The big 2022 challenge forcing some F1 teams to change their liveries
If you look closely at some of the 2022 Formula 1 cars now compared to how they looked when they were launched, you will see some subtle differences. We’re used to the cars themselves changing as aerodynamic upgrades are introduced in pursuit of improved performance. But some teams have made...
What McLaren must do to build on its early-2022 F1 revival
McLaren had a dreadful start to 2022, with a car short of downforce unable even to qualify in the top 10 in the first two races of the season in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. But things improved dramatically in Australia. Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo both qualified in the top seven, and...
Why Aston Martin has gone backwards in F1 2022
This video is sponsored by GridRival. To download the GridRival app visit: https://bit.ly/3qcUSeO To join The Race fantasy league use this link: https://gridrival.app.link/20iWm3Nagob For the second year in a row, Aston Martin is grappling with a problem seriously holding back its Formula 1...
How fast are F1's new 2022 cars compared to 2021? 3D lap analysis
Ever since Formula 1’s new rules were announced back in 2019, there’s been an obsession with how fast the new breed of cars would be compared with the previous generation that raced from 2017 to 2021. In Bahrain we got our first real comparison at the end of qualifying. Low fuel, fresh...
McLaren's shock discovery that it's 'a long way off' in F1 2022
This season is meant to be the next step in McLaren’s Formula 1 revival. But it has started with both cars fighting to avoid being last in the season opener. And the worrying thing for the team is that the message afterwards is that this could be its true performance level in the short-term....
Why there's huge variety in F1 teams' sidepods for 2022
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Ranking the teams after 2022 F1 testing
Quick as a flash, Formula 1 testing is over, the 2022 season is upon us - and the question we all want to know the answer to is: who is fastest? The final leaderboard is a little misleading so we have gone way beyond that by scrutinising the headline laptimes, analysing long runs, watching...
Red Bull reveals F1 upgrades as radical Mercedes faces scrutiny
All eyes were on Red Bull on the final day of pre-season testing in Bahrain, following talk of a major upgrade that could transform Formula 1’s competitive order. And while its car changes weren’t as extreme as those deployed by Mercedes at the start of the test - part of which could face a...
McLaren's 'race against time' and Williams's melted F1 suspension
McLaren’s pre-season preparations have suffered a blow in Bahrain, with the team finding itself in a “race against time” to complete some vital work before the Formula 1 season begins. McLaren is the first big hitter to be hit by a sustained problem in testing but as we’ll explain in...
How Kevin Magnussen landed a shock F1 return with Haas for 2022
Kevin Magnussen looked to be firmly in the camp of ‘exiled F1 driver’ after he lost his drive at the end of 2020 because Haas needed paying drivers. But with Nikita Mazepin axed between the 2022 pre-season tests, Haas needed a replacement. And it has turned to the same driver it had to move...
Mercedes' radical new F1 sidepods spark 2022's first tech debate
While Red Bull’s sidepods were the big talking point of the first pre-season Formula 1 test of 2022, Mercedes has resoundingly stolen its thunder with its ultra-narrow, super shrink-wrapped design that has appeared in Bahrain this week. But how has Mercedes achieved this, how are they...
Which teams will bring big updates for the Bahrain F1 test?
Formula 1’s second pre-season test kicks off in Bahrain on Thursday and offers the 10 teams their final opportunity to fettle their cars ahead of the first race of the season. Although the test starts after a gap of just 12 days since Barcelona, every team will have some new parts and...
Why there are calls for banned active suspension to return to F1
Active suspension was banned from Formula 1 28 years ago. But since the new 2022 Formula 1 cars ran for the first time, there have been suggestions it should return. This is because of the problem of cars porpoising, which was the technical talking point of the first pre-season test in...
Why 2022 is a massive year for F1's engine fight
Formula 1’s 2022 regulations impact every part of the car. But with the focus very much on the aerodynamic design, it’s easy to overlook the fact this is also a critical season for engine development. The power unit regulations are largely unchanged in terms of technical detail. But the...
How McLaren has beaten F1 2022's major car problem
Porpoising was the big talking point of the first pre-season Formula 1 test in Barcelona, with everyone afflicted by it to a greater or lesser extent. But the team that seemed least concerned about the situation was McLaren. Thanks to the sharp eye of our technical expert Gary Anderson, and the...
How fast the new 2022 F1 cars really are
Formula 1 pre-season testing confirmed something that team development curves have been hinting at for a while - the 2022 cars are looking seriously quick. Back at the initial presentation of this new technical ruleset in late 2019, the FIA’s simulations from detailed research into the new...
10 things we learned from the first F1 test of 2022
F1 didn't want to call its three days of pre-season running at Barcelona a 'test', but let's not pretend: this was F1 testing, pure and simple. While the laptimes from any test can be spectacularly misleading, that doesn't mean everything that happens should be ignored. The Race had a team of...
The unexpected car problem F1 teams are battling in pre-season testing
Modern F1 teams are always super-prepared for a new season, even in a year like 2022 where the cars are designed to brand new rules. But there was one element that proved very difficult to simulate ahead of the cars running on the track for real. The problem is known as porpoising. And it is a...
What Red Bull was hiding with its fake F1 2022 car launch
When Red Bull launched a show car earlier this month, then didn’t release anything from its shakedown, it was clear that Adrian Newey’s latest creation was being kept as secret as possible, for as long as possible. As soon as the car appeared, it became very clear why Red Bull wanted to...
