Anna Duxbury

Anna Duxbury

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Stroll hit with penalty for ignoring blue flags
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Stroll hit with penalty for ignoring blue flags

Lance Stroll has received a 10 second time penalty for failing to obey blue flags at the 2018 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix as well having three penalty points put on his licence. The penalty came about after Stroll was told by Williams to try and stay unlapped by Sergio Perez and in the Canadian’s […]

Wolff defends Vowles after strategy error
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Wolff defends Vowles after strategy error

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has defended team strategist James Vowles after the decision was made not to pit Lewis Hamilton under the virtual safety car in the 2018 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix. Hamilton was the only one of the front-running drivers not to pit under the VSC caused by team-mate Valtteri Bottas’ retirement […]

Hamilton heads Mercedes one-two in FP2
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Hamilton heads Mercedes one-two in FP2

Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time in second practice for the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix with Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas 0.1 seconds behind. Hamilton set a time of 1.04.579 on the soft tyres early on in the session and was unable to go faster on the ultrasofts, which appeared to the trend across the field. […]

Vettel: Not much I could have done differently in Bottas collision
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Vettel: Not much I could have done differently in Bottas collision

Sebastian Vettel has said that there is not a lot he could have done differently in first lap collision with Valtteri Bottas as the 2018 Formula 1 French Grand Prix. Vettel and Bottas touched after third-placed Vettel made a good start off the grid and was unable to slow his Ferrari enough to avoid the […]

Magnussen: ‘We got everything right’
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Magnussen: ‘We got everything right’

Kevin Magnussen feels that he and the Haas team ‘got everything right’ at the 2018 Formula 1 French Grand Prix. The Dane finished best of the rest in sixth despite having Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas trying to hunt him down in the concluding stages of the race. Magnussen made up for what he felt was a […]

Neuville wins Rally Italy after nail-biting final stage
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Neuville wins Rally Italy after nail-biting final stage

Thierry Neuville has snatched Rally Italy victory by just 0.7 seconds, taking it down to the wire and overhauling World Rally Championship rival Sebastien Ogier for the win on the final stage of the event. It is the third closest finish in the history of the WRC with both drivers throwing caution to the wind […]

Ahmed cruises to second victory of the day
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Ahmed cruises to second victory of the day

Enaam Ahmed has taken victory from pole in the third Formula 3 European Championship race of the weekend at the Hungaroring. Hitech-run Ahmed survived a first-corner battle with rivals Dan Ticktum and Marcus Armstrong to finish the race over seven seconds in front. This makes Ahmed the first driver to take two victories in 2018 […]

Verstappen satisfied with ‘maximised’ race result
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Verstappen satisfied with ‘maximised’ race result

Max Verstappen has said that he is happy with his ninth-place finish in the 2018 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, after he avoided risk to enact a recovery drive from the back of the grid. A heavy crash in third practice meant that the Red Bull team were unable to fix the car in time […]

Vettel: I was never really there in battle for race lead
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Vettel: I was never really there in battle for race lead

Sebastian Vettel has said that race-winner Daniel Ricciardo was always controlling the pace in the Formula 1 2018 Monaco Grand Prix, despite nursing his ailing Red Bull. Vettel started and finished in second position and was never able to take the fight to pole-sitter Ricciardo around the tight roads of Monte-Carlo, which are notorious for making […]

Meeke dropped from Citroen squad on safety grounds
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Meeke dropped from Citroen squad on safety grounds

Kris Meeke has been dropped by Citroen for the rest of the 2018 World Rally Championship after he has been involved in ‘an excessively high number of crashes’. Meeke has had an accident-prone season so far, culminating in a massive impact with a tree during Rally Portugal that was severe enough to warrant a trip […]

Red Bull domination continues in FP2
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Red Bull domination continues in FP2

Daniel Ricciardo has gone fastest in second practice for the Formula 1 2018 Monaco Grand Prix, with Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen +0.194 seconds behind. Verstappen was the early pacesetter and was first to break the unofficial track record with a laptime of 1m 12.0s and the Dutchman seemed to set to improve again when […]

Ricciardo tops timesheet in Red Bull FP1 one-two
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Ricciardo tops timesheet in Red Bull FP1 one-two

Daniel Ricciardo has gone fastest in first practice of the 2018 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, heading up a Red Bull one-two. Ricciardo and team-mate Max Verstappen traded fastest lap times for much of their early run on the supersoft tyres. Verstappen was looking to be the one to beat as the first man to […]