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With that, we’re taking a short summer break. We also need to recover a bit this weekend, so there won’t be a live ticker this time. On Monday, however, we’ll be back for you in full freshness.

For this week, Norman Fischer says goodbye and wishes you a happy weekend!

Williams had plenty of reason to celebrate in Hungary. With seventh and eighth places, Nicholas Latifi and George Russell both scored points and achieved the best finishes of their careers.

You can watch how the Williams crew experienced the exciting race behind the scenes in this video. Great scenes!

In our video, we already compiled everything worth knowing about the disqualification on Monday. There you can inform yourself again about what it’s all about.

Charles Leclerc is also quite satisfied with the season so far. Compared to the disastrous previous season, in which Ferrari only finished sixth, they are much better positioned this year.

“Better than expected,” he summarizes Ferrari’s season so far. “There’s a lot of work behind it, and of course I can see that every time I’m in Maranello and here at the track. So it’s not a complete surprise.”

“It shows that we’re doing something right with our work,” the Monegasque continues. “But that’s not the end of the line, and we’ve set ourselves the goal of getting back to the top.”

He also gets along well with his new teammate Carlos Sainz: “It’s going very, very well. We push each other, he’s very, very competitive, which is great for me,” he praises.

Carlos Sainz is considered one of the positive revelations of the first half of the season and is even ahead of his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc in the championship. Nevertheless, the Spaniard is not entirely satisfied, as he says he has not yet managed a truly perfect weekend.

“As a Ferrari driver, I haven’t put a whole weekend together yet. And that’s something I used to be very good at,” he says. “And for some reason, it just takes time.”

The best example for him is the weekend in Hungary. Despite finishing third, he is frustrated because it could have gone even better. In qualifying, he had a bad starting position after his accident. In addition, there was a small mishap during the pit stop.

“And suddenly the whole weekend doesn’t taste so good anymore, because I feel like we could have scored more points,” he says. “So this weekend is a very good example of how the first ten, eleven races have felt.”

However, he is satisfied with other things: with his integration at Ferrari and that he felt fast on every track from the start. “I felt like I had control of the car and was able to push it to the limit.”

Only the 100 percent execution is still missing for him…

Formula 1 generated higher revenues in the second quarter of 2021 than in the previous year, but remained below the values of the last “normal” season of 2019 – also because a large part of the races were completed without or with a limited number of spectators.

In 2020, income in the three months from April to June was only 24 million US dollars. At that time, however, the entire first half of the year was canceled due to the Corona crisis. This year, on the other hand, 501 million US dollars were earned in the three months. In 2019, the value was 620 million.

This also resulted in an overall loss of 36 million dollars in that quarter (previous year: 122 million dollars loss).

Revenues are expected to continue to rise in the July-September period due to increased fan presence and new hospitality opportunities.

A bit of Formula 1 flair will also be present in Tokyo when the Paralympics take place. The Japanese Tomoya Ito will compete in a racing wheelchair that was developed in cooperation between RDS Corporation and Alphatauri and bears the design of the racing team.

Work on the RDS WF01TR AT01 began back in 2017 and has some parallels to a Formula 1 car. There, too, research is constantly being carried out to make the material even lighter and even better.

You can find out the exact status and who is close to a penalty in our overview on de.motorsport.com.

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A new part has been added to the list of permitted engine parts for some time now: the exhaust. Teams are allowed to use eight exhaust systems per driver in a season, otherwise there will be a penalty, as with all other engine elements.

The situation looks bad for Alpine. Fernando Alonso is already on his fifth, Hungary winner Esteban Ocon even on his seventh. For comparison: the two Mercedes have only used two.

“We had a problem at the beginning of the year, which is why we limited the mileage with our exhaust to avoid risking damage in the race,” explains Executive Director Marcin Budkowski. “That’s why we used a few at the beginning of the season to minimize the risk.”

However, they now believe they have the problem under control and assume that they can manage it for the rest of the season – also because they can still fall back on old parts. “We don’t expect any penalties this season,” says Budkowski.

Our editor-in-chief Christian Nimmervoll remembers his visit to Spielberg with his friend Peter in 1998 – in style with an Alexander Wurz cap. Do you also have memories of visits to the track? Feel free to share them with us!

Daniel Ricciardo has been in Formula 1 for ten years now – a long time. Although at 32 he is far from being in the range of a Kimi Räikkönen, he is no longer the youngest either. In an interview with our Italian colleagues from ‘Motorsport.com’, he now reveals what would drive him to end his career.

“I’ve always considered myself successful. But if I’m constantly outside the points and not in the right team or whatever, then I’m not sure I’d still enjoy it,” he says. Then he would probably say goodbye.

However, this is not acute despite a difficult year at McLaren: “At the moment, I certainly see a few more years ahead of me.”

In Italy, RTL will broadcast a Formula 1 race on free TV for the next time. Long-time presenter Florian König will not be there. Sports presenter Laura Papendick will take his place.

Track reporter Kai Ebel and the commentators of the broadcast, Heiko Wasser and Christian Danner, will be with her. Former F1 driver and current Aston Martin reserve driver, Nico Hülkenberg, will act as an expert.

Whether König will return is open. He will be the new presenter of the football talk show Doppelpass. It airs every Sunday at 11 a.m. – bad times for an engagement in Formula 1.

For Alfa Romeo, Hungary was a weekend to forget. Although they still managed to score their third point due to Sebastian Vettel’s disqualification, because Williams scored ten points, they are now only in ninth place in the Constructors’ Championship.

Nevertheless, they still believe they have a chance against the Britons, even though they would have to score more than twice as many points in the second half of the season as they currently have to catch Williams.

But Xevi Pujolar, Head of Trackside Engineering, is optimistic: “The points difference is not big, and we still have a lot of races to go. We can do it,” he says.

“Under normal conditions, we can’t do it all at once, but we still have several races, so it’s doable,” Pujolar continues. “We can score points a few times. I think it will be more difficult for Williams.”

In Formula 1, there are some jobs that go unseen in the background for many. This includes the “Trackside Fluid Engineer,” i.e., the engineer who is responsible for fluids at the track. Mercedes now offers an interesting insight into what he actually does in the garage.

Basically, he takes care of various fluids in the car and also has to analyze them. You can see how this works and what its purpose is here.

Three free weekends lie ahead for Formula 1. But what does that actually mean? How is work allowed to be done and to what extent is a rest period prescribed? All of this is laid down in the regulations – specifically in Articles 21.10, 21.11 and 21.12. There it is precisely stated what is allowed and what is not.

Simply put: All teams must have a complete shutdown of 14 consecutive days. When they take this, however, is up to the teams themselves.

This means: No wind tunnel, no CFD, no development, nothing. This also applies to engine manufacturers.

And the recovery is also necessary, after all, it then continues with three triple-headers in a row (!).

While many long for the summer break in Formula 1, Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff is personally not a fan of it. Although he thinks it’s good that you’re not allowed to work for two weeks, because otherwise employees would eventually burn out, it’s too long for him personally.

“Personally, I get bored after 48 hours, so I’ll find someone to call. And then I’ll terrorize them a bit on the phone,” he laughs. Niki Lauda used to do that to him.

“On the second day of vacation in Italy, he called me and said: ‘I’m here.’ To which I said: ‘Where are you?’ ‘I’m with the boat in front of your hotel. Are you coming down for breakfast at eight?’ Then I said: ‘You can kiss my ass. That you’re stalking me in Italy now and forcing me to get up and have an espresso with you, we’re not doing that.’ But he stayed there and waited for me.”

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