Mercedes AMG F1 boss Toto Wolff and non-executive chairman Niki Lauda have renewed their allegiance to Mercedes-Benz until the end of 2020. The lucrative new deals by both men are hardly a surprise while their duration corresponds to Mercedes’ own commitment to Formula 1. Also, both men retain their ownership of the Mercedes AMG F1…
Lewis Hamilton won a delayed Brazilian Grand Prix in wet conditions to take the championship battle down to the final race of the season. Hamilton led home team-mate Nico Rosberg by 11.4 seconds to secure a vital victory, in a race which saw two red flag stoppages, numerous crashes and a sensational performance from Max Verstappen….
Sergio Perez says his final 36-lap stint on the soft Pirelli tyre at last Sunday’s Singapore Grand prix was “one of my best performances in Formula One”, with the Mexican’s eighth-place finish moving Force India back ahead of Williams in the Constructors’ standings. Having started on the ultrasoft, Perez switched to the hardest compound available at…
A selection of the best images from qualifying day at the Singapore Grand Prix, with Nico Rosberg taking pole position at Marina Bay.
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has admitted that the advantage his team has enjoyed over the rest of the Formula One grid in recent years has been cut back in 2016, despite the team clinching their third consecutive world championship title with four races to spare. After Nico Rosberg won the Japanese Grand Prix with team…
Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg said that he felt finishing the Malaysian Grand Prix in the points in eighth place was a good result, although he was sure he could have finished better if he hadn’t been caught up in the fracas at turn 1 at the start of the race. “Finishing eighth is a reasonable…
Kevin Magnussen says he has shown his loyalty to Renault by agreeing to extend a deadline on his contract option by two weeks. The Dane is waiting to learn if Renault will retain him for 2017, with the team weighing up its options with regards to its future driver line-up. Having said he doesn’t understand…
Lewis Hamilton shrugged off the Ferrari threat to Mercedes despite being beaten by Sebastian Vettel during Friday practice in Mexico. Vettel set the pace in FP2, edging out Hamilton by 0.004s as the triple world champion had three attempts at beating Vettel’s time. Despite the pace shown by Ferrari, Hamilton does not believe the Scuderia…
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff and his wife, former Williams F1 test driver Susie Wolff, have confirmed that they are expecting their first child together. “Yes, it’s true, it’s a childhood wish,” Toto told the Bild newspaper this week. “We are expecting our first child. “Susie, my wife, is pregnant. Our child will be born in…
Israel’s escalated bombing of the Gaza Strip was evidenced on Tuesday by airstrikes that targeted two high-rise buildings in Gaza City that left one flattened completely and the other badly damaged. According to the Associated Press it is the fifth high-rise targeted and destroyed in the last several days as a new wave of bombing…