Within the round-up: Romain Grosjean’s deliberate Mercedes Formulation 1 check has not been deserted, over two years after it was postponed.
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Grosjean’s Mercedes F1 check hopes not over
Mercedes introduced in Might 2021 that Grosjean would conduct a Formulation 1 check with them at Paul Ricard the next month. Grosjean’s F1 profession had come to an early finish the yr earlier than following a surprising fireball crash within the Bahrain Grand Prix which break up his automobile in two and left him nursing burns to his fingers.
Nonetheless the deliberate check needed to be placed on maintain after F1 made modifications to the 2021 calendar. With Grosjean racing full-time in IndyCar from the next yr, and F1’s guidelines making alternatives to check restricted, the date has not been rescheduled.
Grosjean has since misplaced his Andretti Autosport seat and his plans for subsequent yr stay unconfirmed. RaceFans understands Mercedes, having carried out a seat slot in overalls with Grosjean again in 2021 forward of his deliberate run of their title-winning 2019 automobile, are nonetheless trying to make the long-awaited check occur.
Mercedes F1 workforce’s 2022 income revealed in accounts
The annual report and monetary statements from 2022 for the Mercedes F1 workforce have been launched by Corporations Home, and reveal the workforce made a revenue of their first title-free yr since 2013.
In complete Mercedes’ turnover of £474.6 million was a rise of £91.3 million over 2021’s numbers, and that equated to a giant year-on-year bounce in income too with a climb from £68.8 million to £89.7 million. Due to this fact following 2022 the workforce needed to pay out £75 million (up from £55.2 million the earlier yr) in dividends to shareholders because of their giant income.
Mercedes spent £35,097,000 on race automobile improvement throughout their title-winning 2021 season, which elevated to £41,016,000 final yr as they sought to make up floor on the dominant Pink Bull.
IndyCar engaged on lighter aeroscreen
IndyCar president Jay Frye has offered an replace on the work to lighten the collection’ aeroscreen, a security system surrounding the cockpit of the Dallara DW12 that was launched to the automobile in 2020.
“It’s principally a model two of it [in development for 2024]. It’ll do the identical factor from a security perspective, which I feel we’ve seen quite a few instances it’s come into play in a giant manner. So we’re very grateful for that,” Frye defined.
“Pankl PPG have carried out a very good job of lightening up the present model, so it’s going to be a lighter mannequin. Which we’re making an attempt to loosen up the general automobile. There’s going to be some, one of many issues with it, the unique piece, was driver cooling. So we’re constructing some driver cooling parts to the brand new display screen, so yeah it’s going to be good.”
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