The Mercedes F1 Team appear to have taken a step backwards at the French Grand Prix, after Sir Lewis Hamilton qualified almost a second behind polesitter Charles Leclerc at the Circuit Paul Ricard. Hamilton was the top Mercedes on Saturday, something which has been a rare phenomenon this season, with team-mate George Russell usually dominant
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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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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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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 team principal Toto Wolff has said that the regulations for next season are “up in the air,” and believes that there should have been instant action taken against deflecting floor planks. The FIA introduced a technical directive at the Canadian Grand Prix, in which they will create a metric for oscillating movement from the
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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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Former Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean has conceded that the delay to his test drive of a Mercedes F1 car is entirely on him. The Frenchman was offered a test drive with the eight-time constructors’ champions at the end of 2020 when his career in the pinnacle of motorsport was curtailed by a horrific crash
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The Mercedes F1 Team’s hunt to end their victory drought may finally come to an end this weekend at the French Grand Prix, with many predicting the Silver Arrows to be favourites at the Circuit Paul Ricard. It’s been a troublesome first-half of the season for Mercedes, who have taken nearly half a year to get on
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Mercedes’ George Russell has conceded that he did not expect team principal Toto Wolff to be as involved as he is in the technical aspect of the sport. Wolff entered Formula 1 from the world of business when he joined Williams in 2009, so it is easy to forget that he had forged a fairly
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