New Alfa Romeo signing Valtteri Bottas has revealed that a return to Williams was an option for 2022, but he decided against joining the Mercedes-powered team. Bottas began his Formula 1 career at Williams in 2013, and scored his only points that year at the US Grand Prix in what was a dreadfully underperforming car.
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto would like to maintain a positive relationship with Philip Morris after the team dropped their Mission Winnow branding ahead of the 2022 season. The Scuderia came under scrutiny in 2018 when they announced the arrival of the PMI initiative, with many quick to point out that it was a clever
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has praised Sir Lewis Hamilton for overcoming several hardships in his life on his way to Formula 1, and believes that they have shaped the racer he is today. Hamilton has previously detailed the racist abuse he and his father Antony received at go-kart tracks when the Briton was young,
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo has revealed that he does not care much for the technical side of Formula 1, and he instead prefers to solely focus on driving the car. Ricciardo finished eighth in the championship last season in his first year with McLaren, taking his first win in papaya at the Italian Grand Prix. Buy
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A petition to make Sir Lewis Hamilton the 2021 Formula 1 world champion has now reached over 65,000 signatures, as fans continue to protest the result of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Hamilton was leading title rival Max Verstappen by over 14 seconds in the dying laps of the season finale, but a late crash
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Former Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has rubbished claims that the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was “manipulated”, insisting that Max Verstappen beat Sir Lewis Hamilton “fair and square.” Hamilton’s Mercedes team were enraged when race director Michael Masi appeared to contradict Safety Car protocol, facilitating a Verstappen victory. Buy an F1 TV Pro subscription
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Kimi Raikkonen has revealed that he has always had bigger things to focus on in life besides Formula 1, and stressed that he decided to retire at the end of 2021 because he had grown tired of certain aspects of the sport. The Finn revealed in F1’s season predictions YouTube video that his decision to
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As has now become tradition, the turn of the new year means that we are but a couple of months away from the premiere of the new season of Netflix’s Drive to Survive docuseries. Season 4 is set to be the juiciest one yet, with controversy running riot in the championship battle between Sir Lewis
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Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko believes that 22-year-old Lando Norris is closest to the level on which Sir Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen perform, as he gives his predictions for 2022. The Briton ended the 2021 season sixth in the Drivers’ Championship, impressively out-scoring more experienced team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in the Australian’s first year
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Activists from PETA have called on Sir Lewis Hamilton to back their campaign against the Iditarod – a notorious dog-sled race which takes place in Alaska. PETA campaigners sent Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali a dead dog prop and a letter last week, urging him to end Liberty Media’s backing of the event. Buy an
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