Senior Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has joked that the Milton Keynes-based team was worried that Max Verstappen’s stricken car would end up at Ferrari’s base in Maranello after it suffered a reliability issue during Free Practice Two (FP2) at Imola. After his car’s driveshaft broke during the session, Verstappen parked just after the
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Williams driver George Russell has said he believes Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc will be Formula 1’s biggest talents in the future – and the young Brit is open to going toe-to-toe with them, even as a team-mate. With Sir Lewis Hamilton considering retiring from F1 at the end of the season – and with
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Former F1 racer Jacques Villeneuve has said he doesn’t understand why Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff criticised George Russell for trying to overtake Valtteri Bottas at the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The pair collided as Russell had a run on Bottas down the start-finish straight and tried to overtake him on the approach to
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The Alpine F1 Team is looking to bring a number of upgrades over the next few grand prix after testing out a number of “promising” new components at Imola, team executive director Marcin Budkowski has said. Alpine scored their first points of 2021 at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix last weekend, with Esteban Ocon and
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It’s fair to say Nikita Mazepin’s first two race weekends in Formula 1 were poor, with him crashing out of his debut in Bahrain after just a matter of seconds and being the only driver to finish last weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix two laps down on the leaders. The F1 community has been quick
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Renault have poked fun at Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff and Williams driver George Russell following the Austrian jokingly threatening to demote the young Brit to the Renault Clio Cup after his high-impact shunt with Valtteri Bottas at Imola. The pair collided on lap 32 of the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, and Russell clearly
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Senior Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has said Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff should consider the silver lining of the high-speed crash between Valtteri Bottas and George Russell during the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The pair collided near Tamburello, triggering a multi-impact crash which ended both of their races and led to an
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Nikita Mazepin has said he is surprised by the “standard of behaviour” in Formula 1 and admitted that there are some “unspoken rules” which he is still learning. The Russian driver entered Formula 1 as public enemy number one after he groped a model in December, and he has struggled in the opening two F1
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Sir Lewis Hamilton “often makes mistakes” but is usually able to get away with them because of the superiority of his Mercedes, ex-F1 racer Jan Lammers has claimed. Hamilton made a clear mistake in the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, with him going wide at the Tosa hairpin while trying to lap the Williams of
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Four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel is a “finished man” but it is unlikely that the Aston Martin F1 Team will fire him, former F3000 driver Jason Watt has said. Vettel has struggled in the opening two rounds of the 2021 Championship with Aston Martin, and Watt said it is clear that he is still under
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