Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has said the team knows there’s still everything to play for in this year’s Championship battle despite Max Verstappen losing the lead in the standings in Hungary. The Dutch ace’s Championship rival, Sir Lewis Hamilton, benefitted from Verstappen suffering a DNF in the British GP after colliding with the
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Fernando Alonso holds a grudge against his former McLaren team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton, according to Dutch F1 journalist Jack Plooji. The two-time World Champion prevented Hamilton from winning the Hungarian GP earlier this month, with him holding up the Mercedes driver for some 10 laps and ultimately proving pivotal to ensuring his Alpine team-mate, Esteban
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff blaming Max Verstappen fans for booing Sir Lewis Hamilton “makes no sense at all”, Dutch F1 journalist Jack Plooji has said. Hamilton was the subject of booing on several occasions in Budapest, as the race took place hot on the heels of his crash with Verstappen on the opening lap
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The Aston Martin F1 Team will stop developing its 2021 car and shift focus to their 2022 challenger, the team’s performance director, Tom McCullough, has revealed. The newly rebranded team had a difficult pre-season test and struggled in the opening few races of 2021, but they have steadily made their way up the order and
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Haas F1 driver Nikita Mazepin has said that he is confident the American racing outfit will be fighting for points at “some point” next year. The team currently have the least competitive car on the grid after they decided not to develop their 2020 package and instead focused their resources on 2022, when sweeping regulation
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Double World Champion Fernando Alonso has said that he is “privileged” to have shared a race track with Sebastian Vettel, and he has no doubt that the German’s name will be remembered alongside his in the history books. The pair took the Championship battle right down to the wire in 2012, with Vettel ultimately triumphing
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Red Bull driver Max Verstappen has said that he believes he is good at staying out of trouble, and insisted that he doesn’t race other drivers in an overly aggressive manner. The Dutch ace saw his 33-point lead in the Championship take a major blow after he suffered a DNF in the British GP due
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Daniel Ricciardo has revealed that Red Bull’s culture was partly responsible for his decision to leave the Milton Keynes-based team at the end of 2018. The Aussie joined Renault after deciding to part ways with Red Bull, and after two seasons at the French works team, Ricciardo moved to McLaren for 2021. READ: ‘Mature’ Alonso
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Jock Clear, a former Mercedes race engineer, has revealed that he “didn’t get on” with Nico Rosberg. Clear had worked at the Brackley-based team since its BAR days, and he became Rosberg’s race engineer after the team was rebranded Mercedes ahead of the 2010 season. READ: Bottas Says He Can Now Laugh About High-Speed Crash
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Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas has said that he can now laugh about the high-speed collision he suffered at the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The crash occurred as George Russell was trying to overtake Bottas for P9 on the run down to turn one, but the Williams driver lost control of his car after touching
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