With a 116-point deficit to championship leader Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc has effectively accepted that 2022 won’t be his year, with the Ferrari driver admitting that his team will now target “preparing for next year”. Leclerc’s acceptance came before the Singapore Grand Prix, which returns for the first time since 2019 following the Coronavirus pandemic. It is
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has rallied his team to maintain the push amid their tantalisingly close proximity to the 2022 championship. Verstappen engaged in a slugfest with Sir Lewis Hamilton last year, and he passed the seven-time champion on the final lap of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to claim his maiden world title. This
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Max Verstappen is certainly regarded very highly by some of the most elite figures in Formula 1, none more so than F1’s managing director Ross Brawn. Brawn is someone who knows exactly what they are talking about when it comes to exceptional drivers, having played an instrumental role in Michael Schumacher’s career at both Benetton
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Reigning World Champion Max Verstappen can retain his 2021 Drivers’ Championship at this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, which was absent from the last two seasons following the Coronavirus pandemic. Despite boasting a 116-point lead, it is quite unlikely that the Dutchman will claim his second World Championship this weekend. Should Verstappen win his 12th race of the season and
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has affirmed that he a second world championship is not on his mind heading into the Singapore Grand Prix this weekend. The Dutchman has won 11 of the opening 16 rounds of the 2022 season thus far, and he is bidding to successfully defend the championship he won at the Abu
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has a superb chance of winning this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, according to figures from sports betting intelligence provider AEX Analytics. The Dutchman has won 11 races so far this season, and he comes into the final six rounds of the year 116 points ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in the
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Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez and Red Bull are under Netflix’s spotlight this weekend at the Singapore Grand Prix. Verstappen boycotted his participation in the series last year due to its tendency to ‘fake’ rivalries off the circuit, and he wanted no part of it. Formula 1 CEO, Stefano Domenicali, indicated at the start of the
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Max Verstappen has joked that he won a wager with his Red Bull team at the Italian Grand Prix, so there is no new chassis at the Singapore Grand Prix. For weeks, there have been rumours that the Austrian team are planning a new, lightweight chassis to bring to the RB18, ready for their final
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has conceded that winning the title with several rounds to go is not a great image for Formula 1. In 2008, the championship went to the wire for the third consecutive season, and Hamilton was crowned the third champion in as many seasons. The last time that had happened was in 1995,
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Max Verstappen started the Singapore Grand Prix in excellent fashion, ending FP1 in second place, behind 2021 rival Sir Lewis Hamilton, who topped his first session of the season. The Dutchman ended the opening session at the first Singapore GP since 2019, just under a tenth behind the Mercedes driver, but did spin late on after locking-up.
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