Logan Sargeant thoroughly enjoyed his first outing in a Formula 1 car after finishing 15th in the post-season test at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. Sargeant, who finished seventh in Formula 3 and made his Formula 2 debut in 2021, was pleased with the efforts of the Williams F1 Team. “[It was] everything
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Valtteri Bottas took Sir Lewis Hamilton’s championship defeat to Max Verstappen as a personal loss for himself, with the Finn “gutted” that Mercedes were unable to seal both titles in Abu Dhabi. Bottas contested his final race as a Mercedes driver on Sunday, but was unable to involve himself in the leading pack, to the
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As soon as the cars crossed the finish line in Abu Dhabi and Max Verstappen was declared the 2021 F1 Driver’s Champion, a petition was launched to hand Sir Lewis Hamilton the title. The petition, at the time of writing, has amassed over 14,000 signatures, showing fans’ dismay over the stewards’ decisions in the final
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A radio message has surfaced from McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo after a highly contentious finish to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and the 2021 season. Sir Lewis Hamilton was leading title rival Max Verstappen by over 14 seconds heading into the latter stages of the race, before a crash for Williams’ Nicholas Latifi brought out the
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McLaren driver Lando Norris was having an excellent race weekend in Abu Dhabi before suffering a slow puncture with just 10 laps of the grand prix to go. The young British driver started the race in P3, just behind the two championship protagonists, but found himself losing a bunch of places after the team detected
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Sir Lewis Hamilton got on the radio during the final lap of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to tell his race engineer he thought the race “has been manipulated.” With just a few laps to go in the final race of the season, Hamilton saw himself in a comfortable position to win the grand
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Sebastian Vettel feels that his overtakes award success in 2021 is a sign that his Aston Martin team lack pace and find themselves recovering through the field “too often”. Although Vettel thoroughly enjoyed the side-by-side battling, he is disappointed he found himself in that position as often as he did. “We backfired too often. We
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Sergio Perez has said he is “happy” to have helped Max Verstappen defeat Sir Lewis Hamilton in the 2021 F1 World Championship by holding the Brit up in Sunday’s season finale. Hamilton cleared Verstappen at the start of the race on medium tyres, running away from the Dutchman in the opening stages. The Red Bull
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F1 commentator Martin Brundle has slammed the “totally unacceptable” lobbying of race director Michael Masi by team principals following the controversy-packed 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Masi just wrapped up his third season as Formula 1’s race director and safety delegate under much scrutiny after the controversial end to the season finale, which saw Max
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Max Verstappen has revealed that Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff sent him a congratulatory text message following the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, after the Dutchman became F1 World Champion. Wolff was positively seething after race director Michael Masi allowed only the five cars between Sir Lewis Hamilton and Verstappen to un-lap themselves, refusing to speak
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