How Alpine has tried to 'express ourselves aerodynamically' with 2022 F1 car
Brought to you by Aramco: https://bit.ly/3gnRAQA Alpine launched the new A522 in Paris with a notable absentee - the car itself. That’s because the real thing is being hastily assembled in Barcelona ahead of a filming day scheduled to take place on Tuesday - the day before the start of...
Lewis Hamilton's punchy 2022 promise after he 'lost faith' in F1
We went two months without hearing from Lewis Hamilton after Formula 1’s controversial 2021 season finale - but the seven-time world champion is on punchy form heading into 2022, and made it worth the wait. From admitting he lost a bit of faith in F1 after the way he missed out on victory and...
Why Mercedes needed 'a huge internal redesign' for its 2022 F1 car
Brought to you by Aramco: https://bit.ly/3J32nMA The new Mercedes F1 car - back in its Silver Arrows livery after two years in black - was revealed prior to being shaken down at a stormy Silverstone on Friday, with George Russell the first to get behind the wheel during its filming day. Lewis...
Why Ferrari thinks its 2022 F1 car is a ‘brave’ design
Brought to you by Aramco: https://bit.ly/3ISFTh8 The Ferrari F1-75 - named in celebration of 75 years of the Prancing Horse - is the car Formula 1’s most famous team hopes will propel it back into title contention. It’s certainly pulled out all of the stops thanks to what team principal...
The Red Bull hints in AlphaTauri’s 2022 F1 car
Brought to you by Aramco: https://bit.ly/32UfMXE AlphaTauri wasn’t quite as secretive as big brother Red Bull when it released its 2022 AT03 F1 car on Monday. While there are clearly some areas of the car the Italian team doesn’t want to show before the real car hits the track for testing,...
Red Bull RB18 2022 F1 car launch
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What Haas launch tells us about the new 2022 F1 cars
Welcome to the Aramco 2022 F1 Car Reveal Series - https://bit.ly/3unBvTf The first 2022 Formula 1 car has broken cover. Although the images that have been released of the Haas VF-22 are computer renderings, they do show the genuine design of the car – or at least, as much of it as Haas wants...
The biggest technical rule changes in Formula 1 history
Massive rule changes on the scale we’re seeing in 2022 in Formula 1 are rare. Although they have become a little more frequent in recent times, it’s still unusual for there to be overhauls so widespread that it impacts not just the look of the cars, but even sometimes the style of racing and...
Who is best placed to challenge Mercedes and Red Bull in F1 2022
F1’s 2022 rule changes are the most significant in years. You don’t have to take our word for that, as no less than Adrian Newey has described this as “the biggest single regulation change” in four decades. So that means there’s a big opportunity for the teams who were not in the title...
What’s behind fresh Lewis Hamilton 2022 F1 rumours amid FIA stand-off
The silence on Lewis Hamilton’s Formula 1 future has been deafening since Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff described him as “disillusioned” in the wake of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix controversy. It appears Hamilton is genuinely yet to make a decision on returning to Formula 1 this year...
Ranking the 2022 F1 driver line-ups from worst to best
Formula 1 is preparing for a new season with brand new cars built to a new set of rules. While we wait to see what the latest generation of F1 machinery will look like, we've stripped away the impact of the cars to rank each driver line-up. There aren't as many changes on the grid as there were...
What Ferrari's two-year F1 'reconstruction' means for its 2022 hopes
Ferrari is on the brink of clinching third in the 2021 F1 constructors’ championship, but regardless of the final standings, what matters is that it has taken a big step forward this year in what Ferrari racing director Laurent Mekies has described as its "reconstruction". Much has changed at...
F1’s latest plans for its controversial sprint races revealed
F1's sprint race weekend format trials in 2021 have not been universally welcomed by fans, but the championship's bosses are satisfied enough with the response to them (and demand from race promoters) to double the number of sprint events from three to six for next year. Having heard from Ross...
Why F1's 2022 cars will be quicker than anyone expected
When F1's blueprint for its next-generation of car rules was revealed in 2019, the expectation was that the cars could be more than three seconds slower than the current generation that they'll be replacing. But as the time draws closer for these radically different machines to hit the track, it...
The tech overhaul Haas hopes will turn its F1 fortunes around
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The key elements F1 teams will try to carry over into 2022's radical new rules
F1 has new rules coming in 2022 that will transform the design of the cars. But despite the changes being so big that every car for next year is effectively a ‘clean sheet of paper’, teams can’t forget everything that they’ve learned under the current rules, and they’ll go into the new...
The biggest threat to F1's 2022 rules revolution succeeding
F1 is introducing huge changes to its cars for 2022 in a bid to improve the racing and make it more affordable for teams to build competitive cars. Those are clearly good intentions, but will it work? In this video Edd Straw explains how all of F1’s well made plans could be undone if one...
What we learned from F1’s 2022 car launch
Formula 1 revealed a full-scale version of its 2022 concept car ahead of the British Grand Prix. So was it just a bigger version of the renders and windtunnel model we saw in 2019, or was there something else to it? In this video we explain why F1 did this, what’s changed since we last saw...
Ferrari's bold choice for its 2022 F1 engine explained
Ferrari has committed to the engine design it will adopt for 2022, which will carry its F1 hopes for three seasons until new rules come in for 2025. Following rumours about the technical decisions Ferrari would make in its bid to have a truly competitive engine again, Scott Mitchell explains the...
