Remi Taffin, Renault’s engine technical director, left the French automotive brand’s F1 operation in early July by “mutual agreement”, the Enstone-based team confirmed this week. Taffin began working with Renault in Formula 1 in 1999, and he had remained at the team under its various different names until last month. READ: Perez: I Have ‘No
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Sir Lewis Hamilton was booed on several occasions over the course of the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend, with many Max Verstappen fans feeling that the seven-time World Champion deserved a harsher penalty for the incident involving him and the Dutch ace at Silverstone. British motorsport journalist Tom Clarkson has said he believes the boos weren’t
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Senior Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko has criticised Sir Lewis Hamilton for suggesting that Fernando Alonso defended too aggressively against him in the Hungarian Grand Prix. Hamilton was steadily making his way up the field after a poor tyre call for the restart of the race, but he encountered staunch resistance when he was
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has seemingly blocked a Formula 1 meme page on Instagram, around a week after the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix. The account in question, @F1Troll_, is the largest Formula One meme page on Instagram, with it currently having just shy of a half-a-million followers. READ: Perez: I Have ‘No Reason To Look Elsewhere’
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Mexican driver Sergio Perez is confident that a contract extension with Red Bull Racing will be finalised over Formula 1’s summer break. After Red Bull axed Pierre Gasly and Alex Albon, Perez was on notice to perform this season or be subject to a similar fate as that of his predecessors. READ: Stroll Could Join
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Double F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso has clarified the remark he made ahead of last weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, when he suggested that Max Verstappen’s nationality will make his Championship battle against Sir Lewis Hamilton more difficult for him. “He is not British, so it will always be more difficult for him,” Alonso said in
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The Williams F1 Team announced earlier this week that development driver Dan Ticktum had been dropped, with the Grove-based constructor not offering an explanation as to why they had decided to terminate their relationship. The move came hot on the heels of Ticktum insulting Nicholas Latifi, who has raced with Williams in Formula 1 since
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Valtteri Bottas was undoubtedly responsible for the turn one chaos at last weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, which resulted in the race being red-flagged, forced a handful of cars to retire, and jumbled up the grid for the restart. The Finnish driver didn’t try to dodge blame, and he said he misjudged the conditions and consequently
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Lance Stroll and Valtteri Bottas could swap teams at the end of the season, with the young Canadian likely to be preferred to George Russell by Sir Lewis Hamilton. That’s according to 1997 F1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, who believes Stroll could fill Bottas’ shoes at Mercedes and be a strong second driver without disrupting
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The 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix provided viewers plenty of action and entertainment, with first-lap carnage drastically changing the grid for the restart. Alpine driver Esteban Ocon won his first-ever F1 race and secured his second-ever podium finish after holding off Sebastian Vettel, who was looking to hand Aston Martin their first victory in Formula 1.
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