Six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has smashed the Monza track record to take pole position for the Italian Grand Prix with the fastest lap in Formula One history. The Mercedes driver produced a sensational lap of 1min 18.887sec – at an average speed of 264.362kph – on a sunny afternoon Read more…
Lewis Hamilton is the outstanding champion in modern Formula One because of his sportsmanship and his ability to motivate a team said departing head of Mercedes engine development Andy Cowell. The power-unit guru, who has worked with three-time champion Ayrton Senna, two-time champion Mika Hakkinen and seven-time champion Michael Schumacher, Read more…
Hamilton is out of contract with Mercedes at the end of this season and while it was thought earlier this year that a new deal would have been announced by now, there’s still no word. The Brit, though, isn’t at all fazed by the delay. Once again managing his own contract negotiations Read more…
Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton have something in common – the intensity of their self-criticism. That is the claim of Frederic Vasseur, who worked with both drivers in the past on their road to Formula 1. “Only with Lewis Hamilton have I seen as much self-criticism as I saw with Read more…
Lewis Hamilton says Ferrari have failed to deliver the goods for rival Sebastian Vettel and he’s backing the four-time F1 champion to put off retirement to seal a move to Racing Point. Vettel will leave the Italians this winter after they opted against extending his contract. The 33-year-old’s options have dwindled since his exit was announced, with Mercedes, Red Read more…
The Mercedes representative chosen to receive the Constructors’ trophy for Lewis Hamilton’s win in Sunday’s British Grand Prix was an unfamiliar face to many, but the young man bore a familiar name. Gilles Pironi is the Brackley squad’s reliability engineer and the son of the late Didier Pironi, a three-time Read more…
Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc finished behind race winner Lewis Hamilton at the British Grand Prix this afternoon and the pair agree that the six-time world champion cannot be stopped in the Championship hunt. Mercedes dominated all weekend as Hamilton started the race, which was help behind closed doors, on Read more…
Mercedes has the first queue for the Grand Prix of Great Britain in its hands. On Friday the German team seemed to be struggling with the high temperatures, but now that it was ten degrees colder, Mercedes turned out to be out of control. ”I think the engineers did a Read more…
Toto Wolff insists “everyone’s perspective” must be respected amid a spate of racial politics in Formula 1. As he pushes the Black Lives Matter agenda, Mercedes’ six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton on Sunday scolded Ferrari for staying silent. “You look at Ferrari, who have thousands of people working for them, Read more…
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix exposed the team’s ‘glass jaw’. The team laid down a marker to its rivals for the first race at the Red Bull Ring after topping every practice and qualifying session prior to Valtteri Bottas taking the win. But the race was far Read more…