Peter Bonnington and Toto Wolff were both on hand to offer Sir Lewis Hamilton some consolation after issues with his DRS denied him the chance to fight for pole in Hungary. Having been around a second adrift of Ferrari’s pace during practice, the Silver Arrows managed to top Q1 as they showed signs of significant
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Mercedes have used another of their eight exemptions this season by working on the W13 after hours at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Each team is given eight free passes to break curfew and stay behind late into the night to work on the car, and the Silver Arrows have now used three of theirs. The
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Mercedes driver George Russell is “confident” that his fellow drivers feel the same way as he does about the potential health impacts of “porpoising” and bouncing. Ever since pre-season testing, the cars have visibly ad audibly been making heavy contact with the track surface, and this affects the cars’ performance down the straights. Raising the
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Mercedes’ George Russell has affirmed that his team still have a lot of work to do if they are to make it back to the front of the grid having scored podiums in all of the last five races. The Silver Arrows looked woeful at the start of the season and, at the Emilia Romagna
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Mercedes’ George Russell believes that he is performing well at present, but he is aware that he can be even better, and this is what he is aiming for. Coming into the team to replace 10-time race winner Valtteri Bottas meant that the 24-year-old already had big shoes to fill, but racing alongside a seven-time
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Vice chairman of Ferrari and Enzo Ferrari’s son, Piero, believes that Mercedes are trying to skirt the rules in order to make themselves more competitive, and affirms that his team will fight against it. This comes after the Silver Arrows urged the FIA to look into the technical regulations following the arrival of the “porpoising”
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Valtteri Bottas took a playful dig at George Russell ahead of the French Grand Pric last weekend in response to the Twitter trend in the week prior. Fans on social media started posting memes about the Mercedes driver, joking about the things they would expect someone like him to do. Quintessentially British, it was suggested
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes that the mentality of his team is what will help them get through their rough patch. The Silver Arrows have been struggling to find performance under the new technical regulations so far this season, and neither Sir Lewis Hamilton nor George Russell have managed a win yet. They did,
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Sir Lewis Hamilton claimed his and the Mercedes F1 Team’s best result of the season so far at the French Grand Prix, after crossing the line in second-place at the Circuit Paul Ricard. The seven-time World Champion has now finished on the podium at four consecutive races, with the Brit seemingly now getting the better
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Sergio Perez believes that race control is partly responsible for him losing third place to George Russell in the closing stages of the French Grand Prix. Perez was passed off the start of the race by Sir Lewis Hamilton, and fell back from the seven-time champion as Mercedes’ race pace shone through again. He started
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