F1: French GP, live | FP1 and FP2 at Circuit Paul Ricard

F1 French GP 2022 | Norris complains about the accelerator pedalLando Norris said he felt bad on the accelerator pedal. He radios his engineer in case something happens to his car.

F1 French GP 2022 | attention to mercedesOn this track, with the asphalt ready and with less rebound problems, after the improvements brought to the track in the recent Mercedes races and after finally starting to understand what your car needs… here at Paul Ricard Brackley’s cars could be there, or at least closer to the best. Pay attention to them.

F1 French GP 2022 | De Vries, instead of HamiltonNyck De Vries will replace Lewis Hamilton in this Free 1. The Formula E champion will take his place in these first practices. Robert Kubica will also ride in Valtteri Bottas’ car.

F1 French GP 2022 | Free Practice 1 is about to beginFormula 1 French GP free practice 1 begins. From now on, tests will begin to find the best balance of each car. There is a lot of interest to see how the improvements presented by McLaren, Alpine, Mercedes or Ferrari start to work. In these Free Skills 1, for these groups, it will be key for everyone to start studying these improvements and see how they work, collect data to study them in the factory and start looking for the key in the car set-up.

F1 French GP 2022 | Verstappen’s wordsVerstappen, positive after the degradation problems he had in Auatria. He hopes that this weekend he can get the better potential from the car: “I don’t think we got the full potential of the car. So we learned from it and I hope we can make a better work here. We have a very competitive car and If we can get the best out of the car, I’m sure we can fight to win again.”

F1 French GP 2022 | Sainz’s remarks on DAZN F1“It’s a pretty complicated situation that has to be managed. But having a fast car like this year also allows you to have good races and keep scoring points in the championship, which is the important thing. And if there are so many things. it happened in the first half of this season means it can happen in the second too. There are quite fast corners, a very black asphalt that will increase the temperature of the tire and the car in general. It is definitely it’s a weekend when things happen and you have to be there to take advantage of them.”

F1 French GP 2022 | Vettel wants to stay at Aston MartinVettel spoke about his future at the French GP, making his intentions clear: ”
I think there is a clear intention to follow through
And soon we will see the position we will enter. What is certain is my race this week in France and also next. Then, as I said at the time,
We will start talking to the team about next year.”

F1 French GP 2022 | Alonso’s StatementsAlonso spoke yesterday about Alpine’s goal, fourth place in the Constructors:

“We took another step forward in Austria,
We are very competitive there again. We stayed behind the top teams and above the whole midfield, which was probably the goal we had at the start of the year.”

“I think we are fast and we need to score points in the second half of the season.
We have to try to finish the fourth year in the Constructors’ Championship, I think it’s a good goal for us.”

Alonso’s expectations of Paul Ricard: “I see no reason not to do well here, we have been competitive in the last races and the car is fast. This is our home race, we will have the support of the French and we want to give them something special.”

This weekend’s track limits…: “We’ll see what happens at the limits of the track, it’s not easy to go to the curbs, you can damage the car a lot.
I don’t think it’s as bad as you think.”

F1 French GP 2022 | New to Red BullRed Bull news for this French F1 GP 2022:

F1 French GP 2022 | Novelty at FerrariFERRARI TESTS NEW FLOOR ON LECLERC’S CAR: Ferrari has unveiled an update to the front and center floor and diffuser as part of the development cycle of its aerodynamic package to “improve overall aerodynamic performance”. Ferrari could win a major tenth in its battle with Red Bull. It is a pure evolution, not specific to this track, because the team itself is in dispute with the FIA. We will see if this is an improvement for Ferrari.

F1 French GP 2022 | Many evolutions for McLarenMcLaren This is the team that shows the most novelties in its car. They saw how they went from fighting to lead the middle zone at the start, to seeing how Mercedes had clearly overtaken them throughout the year and how
Alpine take a step forward allowing him to reach
Paul Ricard tied in points with
McLaren. those of
waking up they respond to the many improvements we’ve listed below. In Free Skills they have to try to understand these evolutions, study their operation and probably won’t find how to squeeze it completely until one of the next appointments.

These are the McLaren improvements:

F1 French GP 2022 | Improvements for AlpineAfter the package of improvements presented by Alpine at Silverstone and which was a great step forward, the French team continues to develop their car by presenting at the 2022 F1 French GP, at its home, more evolutions which ensures that the vehicle continues to progress on the trail. Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso were optimistic yesterday about these new pieces. Alpine brings in this case small changes to the sides of the floor of the car and some other variations related to the floor, the main downforce generator of these new F1 cars:

F1 French GP 2022 | Alonso, to the new generation of fans

Alonso: “The new generation of fans didn’t see me fight for the podiums.” Pay attention to his words: Fernando said “I don’t want to disrespect them, but they don’t know about Formula 1. They are like a football fan, they only follow the results, they believe that whoever wins is more great. and whoever is the last one is not at the level for F-1. There is no right culture”.

F1 French GP 2022 | What will happen to Alonso? The continuation or not of the Asturian in Alpine, star of the ‘Silly Season’ of the ‘Great Circus’: The Spaniard wants to renew for two years and will negotiate the summer break. What will be the future of Alonso?

F1 French GP 2022 | training This is the F1 World Cup 2022 classification before the Formula 1 French GP 2022.

F1 French GP 2022 | training However, Carlos Sainz did not throw in the towel. He emphatically stated this in recent statements:
Sainz continues to believe: “Soon”

F1 French GP 2022 | trainingWe arrive in France two weeks after the dramatic blow that took place at the last Austrian GP, ​​​​​​where Ferrari has everything to do the double against Red Bull at home. Leclerc took the win but Sainz saw his engine burn out and his chances of fighting for the title as well. He left Austria 75 points behind leader Verstappen.

F1 French GP 2022 | trainingWelcome to the 2022 French F1 GP. It’s all set at Paul Ricard for the first free practice sessions to kick off this French Formula 1 event, with plenty at stake on all sides of the grid.