Ex-Formula 1 drivers Jenson Button and Ralf Schumacher have both shared their views on why seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton is yet to sign a contract extension with Mercedes, despite both Hamilton and team boss Toto Wolff having claimed last season that one would be signed. With a new deal having not yet been signed,
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This weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix is set to be an incredibly important one for Mercedes but for all the wrong reasons, as they’ll truly discover just how far behind Red Bull they are once again. After enduring a woeful 2022 campaign, the expectation was that they’d bounce back in pre-season testing with an excellent car;
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As well as being one of the best F1 drivers of all time on the track, Lewis Hamilton is also one of the best off the track. The Brit can often be found sharing important causes on his social media to raise awareness via his millions of fans, as well as starting campaigns of his
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Lewis Hamilton channelled his inner Sebastian Vettel ahead of pre-season testing getting underway, with the seven-time World Champion and former team-mate Valtteri Bottas having been spotted taking a look inside the cockpit of Red Bull’s RB19. Similar to what Vettel did in the past, Hamilton and Bottas were seen peering over the side of Max
MoreIt has been reported by an unnamed Mercedes source that Red Bull are entering the forthcoming season with the ability to run the RB19 “ten millimetres lower than everybody else”, with the Germans being unable to lower their car to the same height as the Austrians as their “underbody would break”. It appears that engineering genius Adrian
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Pre-season testing results should always be taken with a pinch of salt, as different run plans, fuel loads and tyre compounds lead to all sorts of varied lap times. It is almost impossible to ignore the progress of Aston Martin however, with Fernando Alonso and Felipe Drugovich, with the latter standing in for the injured
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has revealed that seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton is “super determined” ahead of the 2023 season, despite a difficult few days of testing. Without taking testing into consideration, Hamilton still enters the forthcoming season on the back of his worst campaign at the pinnacle of motorsport, where he failed to
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The 2022 season was a disaster for Mercedes, as the team’s design for the W13 simply was not the best way to tackle the major regulation changes. Mercedes have admitted that the misinterpreted the physics surrounding the new regulations and ultimately this condemned them to a third-place finish in the constructors’ championship as Ferrari and
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Having a strong relationship with your race engineer is key to success in Formula 1, with champions such as Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen having worked with the current race engineers, Peter Bonnington and Gianpiero Lambiase, for a number of years. Bonnington has been working with Hamilton ever since he signed for Mercedes, with the
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Mercedes started the new era of Formula 1 poorly last year, as the team were haunted by a porpoising issue and lack of performance which saw them struggle to even lay a glove on Ferrari and Red Bull. Towards the end of the season, upgrades applied to the W13 saw it become more competitive, with
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