Aston Martin have been the shock team of 2023 so far, with the AMR23 looking like a quicker car in terms of race pace than the Ferrari and the Mercedes. The team’s sudden rise to the top has been on the cards for some time however, with Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll funding the team’s project
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Now is not a good time to be a Mercedes fan, as the team have once again got their design concept wrong, leaving them lagging behind their rivals for a second season in a row. After the failures of the W13, this season’s car was expected to look radically different, but this was not the
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The 2008 F1 season was filled with drama and ended in spectacular fashion, with a young Lewis Hamilton overtaking Timo Glock on the final lap of the Brazilian Grand Prix to snatch the title away from Felipe Massa. This was the first of Hamilton’s seven championship victories, but former F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone has now
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The Lance Stroll saga was the talk of pre-season testing, with the Canadian driver reportedly breaking his wrist following a cycling accident in Spain. The 24-year-old did not take part in any of Bahrain’s pre-season tests, sparking rumours that he would not be fit to race in the first race of the season. Both Aston
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After struggling so much in 2022 with the W13, it was expected that Mercedes would turn up to pre-season testing in Bahrain this year with a radically different car. To many fans’ surprise, other than the colour, the W14 did not look too dissimilar to the W13, which struggled with a major porpoising problem and
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Seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton has warned Mercedes that they must find some downforce “ASAP” if they are to challenge the frontrunners, with the 38-year-old having finished the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix in fifth. It was a disappointing weekend for Mercedes, who have seemingly slipped to fourth in the pecking order behind Aston Martin, given
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Lance Stroll’s heroic return to action almost ended in embarrassing fashion at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, after the Canadian clipped new team-mate Fernando Alonso at Turn Four on the opening lap. Given his condition, Stroll had been performing incredibly at the Bahrain International Circuit, given that he had surgery to fix his broken wrist.
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Having spent the entirety of the 2022 season without a win, Lewis Hamilton would have hoped that Mercedes would have been able to provide him with a championship contending car once again this year. Unfortunately for the 38-year-old, this is not at all the case, with Mercedes looking miles behind their rivals in terms of
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Coming into the 2023 season, many fans expected Mercedes to take a massive leap forward and return to race winning contention following their disappointing 2022. This was not the case however, as the Silver Arrows actually took a step backwards in Bahrain to become the fourth fastest team on the grid. The team were never
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Former Formula 1 team owner Eddie Jordan has admitted to once telling a BBC producer to “get stuffed”, after he decided to speak Irish to X-Men star Michael Fassbender. The former Jordan F1 Team owner carried out the grid walks for the BBC during 2013, where at the Canadian Grand Prix he spoke Irish to
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