F1 information LIVE: Lewis Hamilton’s future nonetheless unsure after groups’ crunch talks with FIA

Pirelli 28 days of final 12 months testing a brand new 18-inch tyre, which might be launched in 2022. Some have feared that the brand new compounds would result in considerably slower automobiles, however Mario Isola – Pirelli’s Head of F1 and Automobile Racing – was inspired by check outcomes utilizing mule automobiles from 9 of the ten System 1 groups.

“When it comes to put on, it’s troublesome to make a prediction as a result of we have been utilizing mule automobiles, so we have to anticipate the actual efficiency of the brand new 2022 automobiles,” Isola defined.

“We’ve simulations coming from the groups, simulations are telling us that the brand new automobiles usually are not a lot slower in comparison with final 12 months’s automobiles.

“At the start we have been speaking about greater than three seconds per lap; now it’s half a second, one second, so if they begin with just one second distinction it implies that throughout the season they in all probability obtain the identical degree of efficiency that we had in 2021.”

The FIA appointed a brand new president in December, with Mohammed bin Sulayem succeeding Jean Todt on the prime of the governing physique having been a vice-president since 2008. He’s the primary president from outdoors Europe within the organisation’s historical past – 4 Frenchmen, three Belgians, two Brits, an Italian and an Austrian, if you’re counting – and bin Sulayem has been in London for some conferences with System 1.

Sky Sports activities are trying again on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix over the previous few days, a couple of month on from the dramatic desert denouement to the 2021 F1 season. Damon Hill has been speaking about that controversial ending – and recommended that Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes could also be proper to really feel aggrieved…

It’s Jenson Button’s birthday as we speak, with the 2009 World Champion turning 42. It appears a great alternative to alleviate certainly one of his most well-known wins – holding his nerve to overhaul a sliding Sebastian Vettel in 2011.

Again to Zak Brown, who will not be blissful in any respect concerning the makes an attempt of some groups to dam the growth of the favored dash race format in an try to carry out for extra money.

Brown believes {that a} proposed doubling of the variety of dash race occasions for subsequent season could not happen.

It was introduced in June final 12 months that well-regarded aerodynamicist Dan Fallows can be leaving Crimson Bull to take up the function of technical director at Aston Martin, however since there was a mighty squabble over when Fallows would be capable of begin work together with his new group. A cumbersome contract might have meant Fallows remaining in his present put up for an prolonged interval, with Christian Horner saying final 12 months that “it actually received’t be throughout the subsequent couple of years”.

Nicely, now it is going to. The 2 groups have lastly reached an settlement that may see Fallows begin at Aston Martin on April 2, quickly after the beginning of the brand new season on March 20.

Fallows, who will bring to a halt a greater than 15-year affiliation with Crimson Bull, stated he’s excited to get to work: “I’ve loved many blissful years at Crimson Bull Racing and am pleased with what we achieved. I’m trying ahead to subsequent season and a brand new problem.”

The transfer reunites Fallows with Sebastian Vettel.

Extra on the seven-time world champion in a bit, however his soon-to-be Mercedes colleague George Russell has been having fun with a jaunt to Germany and a go to to the headquarters of his new group.

Let’s start with Zak Brown, who had a fairly prolonged natter at a press convention yesterday on all method of F1 matters.

The McLaren chief government wouldn’t be stunned if Lewis Hamilton retires…

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