Sir Lewis Hamilton’s third power unit has been sent for examination at Mercedes’ powertrains base in Brixworth, after his collision with Fernando Alonso at the Belgian Grand Prix has left the team concerned over potential damage to it. Hamilton started the race from fourth and made an excellent start; the Brit was up to third
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Jean-Eric Vergne, Daniel Ricciardo’s former team-mate, says he doesn’t know what has happened to the Aussie. Ricciardo has struggled enormously since joining McLaren at the start of the 2021 campaign, rarely able to get anywhere near team-mate Lando Norris. He’s been so disappointing in fact that the British team have elected to end his contract
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Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolff, was amused when he saw Audi’s jovial dig at Mercedes last week. Last week, Audi confirmed, after months of speculation, that they will be entering Formula 1 in 2026, and they will be purchasing an existing team to do so. They therefore will not have to pay the $200 million
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Juan Manuel Correa shares a physio with Oscar Piastri and says Alpine have been “playing” with the Aussie. Piastri has been in the news more than ever in recent times, caught in the middle of a dispute between Alpine and McLaren. When Alpine lost Fernando Alonso to Aston Martin, they announced that Piastri – their
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Sir Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso are two drivers who know each other very well, and their relationship has always been a fascinating one. Their first experience of one another on a Formula 1 racetrack was in 2007, when Hamilton made his debut for McLaren. They both won four races that year as they challenged
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Red Bull’s Sergio Perez believes that the Belgian Grand Prix was an outlier for Ferrari, so they will be back on it in Zandvoort this weekend. The Scuderia made a solid start to the weekend at Spa, taking a one-two in first practice as Carlos Sainz led Charles Leclerc, but Max Verstappen went fastest in
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Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz does not believe there will be a pattern in the final part of the season of Red Bull being consistently faster than the Scuderia. The Belgian Grand Prix weekend actually started off pretty strong for the Italian side, with Sainz leading a one-two ahead of team-mate Charles Leclerc in the opening practice
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Sir Lewis Hamilton said that he almost broke his back on the way down from his collision with Fernando Alonso at the Belgian Grand Prix. The seven-time champion started fourth, one position behind the Spaniard, and cleared him at the start of the race. The double world champion was not done with his former team-mate
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After needing to win the Belgian Grand Prix to remain within 80 points of championship leader Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc endured a terrible weekend at Spa-Francorchamps, where Ferrari’s strategy once again was left to be questioned. Leclerc qualified fourth for the race but started P15 due to yet another grid penalty for an engine change.
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Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolff, has advised caution from his team while designing the W14 amid the continued frustrations being caused by the W13. The new technical regulations introduced this year saw the return of ground effect aerodynamics and, as such, different aerodynamic concepts were necessitated. Everyone was trying to figure out which direction was
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