F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your questions, including whether grid penalties could affect the championship battle.
It's just under two weeks before the United States Grand Prix from 18-20 October - the first of six races to decide the destiny of the drivers' and constructors' championships.We saw Max Verstappen take a grid penalty in Spa for changing his engine. Will Lando Norris have to do the same in the remaining races? - William
RB helped Red Bull in Singapore. Could the other Mercedes-powered teams do the same for Lando Norris? Do Mercedes even care if a customer team wins? – John The central point here is that the relationship between Red Bull and RB is very different from that between Mercedes and McLaren. Isn't the idea of a Renault Mercedes an absolute farce and indicative of a complete and embarrassing failure at Renault HQ? – JonathanOn the face of it, the move does seem to defy accepted F1 logic and reasoning.
The next best accepted situation is for a team to have a factory engine deal, where the team and manufacturer work in harmony in the same way but are separate entities - such as Red Bull with Renault from 2010-13 and with Honda since 2019. And look at what’s happening this year - McLaren, a customer of Mercedes, are leading the constructors’ championship with six races to go and favourite to win it against Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes, who all fit one of the above models.
Following the swearing debate, do teams have to speak English on the radio? Wouldn’t it make more sense for the Alpine guys to speak French? – Willof F1. Everyone uses it as the default, even teams from countries where the native language is different and in which the two drivers speak that language.
So, at Ferrari, for example, all engineering meetings are conducted in English, even though the team is Italian and both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz speak Italian. Team principal Frederic Vasseur does not, incidentally. What’s the likelihood of Lewis Hamilton being able to do post-season testing for Ferrari in Abu Dhabi? - Laura
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