Former world champion Jenson Button has joined Williams in the role of senior advisor as the flagging Formula One team look to revive their fortunes on the track. Once a Grand Prix powerhouse, British outfit Williams have finished bottom of the F1 constructors’ championship for the past three seasons. Team founder Frank Williams sold Williams to US Read more…
The four-time world champion was informed by the team that they would not be renewing his contract before the start of the 2020 F1 season, with the German subsequently agreeing to join Aston Martin. Asked whether he understands why Mattia Binotto and Ferrari decided to let him leave, Vettel said that looking Read more…
Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto is confident his star racer Charles Leclerc could give Lewis Hamilton a tough challenge. With Sebastian Vettel out of the picture, Binotto is leaning on Leclerc to put Scuderia Ferrari back on top. In a recent interview with Grandprix247, Binotto even boasted that the 23-year-old is a driver who Read more…
Lewis Hamilton’s plan to boost his financial and influential power at Mercedes has been “shattered”. That is the view of former F1 driver Christijan Albers, as seven time world champion Hamilton finally breaks his 2021 silence on his long-delayed new contract for this year. Albers told De Telegraaf that he Read more…
Max Verstappen had to make a big change to his mindset in order to deal with constantly losing to Lewis Hamilton. The two F1 stars have been rivals at the front of the grid for the last few years but it is Mercedes’ Hamilton who usually comes out on top. Read more…
Good news for the family and friends of Alessandro Zanardi: More than six months after his terrible handbike accident, he can talk again. The former Formula 1 driver is still in the hospital, and his situation did not look good for a long time. Nevertheless, Zanardi once again shows that he is Read more…
Neat Burger, a vegan restaurant backed by seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton, has expanded its menu. The London-based chain now offers fish-free burgers. Similar to McDonald’s popular Filet-O-Fish, the aptly named Filet-no-Fish burger features sustainably-sourced jackfruit in a crispy breadcrumb coating. Just like the fast-food classic, Neat Burger serves Read more…
In Formula 1, major strategic decisions between potential partners are typically signed and sealed at least a year in advance, so current rumors of a possible tie-up between Sauber and Renault from 2022 are not only credible, they also make sense. According to sources close to the Swiss outfit, Alfa Read more…
With Mick Schumacher, a familiar name returns to Formula 1, after Max Verstappen had previously ensured the return of his family name. It is therefore remarkable that exactly these two names are returning to the sport. Uncle Michael Jos Verstappen and Michael Schumacher were teammates at Benetton in 1994, when Schumacher would drive to the world title. Read more…
Toto Wolff has referred to F1’s rules changes for 2022 as an “earthquake” as he plots how to continue Mercedes’ dominance. Mercedes have won the constructors’ World Championship for the last seven years, with the biggest threat to the extension of that sequence looking to be the major rewrite of Read more…