Veteran journalist Peter Windsor has sent Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff a stark warning, to prepare for complete chaos. Windsor predicts that Lewis Hamilton and George Russell will develop a rivalry “10 times worse” than that of Hamilton and 2016 World Champion Nico Rosberg, something Wolff will likely not want to imagine. Rosberg’s and Hamilton’s
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Formula 1 post-season awards time is here, with multiple news outlets running their own polls to decide the best and worst drivers in multiple different categories. Autosport crowned Lewis Hamilton as the British Driver of the Year, but Express Sport were not as kind to the seven-time world champion, nominating him for the award of
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Not many people knew what to expect from the relationship between Lewis Hamilton and his new teammate George Russell at the start of the season, with the seven-time world champion sharing some contrasting relationships over the years. Hamilton’s most recent teammate Valtteri Bottas shared the friendliest relationship with the 37-year-old, with the Finn often happy
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2022 was a year that will always haunt Mercedes and remind them of one simple thing; they aren’t as invincible as they once were. The hybrid era has been an incredibly dominant period for the Germans, with the side having claimed eight consecutive Constructors’ Championships from 2014-2020, and six consecutive Drivers’ Championships from 2014-2020. 2022,
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Mercedes’ driver pairing in 2023 is a scary one, with both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell more motivated for success than ever before, following a below par 2022 full of struggles. The Silver Arrows never quite got going under the new regulations, taking the wrong development path in the early stages of the year before
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Ex-F1 driver Karun Chandhok has warned Mercedes that returning to the front instantly in 2023 might not be “easy”, with a small regulation tweak being made that could affect the Brackley-based outfit more than others. Following the dramatic porpoising phenomena that cursed a number of sides early in the year as a result of the
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2022 was a year of frustration for Mercedes, George Russell and Lewis Hamilton, as they had to get to grips with the shock of not being the best team on the grid. Following so much domination in the hybrid era, it was a huge surprise to the team to have slipped so far behind both
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Formula 1 teams usually adopt one of two models with their driver pairing: they take one two very similar drivers to build a strong team, such as Ferrari with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, or they acquire a championship contender and a wingman, such as Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez. Mercedes have switched between the
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George Russell’s first season was a very impressive one with Mercedes, only finishing outside of the top five on race day three times over the course of the season. With the W13 rendered uncompetitive while the Silver Arrow’s focused on solving their major porpoising problem, Russell’s early podium finishes in Australia, Spain and Baku are
More2022 will be a year that Mercedes would like to quickly forget, seeing their eight year winning run of the constructors’ championship come to an abrupt end, with a third-place finish last season. The new regulations that came into effect at the start of the year proved to be a major stumbling block for the
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