Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has admitted that putting pressure on the FIA often leads to the gaining of a “potential advantage.” Wolff and Mercedes have been calling for the governing body to change some rules to address the porpoising issues the German team have encountered this year. At multiple races, Sir Lewis Hamilton and
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It’s been 47 years since a female last took part in a Formula 1 race, with Lella Lombardi having scored half a point at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix. Lombardi and Maria Teresa de Filippis are the only two female drivers to have taken part in an F1 race, with three other women having tried but ultimately
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The 2022 summer break has certainly been a fascinating one so far, with Daniel Ricciardo’s situation at the McLaren F1 Team dominating the Formula 1 headlines. The Australian who is contracted until the end of 2023, has demanded £17 million from the Woking-based side to leave the team. This is so Alpine F1 Team reserve
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With Charles Leclerc having lost the race lead nine times this season through reliability problems, strategic and driver errors, Max Verstappen has amassed an arguably uncatchable lead in the Drivers’ Championship. Red Bull Racing have taken the fight to Ferrari and pushed the Scuderia into countless errors. Between Verstappen and Sergio Pérez, Red Bull Racing
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Toto Wolff has admitted that Max Verstappen deserved to win the 2021 World Championship. Verstappen went head to head with Wolff’s driver, Sir Lewis Hamilton, in one of the greatest battles Formula 1 has ever seen last year. It ended with the two drivers heading into the final race of the year in Abu Dhabi
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Mercedes F1 reserve driver and season seven Formula E champion Nyck de Vries was caught up in a feisty encounter at the season eight finale at Seoul, South Korea, with former F1 driver Pascal Wehrlein. De Vries who drives for the Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team and Wehrlein who drives for the Porsche Formula E Team,
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Toto Wolff has admitted that he’s “not proud” of smashing headphones in anger during the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. In the penultimate round of the season, the titanic title fight between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton heated up as it so often had that year. With Hamilton trying to pass the Red Bull driver
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has been involved in a number of scary crashes so far in his racing career, and he has seen a lot of nasty accidents during his time. Sadly, some of those have ended worse than others, but generally, the seven-time world champion has no fear when he gets behind the wheel of
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Reigning World Champion Max Verstappen has one hand already on the 2022 Drivers’ World Championship, with the Dutchman having an emphatic 80-point advantage over Charles Leclerc. Whilst the margin means Verstappen can sit out the entire triple-header that takes place after the summer break, and still have at least a two-point lead, ex-F1 driver David Coulthard has sent
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1978 champion Mario Andretti has aimed another dig at Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff after the Austrian’s latest protestations of the American entering a Formula 1 team in 2024. Andretti’s son Michael currently runs an IndyCar and Formula E team, filed paperwork months ago as he officially applied to put a team into Formula 1
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