Lewis Hamilton Reveals Niki Lauda’s Embarrassing Moment That Left Toto Wolff Laughing

Lewis Hamilton Reveals Niki Lauda’s Embarrassing Moment That Left Toto Wolff Laughing

Niki Lauda was one of the most crucial elements in making Mercedes the dominant team that they were in the mid-2010s. Toto Wolff recently admitted to missing Lauda during the tough times that Mercedes is facing at the moment. Former F1 driver Christian Danner came out to suggest that the Mercedes CEO is lost without […]

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Charles Leclerc Receives Mixed Lewis Hamilton Message as Former Teammate Drops Subtle Warning About 7X Champ

Charles Leclerc Receives Mixed Lewis Hamilton Message as Former Teammate Drops Subtle Warning About 7X Champ

In 2024, Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc’s soon-to-be Ferrari partnership has gained more buzz than any current pairing. Every analyst and pundit feels the need to give their 2 cents on the game-changing signing by Frederic Vasseur. Where most of them reach a consensus is agreeing that Leclerc might be forced to play second fiddle […]

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Tearful Vettel ‘finishing Senna’s job’ with Austrian flag tribute at F1 Imola

This month marked the 30-year anniversary of Senna’s fatal accident at Imola on 1 May 1994, which came the day after Austrian Ratzenberger lost his life in a crash.The death of Ratzenberger, which itself followed a serious practice accident for Senna’s compatriot Rubens Barrichello, shook the Williams driver to the core at the time.In the wreckage of Senna’s crashed car, marshals found an unfurled …Keep reading
Max Verstappen Steals Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari Attention, as Rude Gesture Wins Over Tifosi Hearts

Max Verstappen Steals Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari Attention, as Rude Gesture Wins Over Tifosi Hearts

Imola was Lewis Hamilton’s first Italian race after the announcement of his Ferrari move for 2025. And people treated the 7X champ like a god, literally, as they made posters of Hamilton, Leclerc, and Vasseur as Jesus, Mary, and the Pope. However, just like the 2021 championship, Max Verstappen snatched all of Hamilton’s Tifosi attention […]

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10 things we learned at the 2024 F1 Imola Grand Prix

Formula 1 headed back to Imola after the 2023 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix was cancelled due to flooding in the Italian region. This time, the sporting contest went ahead in sunshine throughout.The race was awfully dull, until Max Verstappen’s struggles aboard his Red Bull and Lando Norris’s hard tyre brilliance in his McLaren combined to produce a thrilling late coda. That again enlivened a lead …Keep reading

Why Norris fell away and then “spiralled” back at Verstappen

In the opening phase of the race, it was Verstappen who had the edge as, after holding the advantage at the start, he was steadily able to eke out a gap on the medium tyres to be more than six seconds clear up until the first round of stops.Things did not seem to change much as drivers switched to the hard, as Norris, who briefly lost a bit of time getting past Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, did not …Keep reading
Helmut Marko Picks His Favorites for Monaco, and It’s Not Max Verstappen or Lando Norris

Helmut Marko Picks His Favorites for Monaco, and It’s Not Max Verstappen or Lando Norris

Red Bull finally showed cracks in their dominant front at the Emilia Romagna GP. Sergio Perez heavily faltered in qualifying with a Q2 knockout, and Max Verstappen nearly lost as Lando Norris maximized McLaren’s latest upgrades. This duel in the concluding stages of the race established McLaren as the second-place contender in 2024, leapfrogging Ferrari. […]

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Why Perez thought P8 was “the best we could get” at F1 Imola GP

The Mexican had failed to make the top 10 in qualifying, instead being knocked out in Q2 with a lap time 0.015s slower than Daniel Ricciardo’s on his RB.Perez started the race on hard tyres in a bid to make the most of any timely safety car intervention, virtual or otherwise, which ultimately failed to materialise during an uninterrupted race.But Perez did manage to outperform both RB cars and …Keep reading

Which F1 driver has led the world championship the longest? 

While some drivers take the title long before the final round – recently Max Verstappen took both the 2022 and 2023 titles with several races left to go – others can sit at the top of the table but still never claim the crown. Valtteri Bottas is one of those unfortunate drivers, having led the championship for just 24 days in 2019 before the season was eventually won by Lewis Hamilton.   …Keep reading