistent decision-making. Michael Masi was axed after the way the 2021 title was controversially decided in Abu Dhabi, as the FIA acted after pressure from Mercedes. In his place came two others, who share the role by alternating between race weekends. Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas are those with the unenviable task of controlling Formula 1 races. While the general consensus is that it takes time to adjust and that some small errors are to be expected, more and more drivers and team bosses feel key decisions have been too inconsistent this year.Russell is the latest racer to add his voice to that point of view, on a weekend when breaches of track limits were enforced more harshly during qualifying than has been the case at other races this season. Sebastian Vettel faced disciplinary action after storming out of a drivers' briefing on the subject on Friday. "I agree we need to stick to one race director," said the Brit. "We need to have a bit more consistency with the stewarding. We come to the following event and often the steward at the previous event isn't there. So there's no accountability, no explanations of decisions. We ask questions and it's difficult to get a straightforward answer because almost a bit blame is being put onto someone else who isn't there. So it's tricky. Everyone has their own interpretations. I think when you have one race director, things can generally be more consistent."
Sergio Perez was the driver most affected by the stricter application of tracks limits rules in qualifying on Friday. His hot lap in Q2 was deemed to be illegal, and so all his Q3 times were scrubbed and he was bumped down from fourth to 13th on the starting grid for the Sprint. The Mexican lamented that the call had come so late : "It is disappointing to lose fourth place, the track limits are very tight here this season, but it is frustrating that the team weren't told my lap time had been deleted during Q2," he said.
And Christian Horner also felt such a large punishment was "very harsh", adding: "It should have been dealt with before Q3 to enable us to improve subsequent performance." Fortunately for Red Bull, Perez drove brilliantly during the Sprint and made up eight places to make sure he starts the race itself from fifth.
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The press are generally refraining from pointing the finger at a particular set of fans. But every stand seems to be a sea of Orange Army fans...Dutch not covering themselves in glory here.
Lewis Hamilton condemns reports of sexist and racist harassment of F1 fans
Formula One has condemned the harassment of fans in Austria, reacting to reports on social media of sexist catcalling, racist and homophobic abuse and inappropriate touching of female fans
Early on Sunday morning an increasing number of reports were made, citing aggressive misogyny towards female fans, with some saying they felt scared by the atmosphere. Others referred to homophobic slurs and the use of the N-word. Many of the reports referenced the stands where Max Verstappen fans were gathered en masse.
Is this the Austria GP's famous "raucous atmosphere", or an accumulation of boorishness?
One of the telly bods said individual drivers needed to speak out, especially to their own fans. Picquet-gate suggests that Max will say fuck-all until he has no other option.
Come on, F1, we're better than this.
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Sebastian Vettel receives hefty fine for drivers' meeting behaviour
Sebastian Vettel has been hit with huge fine of $25,000 ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix after storming out of the drivers’ meeting with Formula One bosses and team bosses, after becoming disgruntled with Fernando Alonso. The German isn’t afraid to make headlines, wearing t-shirts representing his feelings about political and global issues, although he has been advised against making these statements. He’ll be starting on the back two rows of the grid along with Alonso, with the German P18 and the Spaniard P19, could the pair tussle again but this time on track?Vettel didn’t finish the Sprint race after colliding with Alex Albon, sending him to the back end of the grid with lots of work to do should he have any success in the race later today. Max Verstappen waltzed to victory at the home GP for his team, with both Ferraris tussling it out behind him, giving him an easy afternoon on Saturday. There’s still plenty of racing to be had later this afternoon in Austria, let’s hope for more drama after the enthralling British GP last time out at Silverstone. Alonso was allegedly moaning about penalties he received two months ago, leaving the four-time world champion fuming. So much so he had to storm out of the meeting, an expensive response too!
Formula One released a statement on the incident with Vettel which read: “Drivers are not free to leave when they want, this being a breach of the requirement to attend. “Drivers at this level are role models for every driver around the world and in the opinion of the stewards, Vettel failed to live up to that standard in this case. The stewards determine that there is a breach, which cannot go without penalty, but that based on the report there are factors in mitigation. Therefore, the stewards order a fine of €25,000, which is suspended for the remainder of the 2022 season.”
Vettel will be hoping his frustrations can be taken out on track as he looks to carve his way through the grid, although a revival is unlikely with the struggles of Aston Martin this season. After missing the start through COVID, he hasn’t finished higher than sixth and has four pointless races already. He’ll need more luck than he had in the Sprint race should he do anything, but you can never count out a four-time world champion.
