Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has pinpointed the source of Valtteri Bottas’ difficulty to battle Sir Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen in the opening four rounds of the 2021 F1 Championship. The Finn is currently third in the Drivers’ Standings on 47 points, 44 points adrift of Championship leader Hamilton. READ: Wrong For ‘Russian Kid’
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Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas has admitted that he could have made things easier for Sir Lewis Hamilton when the seven-time World Champion was trying to overtake him during the Spanish Grand Prix. Hamilton and Bottas were on different strategies, and with the Brit fighting Max Verstappen for the lead of the race, Mercedes instructed Bottas
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Williams driver George Russell could replace Valtteri Bottas at Mercedes before the end of the 2021 season, the Daily Mail reported this week, citing a Silver Arrows source. The Finn took pole position last time out in Portugal, but he didn’t have the pace to match his Mercedes team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton and he lost
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has won the 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix to extend his lead in the Drivers’ Standings over Championship rival Max Verstappen. Hamilton started the race second on the grid, behind his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas, and the seven-time World Champion fell to P3 early in the race after Verstappen overtook him during the
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Christian Horner has said Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff should mind his own business after the Austrian suggested that the VW Group may partner Red Bull in the coming years. Wolff made the remarks after it was recently announced that Red Bull had poached a senior Mercedes engineer for their newly formed powertrains division, which
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F1 rookie Nikita Mazepin needs to learn that Haas’ 2021 car is “not as good as a Mercedes”, team principal Guenther Steiner has said. Mazepin struggled in his opening two race weekends in Formula 1 with the American racing outfit, with him spinning several times and crashing out of his debut grand prix after just
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has said that former Mercedes engine chief Andy Cowell is unlikely to join the team’s new powertrains division. Horner previously said it is unlikely that Cowell would join Red Bull, but fresh speculation about him joining the Milton Keynes-based team was prompted after it was announced that senior Mercedes
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Former racing driver Mario Andretti has said it is “wrong” for Nikita Mazepin to be able to qualify for a Super Licence while IndyCar racer Colton Herta is unable to get one. Mazepin’s fifth-place finish in the 2020 Formula 2 Championship, coupled with his finishing position in previous campaigns, was enough for him to qualify
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Mark Webber, a former team-mate of Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull, has said he believes the four-time World Champion is still “tired” from the six years he spent at Ferrari. Vettel joined Aston Martin for the 2021 F1 season, and many in the paddock had tipped him to benefit from the change of environment, especially
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Haas F1 rookie Nikita Mazepin has said that he believes Mick Schumacher’s ties to Ferrari give the German certain advantages over him, as they both navigate their debut season in Formula 1. Schumacher was a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy (FDA) during his junior racing career, and he continues to be affiliated with the
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