Laurent Mekies, the RB Formula 1 team boss, revealed that the team is hoping their driver Yuki Tsunoda will continue developing, showing that he could take a next step in 2024. Tsunoda joined the RB back in 2021, when the team was still called Scuderia AlphaTauri, and while he showed some flashes of speed, his early performance were erratic and marred
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Lewis Hamilton is driving his final Formula 1 season with Mercedes, a brand he has been associated with ever since he joined the top flight back in 2007. Hamilton's illustrious F1 career has been powered by Mercedes, until the end of the 2024 season that is. He was given his F1 break by Ron Dennis at Mercedes-powered McLaren in 2007, the
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Pierre Gasly is venturing into soccer, not as a player, but as an investor in Football Club de Versailles 78, a club from the Paris suburb playing in the French Championnat National aka third division. Gasly, who drives for the French Alpine F1 team, said: “I’m delighted to be joining FC Versailles because I’ve always wanted to get involved in professional
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At the first Australian Grand Prix he contested, local hero Oscar Piastri was a relatively unknown force in Formula 1, now a year later he returns to Melbourne as a star thanks to a stellar 2024 rookie season, this year expectations are high as are demands for his time Down Under. While fellow Australian Daniel Ricciardo wanes at VCARB, his shares
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Alan Jones has weighed in on the poor form of Daniel Ricciardo, suggesting his fellow Australian is past his best and urging him to raise his game and start beating his VCARB teammate Yuki Tsunoda. Ricciardo's inexplicable downfall is well told. Opting for the money offered, he ditched Red Bull to move to Renault and from then on his career and
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The FIA have issued a statement following reports that the Red Bull Racing complainant against Christian Horner has appealed the outcome of the investigation conducted by Red Bull GmbH. While the independent investigation conducted Red Bull GmbH has reached a conclusion that Horner has done nothing wrong, and as the complainant was suspended from her job at Red Bull Racing, the
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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff insists that
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Tiff Needell, a former Formula 1/racing driver and respected motoring journalist, has blasted F1 for focusing just on the money, denying new talent a chance while shifting the focus off real racing. While we genuinely try to see the F1 glass half full, there is no denying that there are some worrying signs on the direction the top tier of motorsport
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Former Formula 1 driver Mark Blundell believes Lewis Hamilton could be the key to help bring Ferrari back to winning form. Hamilton shocked the motorsport world earlier in the year with an announcement that he would be joining Scuderia Ferrari from the 2025 season onwards. The 39-year-old enjoyed unprecedented success with current team Mercedes, securing six of his seven Drivers' Championships with
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From its earliest days, the sport of Formula 1 was about one thing, and one thing only - speed, the pinnacle of the sport has always pushed the boundaries of what is physically possible. Whether it's breaking lap records or achieving new levels of performance and technology. Over the decades, it turned into a high-stakes global phenomenon, with tracks in exotic
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Former Formula 1 driver Mark Blundell believes Lewis Hamilton could be the key to help bring Ferrari back to winning form. Hamilton shocked the motorsport world earlier in the year with an announcement that he would be joining Scuderia Ferrari from the 2025 season onwards. The 39-year-old enjoyed unprecedented success with current team Mercedes, securing six of his seven Drivers' Championships with
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Tiff Needell, a former Formula 1/racing driver and respected motoring journalist, has blasted F1 for focusing just on the money, denying new talent a chance while shifting the focus off real racing. While we genuinely try to see the F1 glass half full, there is no denying that there are some worrying signs on the direction the top tier of motorsport
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Adrian Newey claims that the minor adjustments to the Red Bull RB20 are what has given the team the edge again in 2024. The Red Bull Chief Technical Officer has yet again produced a dominant car for the current campaign. Star driver Max Verstappen has won all the races so far, while teammate Sergio Perez has seen the chequered flag in
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FIA Formula 2 is the acknowledged Formula 1 feeder series in this day and age, prior to that, a decade ago GP2 Series was doing the business of producing world champions. While drivers such as Max Verstappen (sheer talent) and Lance Stroll (big money) skipped F2, the majority have used it as a rung to F1. Of the seven F2 Champions,
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Red Bull Racing have been in the headlines before even the 2024 Formula 1 season started, for reasons which are more negative than positive. The manner in which the situation at Red Bull Racing has unraveled in the past month or so has been nothing short of shocking; starting with the Christian Horner investigation with all its ramifications, followed by the
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George Russell is amused by fellow drivers calling his Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff to lobby for the seat that Lewis Hamilton will vacate when he makes his sensational defection to Ferrari for 2025. The seven-time F1 World Champion is ditching Mercedes, at the end of this season to don Red, after nearly two decades of being part of the
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James Vowles, now Williams Team Principal, revealed that during his time at Mercedes, he created a document which governed how Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg behaved with each other. Hamilton and Rosberg, friends in their junior racing careers, turned into enemies during the time in which they shared the Mercedes garage between 2013 and 2016. The relationship totally broke down in 2016
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The Red Bull Formula 1 employee who accused team boss Christian Horner of inappropriate behavior has lodged an appeal after her complaint was dismissed, British media reported on Friday. The move is likely to keep the subject as a major talking point in F1 and continue to cast a shadow over the season. The unidentified woman was suspended last week after an
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Guenther Steiner would give British teenager Oliver Bearman a race seat on the Formula 1 grid for 2025 were he still a Team Principal, while acknowledging he may have spent too long at Haas who fired him before the start of this season Ferrari-powered Haas are the most likely destination for reserve Bearman who finished P7 on his F1 debut as
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Tiff Needell has stormed in where few fear to tread, calling it as many see it with regards to female drivers making it into Formula 1 As powers that be try and flog the sexist, women-only championship to fans by overhyping the series way beyond what it deserves in this quest for a female driver to make it onto the F1
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Lando Norris is not fully satisfied with McLaren's efforts over the past winter to fix some problems in their Formula 1 car's DNA. While McLaren finished the 2023 F1 season with the second fastest car behind Red Bull, the start of their 2024 campaign has been solid but far from impressive. Following a major mid-season upgrade, McLaren put a painful start of
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Oliver Bearman revealed that he received a good luck message from quadruple Formula 1 Champion Sebastian Vettel, a favorite among several other messages. Bearman has been the talk of the F1 community, pundits and fans, since his impressive debut at the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, deputizing for the ill Carlos Sainz after a last minute call. The young Briton was thrown
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Toto Wolff appears to relish taking swipes at Red Bull and their beleaguered Team Principal Christian Horner, the Mercedes boss not shy to fuel Formula 1's most explosive story. A civil war at Red Bull has been averted for now it seems, after a month in which Horner has been in the firing line for a
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The sporting and gaming sector is going through a profound transformation, fundamentally the entertainment landscape. This evolution was stimulated by technological developments and the variety of consumer tastes, amalgamating the excitement of live sports such as Formula 1 with the immersive, interactive experiences provided by online games. This article for. the benefit of our Formula 1 readers and F1 fans. explores how
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High-performance cars are mesmerising, keeping your eyes glued on them until they disappear in the corner. Now imagine watching a fleet of high-performance cars race. It’s an arcade of the best-looking cars being driven by the most talented drivers in the world. It’s the Formula One sports event, which is becoming increasingly popular today. The event reached 1.55 billion views in 2021.
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