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In the round-up: George Russell says he is far more interested in winning races than finishing as runner-up in the world championship. In brief Russell wants wins, not second in championship Advert | Become a Supporter & go ad-free Russell, whose best championship position in F1 is 15th, lies fourth in the standings with six races to go, 16 points behind second-placed Charles Leclerc . However taking that runner-up spot “doesn’t mean a huge amount,” he admitted. “Nobody remembers who finishes second in the championship. “If you’re given a choice between winning a couple of races this year and finishing outside the top three, or winning no races and finishing second, I would choose the race wins. “We’ll take it, we’ll definitely take it for the team, obviously we’re going to try and beat Ferrari in the championship but for me I’m here to win and unfortunately that’s a bit out of reach in terms of the championship.” No Pau Grand Prix for Euroformula in … [Read more...] about RaceFans Round-up: Russell wants wins more than second in points

Yuki Tsunoda says he and AlphaTauri have reassessed their targets for the season after a difficult 2022 campaign. Having ended his rookie season by helping AlphaTauri reach sixth in the 2021 Constructors’ Championship, Tsunoda would have had every expectation that he might kick on in 2022. But the reality has been far from that. The Japanese driver is on 11 points, just under a third of what he scored in 2021, and has failed to finish in the top 10 since the sixth race of the season. It is not Tsunoda alone that is struggling and the experienced Pierre Gasly is only on 22 points so far this campaign, suggesting the problems lie with the car rather than the drivers. With six races to go , AlphaTauri will be looking back as much as they are looking forward in the Constructors’ Championship . Haas remain one point ahead while Aston Martin are eight points behind. Tsunoda admitted the team have had to lower their expectations and said a P7 finish would be a realistic … [Read more...] about Yuki Tsunoda sets out his targets for remaining six races of the F1 2022 season

Mattia Binotto has admitted Ferrari are missing the drive to succeed injected into the team by Michael Schumacher during their golden era. Ferrari dominated Formula 1 during the first half-decade of this century, capturing six consecutive Constructors’ titles from 1999-2004 while Schumacher was the Drivers’ champion in the last five of those years. They completed the double again in 2007 with Kimi Raikkonen and retained the Constructors’ crown the year after, but this season is set to be the 14th in a row without a title going to the Scuderia. It all looked like being so different when Charles Leclerc won two of this campaign’s first three races and finished a close second in the other, but that hope has unravelled with Ferrari bedevilled by a series of mistakes and reliability problems. Of course, back at the turn of the millennium, the Italian giants had one of the all-time greats in Schumacher pushing the team on – and although Leclerc and Carlos Sainz are among the … [Read more...] about Ferrari concede they are ‘missing winning mentality of Michael Schumacher era’