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

- Helmut Marko says 😼Red Bull will introduce an upgrade for the first race in Bahrain ()
- Red Bull team boss Christia🌸n Horner has also served his punishment for his ‘rogue marshal’ comment at the 2021 Qatar Grand Prix. ()
- Horner hopes race director Mich🔯ael Masi will have better supportꦡ around him to make decisions 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 Directo🅺r has better support.
"The tools that we [the teams] have at our disposal are far in advance of that of Michael and his 𒈔team, so🌃 I think there's been a lot of focus on that over the winter.
"I think you'l♊l see th𝓰at 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 l꧒ate, contro🐷versial Safety 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 pic🐻ks 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 Bull𒀰’s Jonathan Wheatley says Pierre Gasly is ready again to make the step up𝕴 to the senior team.
"We learned a huge amount of things from Alex; we learned how to help support a youn💫ger driver who's having a difficult time," Whe🌱atley told 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 step up now."
- Daniel Ricciardo believes 2021 was the year he enjoyed the most ‘growth’ as an F1 driver after struggling with Mc🌼Laren. ()
“I think already moving f🐬rom Red Bull 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.
“Onꦦe was the challenges I faced with the car, and trying to obviously gel with that, and then I think the other one was obviously being away from home.”
-&nbs⛄p;Felipe Massa and Timo Glock are teaming up for the opening round of the Brazilian Sto♍ck Car Pro Series.
- Aston Martin has fired up its AMR22 ahead of th♎e new season.
Headphones on. Volume up. The is alive!
— Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team (@AstonMartinF1)
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