In the round-up: Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc says he wants to help offer opportunities to young karters who lack the means to progress into higher level competition
In brief
Leclerc eager to support young karting talent in future
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc says he wants to help offer opportunities to young karters who lack the means to progress into higher level competition.
Leclerc, who will enter into his fifth season with Ferrari in 2023, won the FIA’s junior KF3 karting world cup back in 2011 and finished second in the world KZ championship in 2013, beaten by Max Verstappen. The Ferrari driver says he would like to be able to support emerging karting talent in the future.
“I would like to help talented young people, who don’t have the means, to emerge and make their dreams come true,” Leclerc told Gazzetta “But it is a project that takes time and which I therefore see as possible only in the future”.
Verstappen and Perez among the “very best” Red Bull pairing – Horner
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says that the combination of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez is among the best pairing the team has ever had.
Perez joined Verstappen at Red Bull in 2021. In two seasons together, Verstappen has won the world championship in both years and Red Bull were crowned constructors’ champions last season.
“We’ve been fortunate we’ve had some great drivers that we’ve worked with over the years and the current pairing of Max and Checo is right up there with the very best of them,” Horner said
“Occasionally it spills over, but not that often. We’ve been fortunate over the years that you could probably name on one hand the incidences that we’ve had between team mates. Generally they’ve worked they’ve worked extremely well together.”
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“I’m a part of it, part of the discussions. I’m working with Michael every day. I’m in constant contact with the president of the FIA (Mohammed Ben Sulayem). We’ve been working together on part of it. I knew all of the events coming.”
GM’s Reuss explains drive behind F1 plans for Cadillac (RACER)
“Never happened in our history — it’s very, very exciting for us to be with Andretti. And if given the opportunity, GM and Cadillac will compete with the very best at the very highest levels with passion and integrity that will continue to elevate the sport for the FIA and race fans around the world.”
Newey reveals ‘pretty depressing’ reason for Red Bull’s early turbo-hybrid struggles (F1)
“(You need to) have a decent engine. We went into the hybrid era and Renault got it wrong, so that was pretty depressing. You realised that in your foreseeable future if you do a spectacular job, you might snatch the odd win, but you’re never going to win a championship.”
‘I lived with Lando Norris – we had simulators in lounge, but he had bad habits’ (Daily Star)
“It was a dream. I’m not going to say it was the healthiest life that we had, because it was all-day long simulator, all-day long playing games. But we were training a lot with our trainer, so we were training a lot and playing a lot. It was fun.”
BIC introduces exclusive new hospitality offerings for grand prix (Daily Tribune)
“This year, from what we saw from our Early Bird sales, we are capitalising on what we achieved last year of more international fans coming to Bahrain. We have doubled at least from what we sold in the Early Bird before and this is a really good indication for us.”
Five things testing taught us ahead of Mexico City (Formula E)
“Despite welcoming two new rookies for Season 9, over 80% of the current grid have secured podiums in the championship. Even then, Formula E newbie Jake Hughes looked quick and only dropped out of the top ten once in his NEOM McLaren during testing, finishing the test fourth-fastest overall.”
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