Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas feels happier at Alfa Romeo now than he did when he drove for Mercedes after stepping out of Sir Lewis Hamilton’s shadow. Bottas joined Mercedes from Williams in 2017 after the shock retirement of 2016 champion Nico Rosberg, and the Finn won three races in his first season with the Silver
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George Russell recovered incredibly well at the Austrian Grand Prix, after an early 5-second time penalty saw his hopes of a top five finish appear to vanish. Russell, who started 4th, made a great start to the race and battled with Carlos Sainz and Sergio Pérez. However, drama struck at the famous Turn 4, as
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Ferrari have arrested their woeful lack of form in the last two rounds in Silverstone and Austria – at least partially. Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc have, between them, claimed each of the last two races for the Scuderia, but they have – as is typical – done things the hard way. An almost inexplicable
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Dr Helmut Marko is known for his no holds barred opinions of his drivers, past and present, and he gave a very frank overview of some of the drivers he has worked with over the years. In the Red Bulletin before the Austrian Grand Prix, he spoke about Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, who started in Formula
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Reports have emerged of yet more racist abuse being thrown at Sir Lewis Hamilton by Max Verstappen fans at last weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix. What started as an entertaining, if a little controversial, rivalry between Hamilton and Verstappen last year has descended into personal, abusive and abhorrent behaviour from some of their almost cultist supporters,
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Carlos Sainz was looking set to claim P2 at the Austrian Grand Prix, after closing Max Verstappen down in rapid fashion. The Red Bull Racing driver struggled with tyre wear and traction throughout the race, which saw Charles Leclerc pass the Dutchman with ease three times on his way to victory. It appeared a Ferrari 1-2 was
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George Russell recovered from a first-lap collision with Sergio Pérez to finish in 4th place at the Austrian Grand Prix, after initially losing a “second a lap” due to the incident. Russell made an excellent start to the race, and was involved in an opening lap battle with Pérez and Carlos Sainz. However, it all
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo has asked fans to consider drivers’ wellbeing before booing them or cheering their crashes after Sir Lewis Hamilton’s accident in Austria was met with celebrations. Hamilton lost the rear of his Mercedes during Friday’s qualifying session in Spielberg, going off at Turn Seven and heading straight into the barrier. Rapturous applause and
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New information has surfaced as to the skids on the floors of some of the cars amid the “porpoising” and bouncing technical directive debate. Mercedes’ drivers, Sir Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, have been struggling both physically and in terms of performance due to the aerodynamic phenomenon that comes with the new ground effect aerodynamics,
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Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has confirmed that Ferrari do not have a definitive say in Mick Schumacher’s future amid the German’s improved form of late. Schumacher finally scored his first points in Formula 1 at the British Grand Prix when he finished eighth, before getting his elbows out in the Austrian Grand Prix sprint
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