Sainz replaced Sebastian Vettel at Ferrari on a two-year deal for this season, and enjoyed his strongest F1 campaign to date, scoring four podiums en route to fifth place in the drivers’ championship.Sainz managed to outscore Charles Leclerc in their first year as team-mates, helping Ferrari to secure third place Read more
In the wake of the controversy over the safety car restart at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that has left Hamilton disillusioned with the sport, he and his team boss Toto Wolff elected to miss the FIA end-of-season gathering in Paris on Thursday night.Hamilton’s absence, as runner-up in the drivers’ Read more
McLaren rekindled its famed partnership with Mercedes for the 2020 season, having previously enjoyed works support from the German manufacturer from 1995 for 2014.While McLaren slipped to fourth place in the constructors’ standings behind Ferrari, the team enjoyed a strong season as it scored 73 more points and picked up Read more
Hamilton was on course to take an eighth F1 drivers’ title until the final five laps of the Yas Marina climax to a hotly contested 2021 season, which tipped the race on its head and allowed Max Verstappen to clinch his maiden title.Although Mercedes protested the results and appealed the Read more
Testing with these cars has been ongoing throughout 2021 but this is the first time all of them have been used together, allowing for a much larger pool of data to be collected that can be used by the tyre supplier and the teams.To qualify as a ‘mule’ car, teams Read more
If one of them could get a top speed edge over the other, then that could prove decisive in holding the advantage over the course of the grand prix itself.It was no surprise, therefore, that Mercedes stuck at the Yas Marina circuit with the low-downforce rear wing arrangement that it Read more
It feels as though every race in the last year has thrust Hamilton on the path to breaking a new F1 record, largely those once-unbelievable records set by Michael Schumacher.We have also included the records Hamilton shares with another driver, some of which he could hold alone in the next Read more
Max Verstappen clinched the F1 world championship title at the Yas Marina circuit after race director Michael Masi elected to restart the race with one lap to go following a brief safety car period triggered by a crash from Williams’ Nicholas Latifi.The Red Bull driver had been switched on to Read more
Before he dominated Q3 to take pole at the Yas Marina track ahead of Lewis Hamilton, Verstappen had initially tried to get through Q2 on the mediums – the same compound his rival ran at that stage to take for the start of Sunday’s race.But after posting a time that Read more
While their respective teams and drivers have gone wheel-to-wheel, Wolff and Horner have fired shots at each other throughout the season. Amid flexi-wing sagas, rights to review, accident reconstructions and threats to protest, it has fuelled what Horner called in the tense Qatar press conference “by far the most intense Read more