F1 Snippets

09 March 2023

✺ F1 2022 revenue rises 20% to £2.19bn

✺ Horner lauds Red Bull for a ‘phenomenal’ start to 2023 but expects rivals’ to come back hard’ in future races.

✺ What now for Lewis Hamilton’s F1 future after Mercedes ditch car concept?

✺ The 2023 Formula 1 season will be the longest in the sport’s history.

✺ Lewis Hamilton gets F1 jewellery exemption amid’ concerns about disfigurement’.

✺ Charles Leclerc says, ‘time will tell if Ferrari made the right choices by reshuffling their F1 strategy department.

✺ Red Bull will not sell AlphaTauri, says Franz Tost, who says he received assurances from the company’s new boss.

✺ Max Verstappen has claimed that Red Bull has improved ‘everywhere’ with their new RB19 F1 car for the 2023 season.

✺ Hulkenberg says he was going through tyres ‘like a hot knife through butter’ after Bahrain Lap 1.

✺ Lewis Hamilton insists he remains committed to Mercedes and says there is ‘no hold up’ over a new contract.

✺ EU Court of Justice rules Nikita Mazepin can return to Formula 1.

✺ Red Bull chief Helmut Marko questions the legality of Fernando Alonso’s car in Bahrain.