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Lewis Hamilton thought that his Mercedes power unit was “going to fail” en route to a fifth-place finish at the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix. Mercedes was already on the back foot heading into the weekend, delaying an engine upgrade after the team found that there could be reliability issues related to the performance enhancements. […]
Charles Leclerc’s debut at his home race in Monaco ended early with brake failure, crashing into Brendon Hartley’s Toro Rosso at the Nouvelles Chicane on lap 70. With only eight laps of the race remaining, Hartley and Leclerc were battling for 11th when the Sauber driver hit the back of the Toro Rosso under braking […]
Formula E’s fifth season will start in Saudi Arabia this December after a 10-year agreement was finalised for the event. It will be the first time FE has raced in the Middle East with the event set to be hosted in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. Despite confirming that the ePrix, which will be the […]
Romain Grosjean will serve a three-place grid penalty in Monaco for causing the first lap accident at the Spanish Grand Prix. The Haas driver spun on the outside of Turn 3 while running behind team-mate Kevin Magnussen. Instead of spinning off the track towards the gravel trap, Grosjean accelerated and remained in the middle of […]
Lewis Hamilton took a dominant win at the Spanish Grand Prix from Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in third. Hamilton led from pole position. Bottas, who started alongside his team-mate in an all Mercedes front row, lost out to Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel at the start. The race leader had to navigate […]
Valtteri Bottas had “no idea” that he had hit the carbon fibre debris which punctured his tyre while leading the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and ultimately led to retirement. Mercedes had engineered Bottas into a race winning position, leaving him out longer than his rivals on the supersoft tyres. As the Red Bull duo of Max Verstappen […]
Max Verstappen has accepted responsibility for his collision with Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari in the Chinese Grand Prix. On softer and fresher tyres after Red Bull made a strategic call to pit both its cars during the safety car period, Verstappen was closing in on Vettel for the final podium place. On lap 43 he saw […]
Max Verstappen believes the decision from the Formula 1 stewards to take ‘no further action’ following his and Lewis Hamilton’s collision at the Bahrain Grand Prix was “a bit harsh.” Red Bull’s night ended after just a couple of laps, with both Daniel Ricciardo and Verstappen pulling off the circuit. Out of position due to […]
Sebastian Vettel made an unconventional one-stop strategy work to claim victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix, surviving a late challenge from Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas. Vettel led from Bottas and team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in the early stages. Making swift progress through the field early on, Lewis Hamilton soon climbed to fourth to become a factor in […]
Honda unreliability struck Toro Rosso in the Formula 1 season-opener, with the team confirming that an MGU-H failure caused Pierre Gasly to retire from the Australian Grand Prix. It was a relatively trouble-free winter test in Barcelona, with the new Toro Rosso-Honda partnership clocking the highest mileage of any team, albeit using three power units across […]
Renault is now in the third year of its renewed commitment to F1, with only minor successes to its credit since will 2018 be its year? Rebuilding over the last couple of seasons, Renault lost its way in the new era of hybrid power units after an extremely successful four championship winning streak with Red […]
Formula E is to have a reduced number of races in season four following the cancellation of the Montreal rounds. The Norisring in Nuremberg, emerged as the favourite to replace the Montreal double-header. However, despite some enthusiasm for the idea which would fall a week after the hugely popular DTM race, series boss Alejandro Agag […]