It hasn’t been the season so far that the Mercedes F1 Team would’ve been hoping for, with a best result of third ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix. The eight-time defending constructors’ champions appeared to close the gap to both Ferrari and Red Bull Racing last weekend in Spain, however, this weekend at the Circuit
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has vehemently denied suggestions that he will ask Sir Lewis Hamilton to move aside for George Russell, or vice versa. Russell leads Hamilton 4-3 in the qualifying battle this year, and has scored two podiums to the seven-time champion’s one will out-performing him in all of the last six races.
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has affirmed that the bouncing he experienced during practice ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix is more down to the bumps on the road rather than any aerodynamic deficiencies on the Mercedes. There were concerns during FP1 when the 37-year-old reported an “incredible amount of bouncing” to his Mercedes team that the
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Sir Lewis Hamilton was considerably stronger at the 2022 Spanish Grand Prix; the Brit recovered from an opening lap collision to finish fifth at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Remarkably, Hamilton clawed his way back to fifth having been nineteenth place and thirty-six seconds behind the next car, by the end of the first lap. The
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Sir Lewis Hamilton is defiant in the face of his difficult start to the 2022 season, affirming that he will continue to push to turn his results around. Hamilton has now been out-performed in the last six races by George Russell as he finished eighth behind the fifth-placed 24-year-old, but he suffered more misfortune throughout
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff insists that Sir Lewis Hamilton’s misfortune in 2022 will eventually come to an end after his eighth-placed finish in Monaco. Hamilton has not enjoyed the best season so far in 2022, driving a W13 car that has been on the back foot since day one due to the issues caused
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes that race control did a fine job considering the circumstances that were conspiring against them at the Monaco Grand Prix. Torrential rain hit the circuit just before the race was set to get going on Sunday, leaving an enormous volume of standing water on the track, as well as
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has conceded that he does not believe his team can sustain power supply for all of their customers, so they may have to lose at least one of them. Currently, Mercedes manufacture power units for Aston Martin, McLaren and Williams as well as serving the works team, meaning that they
MoreLewis Hamilton finished where he started the Monaco Grand Prix, in eighth place. The seven-time World Champion had strong pace, however, was stuck behind Fernando Alonso for almost the entirety of it. The Alpine driver was running around three to five seconds a lap slower, bunching up the pack behind. Hamilton labelled this as “typical
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff laments the fact that the team are in a limbo between the front and the midfield currently. The Silver Arrows looked at risk of being swallowed up by the midfield fight in the opening few rounds of the season owing to their “porpoising” and pace problems, but they have looked
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