Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has defended Sir Lewis Hamilton, after the British driver was called an “idiot” after colliding with Fernando Alonso at the Belgian Grand Prix. The seven-time World Champion made an excellent start to the race and quickly found himself in third and right behind Fernando Alonso for second. The British driver
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Sir Lewis Hamilton pointed out that his career has been more successful than that of Fernando Alonso after hearing of the Spaniard’s outburst during the Belgian Grand Prix. Alonso started third in Spa ahead of Hamilton, who cleared the Alpine driver at the start of the race. The Spaniard then slipstreamed the seven-time champion heading
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Very few people in the world can truly tell you what it takes to be a world champion in Formula 1. A truly magnificent level of talent, a terrific mindset, and a tremendous amount of will and determination are just some of the attributes that the very best possess, as well as… aim? Indeed, Max
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Prior to the Belgian Grand Prix, many had predicted that the FIA’s technical directive would see Red Bull Racing and Ferrari drop closer to Mercedes; however, with Max Verstappen winning his ninth race of the season by 17.8 seconds, this clearly wasn’t the case. The FIA clamped down on porpoising at the Belgian Grand Prix, by measuring how
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Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, has confirmed that the team did not bring a new chassis to the Belgian Grand Prix after their dominant performance. The Austrian side were generally expected to be quick at Spa due to the high-speed nature of the circuit and the long periods of full-throttle driving. 70 percent of
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The last few years have not been easy for Ferrari, and while they initially brought criticism upon themselves this season, that has now turned into savage mockery. This season started off so well for the team in red; they took their first win and one-two since 2019 in Bahrain in the opening round of 2022,
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Mattia Binotto thinks that Red Bull could be exceeding the budget cap, and that the FIA aren’t monitoring the matter closely enough. Ferrari and Red Bull started the 2022 campaign fairly evenly matched, but the latter team have now pulled ahead in terms of both points and pace. That was abundantly clear to see at
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Max Verstappen’s Red Bull engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, had a hilarious response to his driver when he noted that there were no yellow flags during practice for the Belgian Grand Prix. Red Bull were not pleased when Verstappen was given a five-second penalty in Qatar last season after traversing a yellow flag, but going flat-out anyway.
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Red Bull Racing chief advisor Dr Helmut Marko believes that Max Verstappen will retain his World Drivers’ Championship with “two or three” more wins, which could realistically see the Dutchman win the championship at the first fly-away race following the European races. After claiming his ninth victory of the season at the Belgian Grand Prix,
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After a string of good performances, it was back to reality for the Mercedes F1 Team at the Belgian Grand Prix, after their podium run came to a disappointing end, with Sir Lewis Hamilton also enduring his first DNF of the season. The weekend went from bad to worse for the Silver Arrows, after Hamilton qualified 1.8
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