Lewis Hamilton is still in the middle of negotiating his contract with Mercedes. The six-time world champion wants to enter 2021 with a higher salary, but a plan by the F1 organisation to better regulate drivers’ salaries is going to cost the Brit a lot. Hamilton currently earns some GBP 35 million Read more…
Formula 1 teams have reportedly agreed to introduce a $30m cap on drivers’ salaries from 2023, potentially imposing such a limitation for the first time in Grand Prix racing’s history. According to a report from Daily Mail F1 correspondent Jonathan McEvoy, teams were unanimous on the salary cap idea which was tabled Read more…
Hamilton’s victory at the Portuguese Grand Prix last Sunday set a single record for most Grand Prix wins, his 92nd career win over six-time F1 world champion Portimao. He equaled Schumacher’s record of seven titles, once again comparing the two superstars. Felipe Massa, an 11-time Grand Prix winner, has worked Read more…
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff jokingly suggested he would have to sell the factory to keep Lewis Hamilton after the Briton’s record 92nd career win in Portugal on Sunday. Hamilton is out of contract at the end of the year, by which time the 35-year-old is likely to have Read more…
Mercedes joked that Lewis Hamilton is on his way to Renault for the 2021 Formula 1 season, as their six-time world champion remains not under contract. The person behind the screen when it comes to the Mercedes Formula 1 Twitter account certainly has quite a few jokes to offer. Six-time world champion Lewis Read more…
Many F1 fans would love to see Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen paired together in the same team. But according to Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff, that won’t be happening any time soon, with Wolff saying that there was no opportunity currently to entice the Dutchman away from Red Bull, Read more…
LG Electronics (LG) announced that Six-Time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton has been signed to be the global ambassador for its LG SIGNATURE, the company’s premium home solutions brand. Hamilton will initially star in a new campaign to communicate the brand’s philosophy, “Art Inspires Technology, Technology Completes Art.” In Read more…
Lewis Hamilton has indicated that he does not like the criticism of ‘older drivers’, but Jackie Stewart does not want to know about it. The triple world champion did not mean it that way. Stewart returns In an earlier interview Jackie Stewart said that he has a lot of respect Read more…
Now that most people will be forced to sit at home again in the coming weeks, they can empathize a bit with the lives of F1 drivers over the past year. Because of the bubble that their teams are holding on to, they have been living in seclusion for more Read more…
Lewis Hamilton took victory at today’s Eifel Grand Prix after taking the lead from teammate Valtteri Bottas. As the Finn later retired, Max Verstappen ended up in second as Daniel Ricciardo secured Renault’s first podium of the year. When the lights went out, Hamilton made the better start and was Read more…