Sir Lewis Hamilton has been surpassed by American football player Tom Brady and NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo in the Forbes list of highest paid athletes for 2022. Having topped the list last year, mixed martial artist and whiskey entrepreneur Conor McGregor has fallen out of the top 10 entirely, while Hamilton’s estimated $82 million a
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A trashed hotel room or an ejection from a swimming pool is usually the sign of a pretty successful night out, so Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris can certainly tick that one off the list. Ahead of the Miami Grand Prix last weekend, the McLaren pair were discussing some of their craziest moments while on
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Former Formula 1 driver Mika Hakkinen says Mercedes had a “strange weekend” in Miami, but it turned into a respectable points haul for the Silver Arrows. Mercedes turned up in Miami with upgrades to the car that were aimed at limiting their “porpoising” struggles and capitalising on the long straights and slow corners at the
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has not had the easiest start to the 2022 season, but is there really such a massive cause for concern? Hamilton was out-raced for the fourth successive time by George Russell in Miami having also been out-performed all weekend in Imola, at the end of which the 24-year-old picked up a fourth-placed
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Canadian journalist Norris McDonald was forced to apologise after he made a mistake surrounding Nicholas Latifi’s future at Williams. After a tough start to the 2022 season, Latifi sits 21st in the Drivers’ Championship having failed to pick up any points and been comprehensively out-performed by Alex Albon, while three major crashes – two of them
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There is little doubt that Valtteri Bottas will be taking a little bit of satisfaction each time he out-performs a Mercedes in his Alfa Romeo this year, but he affirmed in Miami that there are no hard feelings between him and his successor George Russell. In five seasons at Mercedes, Bottas won 10 races and
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Sir Lewis Hamilton went into detail during the Miami Grand Prix weekend around the issues with trying to get Americans more invested in Formula 1. There have been 57 American drivers on the grid throughout F1’s 72-year history, and two of them – Mario Andretti and Phil Hill – have won the championship. Hill’s 1961
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Sir Lewis Hamilton says that everyone at Mercedes has been pulling together as they negotiate a tough start to the 2022 season. The re-introduction of ground effect aerodynamics through the new technical regulations has not exactly been kind to the Silver Arrows, and their plenitude of struggles has been epitomised by just two podium finishes,
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Sebastian Vettel agrees with the fact that racing in Formula 1 and raising awareness for environmental campaigns makes him a “hypocrite,” but affirms he does everything in his power to limit his carbon footprint. Vettel has long been a figurehead in F1 in his push for social justice, equality and ecological awareness, and he arrived
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has highlighted the importance of prominent figures in sport speaking up on world affairs, and wants to push for more diversity in Formula 1. Sir Lewis Hamilton condemned the possible reversal of the landmark Roe vs Wade case in 1973, which gave women the right to get an abortion without
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