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FIA unmoved as Horner calls Mercedes’ lobbying of stewards “unacceptable”
2021 British Grand Prix
Posted onRed Bull’s Christian Horner says the stewards should be “locked away” from team principals during races but FIA race director Michael Masi disagrees.
Time lost behind Norris cost Mercedes chance to race Verstappen – Wolff
2021 Austrian Grand Prix
Posted onMercedes team principal Toto Wolff says their race pace was much better in the second round at the Red Bull Ring than the first.
Mercedes not shocked by deficit to Red Bull on softest tyres
2021 Austrian Grand Prix
Posted onMercedes team principal Toto Wolff has put his team’s qualifying defeat to Red Bull down to not making the most of Pirelli’s C5 compound tyre
Mercedes to choose Hamilton’s team mate “in the summer” – Wolff
2021 Austrian Grand Prix
Posted onMercedes intend to choose Lewis Hamilton’s team mate for 2022 during the summer, team principal Toto Wolff has confirmed.
Mercedes bringing upgrade to W12 for next race
2021 Austrian Grand Prix
Posted onMercedes will bring an upgrade to its W12 for the next round of the championship at Silverstone, team principal Toto Wolff has confirmed.
Mercedes try “extreme” fixes and run different rear wings again to unlock Baku pace
2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Posted onMercedes had to try some “extreme things” with their setup to unlock the performance from their W12 after the team struggled in practice.
F1 will consider adopting “intelligent” IndyCar rule in wake of Leclerc crash
2021 F1 season
Posted onFormula 1 race director Michael Masi says an IndyCar-style rule penalising drivers for disrupting qualifying sessions could be introduced to the world championship.
‘Lewis and Valtteri are team mates to me as Nicholas is’ says Russell after ‘private’ Wolff talks
2021 Portuguese Grand Prix
Posted onGeorge Russell will consider Mercedes’ drivers as much his team mates as fellow Williams driver Nicholas Latifi when racing against them in future, following his Imola crash with Valtteri Bottas.
Bottas ‘left Russell nowhere to go’ in crash – Brawn
2021 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix
Posted onFormula 1 motorsport director Ross Brawn has sided with George Russell over his spectacular race-ending collision with Valtteri Bottas.
“When I race, I have respect”: Bottas rejects Russell’s claim he caused crash
2021 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix
Posted onValtteri Bottas rejected George Russell’s insistence he was to blame for their crash in the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix.
Wolff says the racing gods favoured Mercedes after narrow win over Red Bull
2021 Bahrain Grand Prix
Posted onMercedes team principal Toto Wolff says Red Bull showed they will be “extremely difficult to beat” during 2021 after Lewis Hamilton’s narrow win in Bahrain.
Hamilton ruing lost downforce as Red Bull outpace Mercedes in practice
2021 Bahrain Grand Prix
Posted onLewis Hamilton was third in Friday practice at the Bahrain GP, and says his car has the same rear-end instability as in pre-season testing
Losing long-serving staff to meet budget cap was painful, says Horner
2021 Bahrain Grand Prix
Posted onChristian Horner has revealed F1’s new budget cap led to job losses among long-serving staff at Red Bull’s Milton Keynes base.
Hamilton raised human rights concerns with Bahraini officials and UK ambassador
2021 Bahrain Grand Prix
Posted onLewis Hamilton has met with Britain’s ambassador to Bahrain to raise concerns over the human rights situation in the country.
Mercedes announce March launch for new ‘W12 E Performance’ F1 car
2021 F1 Season
Posted onMercedes will launch their new Formula 1 car on March 2nd. However the team is yet to officially confirm Lewis Hamilton will continue to drive for them.
Bottas blocked out social media and news coverage of Sakhir GP
2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Posted onValtteri Bottas says he hasn’t “looked at a single headline or a single news article or social media” since his disappointing Sakhir GP performance.
New Hamilton deal unlikely to be agreed before end of season – Wolff
2020 F1 Season
Posted onLewis Hamilton is unlikely to agree a new contract with Mercedes before the end of the season, despite clinching the world championship at the previous race, says team principal Toto Wolff.
Hamilton’s 2016 title defeat only “annoyed” him, didn’t change him – Wolff
2020 Turkish Grand Prix
Posted onLewis Hamilton’s relentless pursuit of self-improvement is what sets him apart from other drivers, his Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has said.
Hamilton wants GPDA to “work closely with F1” on driver salary cap
2020 F1 season
Posted onLewis Hamilton says the possible introduction of a cap on drivers’ salaries is a matter the Grand Prix Drivers Association should raise with Formula 1.