If you had told Mercedes after the first four rounds of the season that they would be in a position to pressure Ferrari going into the last nine races, they likely would have bitten your hand off. 2022 did not kick off well for the reigning and eight-time constructors’ champions, who had just come off
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1992 Formula 1 World Champion Nigel Mansell insists that Mercedes F1 newbie George Russell is doing a “great job”, with the Brit currently ahead of Sir Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers’ Championship. Russell has adapted to life with the Silver Arrows extremely quickly and looks set to be the team’s lead driver once Hamilton retires
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Sir Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes together dominated the turbo-hybrid era of Formula 1, often making the pinnacle of motorsport frustratingly predictable. But, with the seven-time world champion approaching 40 and potentially lacking the appetite for an intra-team fight with George Russell, the Silver Arrows may well need to find a replacement in the next couple
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has shut down any suggestions that he is looking to move Sir Lewis Hamilton on at the end of this season. The seven-time champion recently conceded in an interview with Vanity Fair, for whom he is their September cover star, that he considered his future at the end of last
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Toto Wolff says it’s “natural” that tensions will increase between Sir Lewis Hamilton and George Russell once they’re given a better car. So far in their first season as team-mates at Mercedes, Hamilton and Russell have enjoyed a friendly relationship, not clashing on or off track. This is contrary to what many expected, with it
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has revealed that he has been analysing Manchester United in a bid to avoid the slump the English football giants have experienced since 2013. United won 38 major titles in the 26 years that Sir Alex Ferguson led the club, before the legendary Scot retired at the end of the
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Reigning World Champion Max Verstappen has one hand already on the 2022 Drivers’ World Championship, with the Dutchman having an emphatic 80-point advantage over Charles Leclerc. Whilst the margin means Verstappen can sit out the entire triple-header that takes place after the summer break, and still have at least a two-point lead, ex-F1 driver David Coulthard has sent
MoreIn an interview with Vanity Fair Magazine, Sir Lewis Hamilton has expressed his intent on racing beyond his current contract, which expires at the end of next season. Hamilton’s change of heart on extending his career comes after a recent run of form, which has seen the Mercedes F1 Team driver claim five consecutive podium
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The Mercedes F1 Team endured arguably the most challenging first half of the season than any other team, after having to overcome a horrific porpoising problem. It was a shock to all for Mercedes not to be in the fight for victory at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix; however, it was a taste of what
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Mercedes trackside engineer, Andrew Shovlin, has accredited the team’s recent upturn in form to their perseverance with a misbehaving W13. The Silver Arrows had initially looked marginally off the pace of Red Bull and Ferrari, but they hung onto the back of them in Bahrain in the opening round of the season, comfortably beating the
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