To celebrate pride month, Mercedes have put a rainbow theme on the Mercedes Benz logo on the front nose of the W13. The month of June represents a month of awareness of the LGBTQ+ community in a bid to help fight the inequality and prejudice that its members go through on a daily basis. The
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Esteban Ocon recently featured on the Beyond the Grid podcast, where he spoke all about his Formula 1 journey to date. The Frenchman, who is only 25 years old, has already had a turbulent career in the sport. Ocon’s F1 career appeared to be over before it had really gotten going, after being booted from
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Mercedes trackside engineer Andrew Shovlin believes that Fernando Alonso ultimately prevented Sir Lewis Hamilton from challenging George Russell and Lando Norris at the Monaco Grand Prix. Hamilton was denied a final run in qualifying last weekend when a combination of Sergio Perez, Carlos Sainz and Alonso caused a red flag, and the seven-time champion had
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Fernando Alonso has detailed the extent of the damage done to his hand after his crash at the Australian Grand Prix in April. Alonso had set a purple middle sector in Australia during his first run, and had also set a first sector quicker than polesitter Charles Leclerc, but he lost oil pressure due to
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Former Formula 1 driver Jolyon Palmer believes that the stewards were justified in giving Esteban Ocon a penalty in Monaco for his collision with Sir Lewis Hamilton. In the opening stages of the rain-affected race on Sunday, Hamilton moved to the inside of the Frenchman as they head up to Sainte-Devote, and they made contact
MoreAlpine’s Esteban Ocon was left wondering what had changed between last year and this season that compelled the stewards to penalise him for an incident over which they would have taken no action in 2021. Ocon was racing hard with Sir Lewis Hamilton during the early, wet stages of the Monaco Grand Prix and, as
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Haas driver Mick Schumacher’s name has been thrown in the hat regarding who Aston Martin might decide to sign should Sebastian Vettel leave at the end of the year. Vettel has finished in the points only once in 2022 with a hugely disappointing AMR22 that has encountered a litany of complications, and it will be
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Fernando Alonso has revealed that he tried to protect team-mate Esteban Ocon by speeding up towards the end of the Monaco Grand Prix, but it was not enough to mitigate the Frenchman’s penalty. After Mick Schumacher’s crash had caused a red flag, the drivers needed to go to the end of the race on the
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Fernando Alonso has accepted that his crash in qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix was his fault, and has therefore offered an apology to his Alpine team. Alonso was gunning to try and displace Lando Norris for P5 and best of the rest having initially set a lap good enough for seventh. However, he overcooked
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Alpine’s Fernando Alonso sees no reason why he cannot add a third championship to his collection after his successful return to Formula 1 last season. Alonso scored points on 15 occasions in 2021 having returned from a two-year hiatus from the pinnacle of motorsport, and out-qualified team-mate Esteban Ocon 11 times while out-performing the same
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