Lewis Hamilton may have somehow qualified in the optimum position for Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix, after a mistake at the start of Q3 saw the seven-time World Champion end up in third. The Mercedes driver enjoyed his and the team’s best Saturday by a mile, after astonishingly topping Q1 and Q2, before Q3 slipped away
More
George Russell was just three-tenths away from claiming his second-ever pole position and Mercedes’ second of the season, after only just being beaten by Max Verstappen for pole at the Mexican Grand Prix. Whilst three-tenths might sound like a lot, Russell was actually on-track to beat the double World Champion’s time at the end of
More
Lewis Hamilton will start the Mexican Grand Prix from arguably the best position, after claiming third for Sunday’s race. Mercedes have arguably looked the strongest throughout the weekend so far and actually topped FP2 and FP3 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit; however, neither Hamilton nor George Russell could claim the team’s second pole of
More
If the statistics regarding the Mexican Grand Prix are anything to go by, then Mercedes might be on-track to claim their first victory of the season; the question is, though, will it be George Russell, or Lewis Hamilton? Mercedes have looked strong all weekend at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit, and came within a whisker
More
Away from Max Verstappen, who has stormed his way to a second world championship, the drivers’ championship standings remain close between many drivers coming into the final three rounds of the season. This is the case at Mercedes with Lewis Hamilton and George Russell being separated by only 20 points, with the latter having the
More
George Russell has set his sights on a podium following Mercedes best Friday practice sessions of the year. It was another disrupted Friday, similar to Austin last time out, with FP1 being used by some teams to fulfil their young driver obligations, and FP2 being used as a Pirelli tyre test. Russell, who was replaced
More
Carlos Sainz enjoyed a very successful opening day at the Mexican Grand Prix after topping FP1 and technically ending the first day of the weekend as fastest. The Spaniard led a Ferrari one-two Friday morning at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit, in front of a huge crowd. Sainz claimed top spot in FP1 after setting
More
Nyck de Vries got his final chance to drive a Mercedes car on Friday, with the Silver Arrows reserve driver taking part in the young drivers’ practice session in Mexico before his move to AlphaTauri next year, where he will have a full time race seat. The Dutchman jumped into George Russell’s car for the
More
There is never a day without controversy in Formula 1, with Friday having been yet further proof of that ahead of the Mexican Grand Prix. Following on from their announcement the day after the Japanese Grand Prix that Red Bull had breached the budget cap, the FIA finally informed the world on what their punishment
More
At the start of the season, George Russell looked like an inspired signing for Mercedes, and a future world champion, picking up podiums and regularly outperforming F1 legend and teammate Lewis Hamilton. In recent races, however, the young Brit’s reputation has taken a bit of a knock, with Russell being accused of ruining other drivers’
More