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Wolny chosen as inaugural winner of FAT Racing F4 Shootout

American Jackson Wolny has secured fully-funded season in British F4 this year with Xcel Motorsport after impressing in five-day shootout

Autosport

Rob Smedley explains the mindset that makes Max Verstappen the "ultimate competitor"

Rob Smedley has hailed Max Verstappen as “the ultimate competitor”, praising his relentless self-motivation and drive to keep pushing the gap to his rivals

Motorsport

Rob Smedley warns Ferrari pressure can "break" top engineers as Lewis Hamilton adapts

Rob Smedley says Ferrari’s unique culture and relentless pressure can overwhelm even top engineers and warns Lewis Hamilton isn’t immune as he adapts to life at Maranello

Motorsport

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Rob Smedley on Lewis Hamilton's race engineer swap and the habit that "pains" him

Rob Smedley says a key trait of a top race engineer is having immediate answers for the driver

Motorsport

Finalists chosen for inaugural FAT Racing shootout to secure F4 drive

Contest created by Rob Smedley to offer a funded season in British Formula 4 to a driver from a humble background

Autosport

Lewis Hamilton is a driver ‘reborn’ at Ferrari – so can he make history with an eighth title?

NEW F1 SEASON: Speaking to ex-Ferrari drivers and personnel ahead of Hamilton’s Scuderia debut in Australia this weekend, Kieran Jackson takes a deep dive into the biggest transfer in F1 history and asks: is an eighth title possible?

The Independent UK

The new karting league aiming to tackle F1's representation problem

Sobering. That’s the word I’d use to describe what it’s been like since I took the decision in 2019 to step away from working directly with Formula 1 teams and discover what it’s like in the outside world.

Autosport

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Miami GP radio controversies are latest in F1's complex history with team orders

Drivers like Lewis Hamilton and Carlos Sainz let their disdain for their respective teams show over team radio at the Miami Grand Prix, with the latter falling foul to a team orders mix-up that meant he lost out to his team-mate in the race.

Motorsport

Times F1 team-mates were not equal – car changes and team orders

Williams has made the decision to put Albon into Sargeant’s car for the remainder of the weekend after the British-Thai driver suffered a big crash at Turn 6 in Melbourne.

Autosport

Taking the lead - how Formula 1 is turning to AWS to help its next generation of fans get closer to the action

Formula 1 is in a golden era, but technology partners like AWS can help take it even further, Rob Smedley tells us.

TechRadar

Ex-F1 engineer Smedley launches new electric karting initiative

Global Karting League aims to cut the cost of aspiring racers’ karting careers by up to 96%, enabling a 1000-fold increase in participation.

Autosport

Full throttle: How AWS is helping craft a more exciting future for Formula 1

The future of Formula 1 is data-driven, and AWS is in the driving seat.

TechRadar

Formula 1 engineer backs Mercedes to reel in Red Bull and Ferrari this season

Mercedes have endured a torrid start to the 2022 F1 season, with Ferrari and Red Bull out in front as the early pace setters following races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia

Daily Mirror

Mercedes Will Reel in Rivals this Season, Says F1’s Smedley

Ferrari have cracked the code to set the pace in the new era of Formula One regulations but fans can expect the struggling Mercedes team to eventually find the right setup to compete this season, F1's Technical Consultant Rob Smedley told Reuters. Ferrari, who have not won a title in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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