And while team boss Andreas Seidl joked on Sunday night about there being a ‘Hindsight WhatsApp group’, which could conclude it should have pitted Lando Norris straightaway for inters in the closing stages, the analysis will go much deeper than that. Digging into the crucial minutes of what turned an odds-on brilliant win for Norris […]
The young Briton looked on course to win his maiden F1 race from pole position at Sochi on Sunday, as he held off Lewis Hamilton behind him in the closing stages. But it all went wrong a few laps from home when a downpour arrived and Norris and his McLaren team left it too late […]
Sochi served up a Formula 1 race to savour on Sunday as both rain and records fell, delivering a dramatic finish that will live long in the memory. Lewis Hamilton became the first driver in F1 history to hit 100 grand prix wins, finally ending his wait to hit triple-digits. But it was not a […]
Remarkably, the Briton has now become the first driver to reach a century of world championship F1 wins at the 2021 Russian Grand Prix. It has taken him 281 races and a little over 14 years, during which time he has also scored 101 pole positions, 57 fastest laps and seven world titles. Now seemed […]
Verstappen had to start last at Sochi after his team elected to fit a fresh engine to his car. Although he made great progress in the early stages, his charge up the field was stalled when he suffered graining on the switch from hard to medium tyres for the second half of the race. PLUS: […]
Sainz scored his third podium of the season by finishing third at the Sochi Autodrom on Sunday, having led the early stages of the race before slipping behind Lando Norris. Sainz looked set to finish fourth before the late downpour allowed him to rise up to third place after a well-timed switch to intermediates, following […]
It’s taken Hamilton 281 races and is the latest in a remarkable series of milestones in the career of one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time. But how many of those wins can you remember? Here they all are, from the first success in Canada 14 years ago. If you want to see […]
Hamilton scored his 100th grand prix victory after capitalising on a late rain shower in Sochi to beat McLaren’s Lando Norris, switching to intermediates with three laps of the race remaining. Hamilton was initially unsure about the decision as the majority of the track was dry, and was seen passing pit entry and continuing for […]
Stroll careened into the back of Gasly’s AlphaTauri at Turn 8 as the rain began to fall, leaving the circuit desperately slippery for the drivers as they tried to persevere with their slick tyres. This turned Gasly into a full 360-degree spin, for which Stroll has now had 10 seconds added onto his total race […]
Norris was closing in on a maiden grand prix victory after controlling proceedings from pole position before a late rain shower turned the race on its head. Norris opted to stay out on slicks while the majority of other drivers came in for intermediates, only for the decision to backfire as the rain grew heavier. […]