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Angela Cullen: Physio, friend and rock for F1 great Lewis Hamilton
Look at any photo of Lewis Hamilton and you will probably see Angela Cullen in the picture too. The seven-time Formula 1 world champion and his physiotherapist are inseparable on grand prix weekends, almost always together when Hamilton is not in the car. Cullen works as Hamilton’s physio and assistant, but the two are firm friends and she is considered the 37-year-old’s confidante. In fact, the two are so close they share matching tattoos! Cullen is 10 years older than Hamilton at 47, having been born on August 5, 1974 and raised in a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand before moving to the United Kingdom. She now lives in the Alps region of France, but spends half the year travelling to races all around the globe with Hamilton and Mercedes.Angela Cullen and a career in F1
Cullen has worked as Hamilton’s physiotherapist and assistant since the start of the 2016 F1 season. Like many performance coaches working in the sport, she is part of the Hintsa Performance Company, which was founded by fitness guru, the late Dr Aki Hintsa. Angela joined Hintsa in 2015 and was appointed to Hamilton’s team the following year. She also developed a close relationship with Hamilton’s former manager Marc Hynes, who stepped down as chief executive of the driver’s ‘Project 44’ management company in 2021 to pursue other business opportunities.
During Hamilton’s most recent title-winning season in 2020, the trio were often inseparable, but since Hynes’ exit Cullen is seen as Hamilton’s closest ally in the sport. If you are expecting us to guess at Angela’s net worth or salary in this article by the way, don’t. Wherever possible, we endeavour to deal with credible fact and not speculation based on complete guesswork.
What did Angela Cullen do before F1?
A New Zealand native, Cullen studied health science and physiotherapy at Auckland University of Technology and played hockey at international level for her country between the ages of 15 and 21. She also played netball, football, cricket, volleyball and basketball and was a keen swimmer growing up. After qualifying from university, she moved to London where she worked at the English Institute of Sport. Her work there involved dealing with the British Olympic team, with the 4x100m relay team taking gold at the Athens Games in 2004.
She refers to 100m and 200m sprinters as the “F1 of athletics”, stating that her “role was like the engineer or mechanic working closely with the athlete; fine-tuning their body to optimise their performance in terms of speed, power, mobility and control”. She has also worked with High Performance Sport NZ and the New Zealand Academy of Sport. In 2015, Cullen took up a position at Hintsa, after previously hearing about Dr Aki Hintsa’s work with Ethiopian runners, Olympic athletes and F1 drivers. At Hintsa, she became the first woman to work as an F1 performance coach.
Husband and family
Cullen, her husband and their two children live in the Rhône-Alps region of France. She has a son and a daughter with husband Silas Cullen, who is a cycling coach.
Hobbies and interests
When travelling to races, Cullen often runs in her downtime. She calls this her ‘meditation’ but it also allows her to explore the cities and countries she visits. She also loves cycling and spent 2006 touring South America, starting at the southernmost tip of the world in Ushuaia and finishing at the top of Colombia. Cullen plans to continue her cycling tour one day, aiming to go all the way to Alaska and eventually cycle across the rest of the continents. When the 2020 Australian Grand Prix was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, both Hamilton and Cullen stayed in Australia to go rock climbing together.
What Lewis Hamilton has said about her
Hamilton describes Cullen as ‘one of the greatest things’ to happen to him, hailing her work ethic as well as her positivity. "People won’t understand it, naturally, because they see it from a distance, but she has been one of the greatest things that’s happened to me in my life,” he said in 2020. “I’ve been fortunate to work with a lot of people and she’s the single hardest-working woman that I get to be around. She’s focused, selfless, and she makes my weekends peaceful. Every day I wake up, whatever time it is, she’s just positive - never a single day has she been negative, so that’s very, very important.”
Hinsta director of coaching and sports science Pete McKnight has praised the partnership, saying Cullen is so much more than a physio. “It has worked out perfectly,” McKnight told MSN. “People don’t always ‘get’ the performance environment, but she does. She understands that it’s performance first. It’s her level of experience, too. She has worked with top-level British track runners, and she just knows how to put the athlete first. Sometimes you get physios who are more interested in the therapy than they are in the athlete. Angela is a good physio and she understands her trade very well, but she puts Lewis first. There’s also just something quirky about it: a woman in her mid-forties, with a family at home, two young kids, and then there’s this mid-thirties racing driver. It might seem a really weird match, but it just works.”
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Thanks for that, often wondered about her and her background.
