If the statistics regarding the Mexican Grand Prix are anything to go by, then Mercedes might be on-track to claim their first victory of the season; the question is, though, will it be George Russell, or Lewis Hamilton? Mercedes have looked strong all weekend at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit, and came within a whisker
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Mercedes deployed a temporary driver pairing of Lewis Hamilton and Nyck de Vries in practice on Friday, looking to fulfil their young driver requirement for the year, giving the AlphaTauri bound Dutchman a final run out in the W13. Hamilton was the fastest man on track out of the Pirelli tyre test runners in FP2
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Mick Schumacher is in the fight of his life to keep his seat at Haas for 2023, with the American team ready to look elsewhere for Kevin Magnussen’s partner. The German has been told he needs to score points between now and the end of the season if he is to have any chance of
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George Russell has set his sights on a podium following Mercedes best Friday practice sessions of the year. It was another disrupted Friday, similar to Austin last time out, with FP1 being used by some teams to fulfil their young driver obligations, and FP2 being used as a Pirelli tyre test. Russell, who was replaced
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner is taking his side’s ‘Cashgate’ penalty “on the chin”, despite believing that the Austrians have been slapped with a “draconian” punishment. Following on from the FIA’s announcement the day after Max Verstappen claimed his second World Championship that Red Bull had exceeded the 2021 budget cap, it was declared by
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Lando Norris has been a revelation for McLaren since joining the team in 2019, getting better year by year and consistently challenging in the top half of the grid regardless of the quality of his car. The young Brit has had an astonishing year, sat seventh in the drivers’ championship on 109 points, behind only
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Carlos Sainz enjoyed a very successful opening day at the Mexican Grand Prix after topping FP1 and technically ending the first day of the weekend as fastest. The Spaniard led a Ferrari one-two Friday morning at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit, in front of a huge crowd. Sainz claimed top spot in FP1 after setting
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Max Verstappen endured an average start to the Mexican Grand Prix weekend by his impeccable standards, as the double World Champion ended the opening day behind some of his key rivals. The Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit is always one of the most important to gather data at prior to qualifying and the race, due to
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After coming within six laps of winning last weekend’s United States Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton has admitted that if the team could claim a victory from one of the final three races of the season, then the emotions would be “unmeasurable”. It really was looking like Hamilton was going to break his and Mercedes’ 2022
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Charles Leclerc has had a disrupted race weekend so far, with issues in FP1 and a crash in FP2, but the Monegasque driver will still be hoping to put his car at the front of the grid during qualifying on Saturday. Leclerc set the second fastest time in the first practice session on Friday, however
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