Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff was overall disappointed with his team’s qualifying performance at the French Grand Prix, but lauded a brilliant lap from Sir Lewis Hamilton to take fourth. Having come into the weekend with expectations on them to challenge Ferrari and Red Bull, the Silver Arrows have spent much of the weekend running
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Lando Norris was left “very surprised” after qualifying at the French Grand Prix, with the McLaren F1 Team’s new upgrades appearing to be working successfully at the Circuit Paul Ricard. Remarkably, Norris managed to not only claim a fifth-place start for Sunday’s race, but also managed to split the Mercedes F1 Team duo. Splitting the
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Coming into the French Grand Prix weekend, the smooth track surface and long straights of the Circuit Paul Ricard were expected to work in Mercedes’ favour as they hunt their first win of the season. However, by qualifying, they had been trying all sorts of different set-ups to figure out how to maximise performance, without
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Max Verstappen claimed his eighth front-row start of the season on Saturday at the French Grand Prix; however, he was once again beaten to pole-position by rival Charles Leclerc. Heading into qualifying, Verstappen looked strong at the Circuit Paul Ricard. The reigning World Champion topped FP3, and was within the top three in both FP1
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen hopes that nobody will have to miss races in Formula 1 amid rises in COVID-19 cases recently. New variants of the virus have started to spread of late, and Sir Lewis Hamilton recently explained that this is why he has started wearing a face covering again while in the paddock. In
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Ferrari performed a strategic masterclass on Saturday at the French Grand Prix, to secure yet another pole position for Charles Leclerc. With the Scuderia already being aware that Carlos Sainz would start from the back of the grid due to an engine penalty, the Italian team used the Spaniard’s appearance in Q3 to their advantage.
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has revealed that there is only one team on the grid that is not on board with his diversity and inclusion agreement. Hamilton set up the Hamilton commission in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd in America, and this was followed by the creation of his Mission 44 charity together with
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner is unhappy at Mercedes as he feels they are trying to change the rules to suit them. Safety has become a concern for some of the drivers amid the “porpoising” and bouncing caused by the new technical regulations which saw the return of ground effect aerodynamics. The FIA stepped
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Max Verstappen is aiming to make it back-to-back victories at the French Grand Prix, after the Dutchman famously overtook both Mercedes F1 Team drivers in the closing stages of last year’s race. The reigning World Champion goes into this weekend’s race at the Circuit Paul Ricard with a 38-point advantage over Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, and
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Ferrari sporting director Laurent Mekies has conceded that the team are worried about the possibility of further reliability issues after Carlos Sainz’s retirement in Austria. The Scuderia suffered their fourth failure of the season when the Spaniard exited the race in fiery fashion, denying the team their second one-two of the year as Charles Leclerc
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