Sainz replaced Sebastian Vettel at Ferrari on a two-year deal for this season, and enjoyed his strongest F1 campaign to date, scoring four podiums en route to fifth place in the drivers’ championship. Sainz managed to outscore Charles Leclerc in their first year as team-mates, helping Ferrari to secure third place in the constructors’ championship […]
The Dutchman picked up his maiden F1 championship trophy at the FIA’s prize-giving gala in Paris on Thursday night, which came just days after his last-lap victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Verstappen’s current contract runs until the end of 2023, and he has said several times since his success at the weekend that […]
The two drivers have dominated the rankings over recent years, finishing as the top two every year since 2016. But this is the first time that Verstappen has emerged ahead. In what has become a long-standing tradition created by Autosport, each of the F1 team bosses were asked to pick their top 10 drivers of […]
McLaren rekindled its famed partnership with Mercedes for the 2020 season, having previously enjoyed works support from the German manufacturer from 1995 for 2014. While McLaren slipped to fourth place in the constructors’ standings behind Ferrari, the team enjoyed a strong season as it scored 73 more points and picked up its first win for […]
In the wake of the controversy over the safety car restart at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that has left Hamilton disillusioned with the sport, he and his team boss Toto Wolff elected to miss the FIA end-of-season gathering in Paris on Thursday night. Hamilton’s absence, as runner-up in the drivers’ championship, appears to be […]
Sulayem’s arrival at the helm of the FIA comes just days after F1 has found its image tarnished in the wake of the safety car restart that decided the world championship battle between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. The FIA World Motor Sport Council has already announced plans for a probe into the events of […]
Hamilton was left upset by the way that a late race safety car restart call in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix cost him the world championship title on the final lap in Abu Dhabi last weekend. His Mercedes team has said that the Briton has been left ‘disillusioned’ by the way things were handled, and […]
Amid an increased scrutiny over the governing body’s actions in the wake of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix safety car controversy, the FIA has found itself having to defend its corner over what happened at the weekend. And Mercedes in particular has been especially outspoken in believing that what took place through the decisions of […]
Hamilton was on course to take an eighth F1 drivers’ title until the final five laps of the Yas Marina climax to a hotly contested 2021 season, which tipped the race on its head and allowed Max Verstappen to clinch his maiden title. Although Mercedes protested the results and appealed the decision to throw that […]
Wolff remains angry about Masi’s handling of the safety car restart in the closing stages of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which opened the door for Max Verstappen to grab the victory he needed for the crown. The team believes that Masi’s choice to select which backmarkers could unlap themselves, as well as the timing […]