Valtteri Bottas beat Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton to pole position at the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix. The Finn pipped Hamilton by just 0.063 seconds on his final lap at Silverstone to take his first pole since the season opener in Austria last month. It could be an important moment for Bottas, who needs to try […]
Lewis Hamilton set the fastest ever lap around Silverstone to beat Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas to pole position at the British Grand Prix. Hamilton, faster on both runs in the final session, was 0.313 seconds clear of Bottas while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen pipped Charles Leclerc’s improved Ferrari to third. McLaren’s Lando Norris starred with […]
Formula 1 has added three more European races to the revised 2020 calendar, with returns to the Nurburgring and Imola, and a debut event at the Portimao circuit in Portugal – although there will be no Grands Prix in North or South America this season. The three new additions bring the tally of confirmed race […]
Valtteri Bottas survived reliability worries to win an incident-packed Austrian Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton took fourth after a penalty. Four months after the scheduled first race, called off because of the coronavirus crisis, Mercedes’ win was anything but the cruise that had been expected. Gearbox concerns slowed the cars and Hamilton was penalised five […]
Mercedes seemed unbeatable as the season re-started after a four-month delay as a result of the coronavirus. The cars, painted black this year to reflect Mercedes’ support for anti-racism, were half a second clear. The fastest Ferrari of Charles Leclerc was in seventh as the sheer scale of their lack of performance became clear. Team-mate […]
Ferrari became the second Formula 1 team to run its 2020 car since the COVID-19 crisis hit when Charles Leclerc drove the SF1000 on the streets of Maranello on Thursday. The cars have started to return to action this month for the first time since February’s final pre-season test in Barcelona, with Mercedes and Renault […]
