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Lewis Hamilton stormed to his fourth win in five races in Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix ahead of Max Verstappen, while championship rival Sebastian Vettel retired with a mechanical problem. Hamilton led from pole, while Vettel was a sitting duck on the straights in the opening laps. Falling from second to outside the top 10 with […]
Charles Leclerc dominated the Formula 2 feature race at Jerez to wrap up the drivers’ championship with three races to spare. Leclerc built up a commanding lead in the opening stages and survived a late safety car to win his sixth race of the year. The safety car was deployed when Nobuharu Matsushita and Santino […]
Jolyon Palmer has announced his premature Formula 1 exit via his Instagram. Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix will mark his final race with Renault. The French manufacturer signed Carlos Sainz Jr to replace Palmer for 2018 following the Italian Grand Prix and it tried to get the Spaniard in for the remaining 2017 rounds. Palmer seemingly […]
Championship leader Lewis Hamilton beat his Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Valtteri Bottas in qualifying for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix; marking Hamilton’s first pole at Suzuka. Hamilton topped all three qualifying sessions, setting a 1m27.319s to take pole in Q3. Bottas was just over three tenths adrift of the Brit. The Finn will take a five-place […]
Championship leader Charles Leclerc stormed to his eighth pole position of the season at Jerez for the penultimate round of the 2017 Formula 2 season. Leclerc bettered his practice pacesetter by six tenths, to beat Luca Ghiotto to the fastest time of the 30-minute qualifying session. The Monegasque driver took pole with a 1m24.682s, which […]
GP3 race winner Alex Palou will make his Formula 2 debut at this weekend’s standalone Jerez round, replacing Robert Visoiu at Campos Racing. Palou, who has won races in both Japanese F3 and Formula V8 3.5 in 2017, will race with the team that he spent his two seasons in GP3 with. The 20-year-old had […]
Sebastian Buemi was quickest on the second day of testing in Valencia ahead of the 2017/18 Formula E season. The season two champion set a 1m21.890s in the morning which would help him stay at the top of the timesheets till the chequered flag. Buemi’s pacesetting lap was over three seconds slower than Oliver Turvey’s […]
Three-time Le Mans winner and current World Endurance Championship LMP1 driver Andre Lotterer will join Jean-Eric Vergne at Techeetah for the 2017/18 Formula E season. Lotterer, who was originally a sceptic of the series, will replace Stephane Sarrazin at the Chinese outfit. Techeetah won the final race of its maiden season cementing fifth place in […]
Callum Ilott led every lap of the opening European Formula 3 race at the Red Bull Ring, beating Joel Eriksson by one second. Eriksson went around the outside of Maximilian Gunther at Turn 1 on the opening lap and almost passed poleman Ilott later in the lap. The Swede pressured Ilott all race long but […]
28 points with six races to go. Sebastian Vettel may have overcome worse odds before, but the battle to overhaul Lewis Hamilton for the 2017 crown presents a challenge even the four-time champion can’t overcome without major help from Lady Luck. In 2010, Vettel was 31 points behind leader Hamilton in the drivers’ championship but […]
An explosive Singapore Grand Prix, which may well decide the destiny of both championships, marked the 14th round of the 2017 Formula 1 season. Sebastian Vettel’s dramatic exit on the opening lap along with Max Verstappen and Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen puts him 28 points adrift of Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ championship. Hamilton notched […]
Sebastian Vettel beat the Red Bull duo to claim his 49th career pole position and his fourth under the lights in Singapore. Vettel, who lost the championship lead at the previous round at Monza to Lewis Hamilton, set a 1m39.491s, beating Max Verstappen by over three tenths. Verstappen shaded Red Bull team-mate by just under […]