The Red Bull driver was crowned F1 world champion for the first time on Sunday after a last-lap overtake on title rival Lewis Hamilton to win the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. It means Verstappen now has the opportunity to race with #1 on his car next season, which is reserved for the reigning world champion […]
While Todt praised “all those who made it possible”, many fans could not hide their anger at what they felt had been a shambolic running of the final F1 race of the season. Pouring through the messages, accusations of the FIA having rigged the event, manipulated its own rules and put the desire for […]
The FIA stewards have confirmed that Mercedes’ protest over the restart of the Formula 1 title decider in Abu Dhabi has not been upheld. Mercedes lodged two protests with the FIA following the controversial end to the race at the Yas Marina Circuit, including one over the restart of the race with one lap remaining. […]
Mercedes filed two protests with the FIA stewards at the Yas Marina Circuit over the race restart after Max Verstappen passed Lewis Hamilton on the final lap of the race to win the world championship. The stewards dismissed both protests, including one of the resumption of the race with one lap remaining, but Mercedes has […]
Max Verstappen clinched the F1 world championship title at the Yas Marina circuit after race director Michael Masi elected to restart the race with one lap to go following a brief safety car period triggered by a crash from Williams’ Nicholas Latifi. The Red Bull driver had been switched on to soft tyres for the […]
After the FIA stewards initially rejected Mercedes’ protest over Max Verstappen illegally overtaking behind the safety car, a second protest was also dismissed about the restart from the late safety car period. Here’s the full FIA verdict: Protest filed by Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team against the Classification established at the end of the Competition Stewards […]
Bottas qualified sixth for the 2021 season finale at Yas Marina, lapping over nine-tenths of a second off pole-sitter Verstappen of Red Bull, who will start side-by-side with Hamilton on the front row of the grid. Hamilton and Verstappen are tied on points going into the final race, while Mercedes leads Red Bull by 28 […]
Ahead of Sunday’s race, Leclerc lies in fifth place on 158 points, ahead of Lando Norris on 154 and Sainz on 149.5. Norris gave himself a good shot at jumping Leclerc by qualifying third at Yas Marina, while Sainz will start fifth, and Leclerc seventh. Although he has a two-place advantage on his teammate, Sainz […]
The news was contained in a document issued by F1 as an update on future developments within the organisation. It indicated that Brawn, who turned 67 last month, was “expected” to leave his role, and it’s understood that the exact timing of his departure has not yet been finalised. Following his departure from Mercedes at […]
Before he dominated Q3 to take pole at the Yas Marina track ahead of Lewis Hamilton, Verstappen had initially tried to get through Q2 on the mediums – the same compound his rival ran at that stage to take for the start of Sunday’s race. But after posting a time that would have got him […]