Year: 2022

29 Dec 2022

Why 18-inch F1 tyres hindered McLaren's 2022 progress

The switch to 18-inch tyres was a major part of this year’s revised technical package, although they were often overlooked during the season as attention switched to porpoising and the aerodynamic impact of the new rules.However, Stella admits that the team wasn’t able to “mitigate” the impact of the new tyres as effectively as its […]

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29 Dec 2022

The pressure awaiting MotoGP's reformed winner in 2023

The nine-time MotoGP race winner acrimoniously split with Yamaha midway through the 2021 season and found refuge at Aprilia.His adaptation to the RS-GP was initially very difficult, as Vinales had never ridden a bike in the premier class built around a V4 engine – which has completely different handling characteristics, and therefore requires a different […]

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29 Dec 2022

Response to “horrendous” Zhou crash just a human reaction

Subscribe and access Autosport.com with your ad-blocker. From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to […]

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29 Dec 2022

Autosport 2022 Top 50: #4 Lewis Hamilton

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29 Dec 2022

Alonso: Alpine F1 reliability struggles not comparable to McLaren-Honda

Alonso finished his second season since returning to F1 ninth in the championship, but rued a number of missed opportunities due to recurring reliability problems that emerged throughout the season.The Spaniard was open in his frustration about the problems Alpine faced at times, believing it had cost him dozens of points that resulted in a […]

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28 Dec 2022

Ranking the 10 greatest BMW Motorsport machines

For half a century, BMW’s motorsport division has been producing fantastic cars. It’s main areas of success have been on the road and in touring car racing, but it’s also taken big victories in sportscar competition and Formula 1.To help mark its 50th birthday, we decided to pick out the 10 best BMW Motorsport machines […]

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28 Dec 2022

F1 2022 Tech Review: Ferrari’s race-winner falls short in the end

However, a combination of poor reliability, strategy and driver errors, and rapid progress from Red Bull, meant that the team was unable to sustain its championship challenge for long enough.But although its title hopes faded, that did not stop it trying to continue to eke out performance from its 2022 challenger. Ferrari airbox detailPhoto by: […]

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28 Dec 2022

Autosport 2022 Top 50: #5 George Russell

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