Lewis Hamilton is aiming this season for a record eighth championship – but how has the Mercedes driver managed to stay at the head of the pack for so long? His former team mate Valtteri Bottas gave his thoughts on the matter before leaving the Silver Arrows. Bottas spent five years alongside Hamilton at Mercedes, […]
Charles Leclerc tests positive for coronavirus Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has tested positive for Covid-19. The 24-year-old, who finished seventh in the drivers’ championship this year, produced the positive test result on his return to Europe from the season’s final race in Abu Dhabi. Ferrari said he was “feeling fine and will […]
With images showing just how much construction work was still ongoing in the corniche area north of Jeddah, comments from the championship’s bosses were always explicit that the ‘track’ would be sorted on time. The inference from that was that a lot of the intended infrastructure around the circuit that is normal for F1 venues […]
Fernando Alonso has poured scorn on Lewis Hamilton’s recent resurgence by claiming his former teammate should be starting from the back of the grid. Hamilton’s world title hopes appeared to be fading ahead of the Brazil Grand Prix this month, when Mercedes opted to alter the internal combustion unit (ICU) on his car – representing […]
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has reportedly been asked about swapping Valtteri Bottas and George Russell for the final two races of the season. Lewis Hamilton is set to get a new team-mate in Russell for the 2022 campaign. Bottas has struggled to launch a serious title challenge in his five years with the Silver […]
By Anastasia Kharitonova The Middle East is gradually taking over F1. Many are already accustomed to the curious, but not always spectacular GPs in Bahrain and Abu Dhabi. Now it’s time to put new marks on the world map in the championship calendar. Last year it became known that Saudi Arabia will host the […]
