Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff was overall disappointed with his team’s qualifying performance at the French Grand Prix, but lauded a brilliant lap from Sir Lewis Hamilton to take fourth. Having come into the weekend with expectations on them to challenge Ferrari and Red Bull, the Silver Arrows have spent much of the weekend running
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Lando Norris was left “very surprised” after qualifying at the French Grand Prix, with the McLaren F1 Team’s new upgrades appearing to be working successfully at the Circuit Paul Ricard. Remarkably, Norris managed to not only claim a fifth-place start for Sunday’s race, but also managed to split the Mercedes F1 Team duo. Splitting the
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Coming into the French Grand Prix weekend, the smooth track surface and long straights of the Circuit Paul Ricard were expected to work in Mercedes’ favour as they hunt their first win of the season. However, by qualifying, they had been trying all sorts of different set-ups to figure out how to maximise performance, without
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has revealed that there is only one team on the grid that is not on board with his diversity and inclusion agreement. Hamilton set up the Hamilton commission in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd in America, and this was followed by the creation of his Mission 44 charity together with
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Huge question marks were raised in 2016 as to why Mercedes decided to swap over their mechanics as Nico Rosberg beat Sir Lewis Hamilton to the title. Hamilton and Rosberg had gone through a bitter rivalry in 2014 and 2015 as they fought for the title, winning 32 of the 38 races between them across
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Mercedes trackside engineer Andrew Shovlin has told Red Bull and Ferrari that there is no evidence to suggest that the proposed rule changes next year are designed to help them. In order to make sure that “porpoising” and bouncing do not become unsafe next season, the FIA are changing the design of the cars next
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff is keen to see how Nyck de Vries gets on when he is given his first official outing with the team during the first practice session at the French Grand Prix. Each team is required to give a practice session to a rookie or development driver on at least two
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff no longer subscribes to the idea that one should do whatever it takes to win, insisting that he would prefer to win with “humility” and “integrity.” The comments come months after the highly controversial 2021 championship battle between Sir Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen concluded in quintessentially controversial fashion in
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Sir Lewis Hamilton reckons that Fernando Alonso was the toughest competitor he has had in his career. The Briton debuted with McLaren in 2007 alongside the Spaniard, and it quickly became apparent that the young upstart was there to put the sword to the double world champion, who had just switched from Renault after winning
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Red Bull’s Sergio Perez echoes Aston Martin driver Sebastian Vettel’s sentiment that abusive Formula 1 fans should be banned from ever attending a race again. There were horrible reports during the Austrian Grand Prix weekend of discrimination and harassment from drunk fans, and some of the victims were invited into the Mercedes and Aston Martin
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