F1 Gossip: Red Bull reveals when it will introduce first 2022 upgrade

- Helmut Marko says Red Bull will introduce an upgrade for 𓂃the first r🌳ace in Bahrain ()
- Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has also served his punishment for his ‘rogue marshal’ comm🧔ent at the 2021 Qata🌺r Grand Prix. ()
- Horner ♉hopes race director Michael Masi will have better support around him to make decisꦉions after the controversial end to the 2021 season.
Horner told Sky Sports: "The new President [Mohammed Ben Sulayem]🥀 has put a key focus on this and I think there's a big drive to make sure that the Race Director has better support.
"The tools that we [the teams] have at our disposal are far in advance of that of Michael and his team,ꦉ so I think there's been a lo๊t of focus on that over the winter.
"I thꩵink you'll see that role better supported, which will hopefully enable decisions to be easier and swifter, but I think we also need to look at the regulations to simplify some of those as well."
- Williams driver Nicholas Latifi says the events of the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix are now behind🍸 him after he was the cause of the late, controversial Safe♌ty Car which swung the title in Max Verstappen’s favour.
. "It was a tricky few days with everything going on afterwards but I mean, it's part of the sport."It was kind of what I was expecting to happen as I mentioned in the post but I'm past it 🎐now and for sure, I guess once the season picks up and gives something more important for people to talk about and focus on [it will be forgotten].
"But it's long in the past for me now."
- Red Bull’s J🅺onathan Wheatley says Pierre Gasly is ready again to make the step up to the senior t🍌eam.
"We learned a huge amount of things from Alex; we learned how to help support a younger driver who's having a diff🥂icult time," Wheatley tol♓d podcaster .
"Same with Pierre before that. Look at the confidence Pierre has got again, now he's back in a slightly smaller team! I think, honestly, Pierre is ready to make the next stepไ up now."
- Daniel Ricciardo believes 2021 was the year he enjoyed the most ‘growth’ as an F1 d𝕴river after struggling w✅ith McLaren. ()
“I think already moving from Red Bul🐬l to Renault I went through some, call it personal growth. But I think this year, probably two factors made it the biggest year for that.
“One was the challenges I faced with the car, and trying to obviously gel withಌ that, and then I think the other one was obviously being away from home.”&⭕nbsp;
💦- Felipe Massa and Timo Glock are teaming up for the opening round of the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series.ꦜ
- Aston Martin has fired up its AMR22 ahead �♏�of the new season.
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