Max Verstappen keeps winning but his rivals keep changing on July 12, 2023LONDON: Max Verstappen is running away with the Formula One championship to such an extent that the Red Bull driver no longer seems sure who his main rival is. Team mate Sergio Perez is mathematically closest, and fighting with the same equipment, but the Mexican is already a whopping 99 points behind the double world […]
Benie Ecclestone sees little hope for Formula One in 2020 on March 29, 2020LONDON: Bernie Ecclestone holds little hope of Formula One racing this season due to the coronavirus pandemic and said he would have declared it game over already. The 89-year-old former F1 supremo, speaking to Reuters from the seclusion of his locked-down farm in Brazil, also saw no chance of the British Grand Prix going ahead […]
Ferrari can show the resurgence is real in Russia on September 26, 2019Formula One champions Mercedes have won every Russian Grand Prix since the first at Sochi’s Olympic Park in 2014 but that could all change on Sunday. Ferrari are on a roll at present with Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel racking up three wins in a row between them and a fourth will really have the […]
Dominant Lewis Hamilton is setting a record pace on June 25, 2019Lewis Hamilton could overtake Michael Schumacher’s record haul of 91 wins by the end of the season, however surreal that may sound. The Mercedes driver is accelerating towards a sixth title with an air of inevitability after Sunday’s French Grand Prix took his tally to 79 career wins with six victories in eight races so […]
Mercedes can take sequence of success into double figures on June 20, 2019Formula One champions Mercedes can stretch their unbeaten run into double figures in France on Sunday while rivals Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel still chafe at being denied victory in Canada two weeks ago. Lewis Hamilton, winner last year at Le Castellet’s Paul Ricard circuit from pole position, has won five races this season while Finnish […]
As ever, expect the unexpected in Formula One on April 2, 2019Formula One has been criticised for being altogether too predictable in the past but not so far this season, even if Lewis Hamilton returned to the top of the podium in Bahrain on Sunday. With two surprise winners in two races, and those cast in allegedly supporting roles acting more like leading men, it has […]
Rights groups urge F1 and FIA to take a stance in Bahrain on March 28, 2019Human rights groups called on Wednesday for Formula One and its governing body, the FIA, to seek the immediate release of a jailed female activist and blogger ahead of this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) were among 15 signatories to a letter […]
Vettel’s fifth Ferrari season draws Schumacher comparisons on March 7, 2019Every Ferrari driver feels a heavy burden of expectation but the pressure is mounting more than ever on Sebastian Vettel as the German enters his fifth season with Formula One’s most successful and glamorous team. The comparisons with great compatriot Michael Schumacher, who had to wait until his fifth year at Maranello in 2000 before […]
Schumacher in Formula One’s thoughts as stricken great turns 50 on December 28, 2018LONDON: Michael Schumacher is in Formula One’s thoughts as the seven times world champion approaches his 50th birthday, five years on from the near-fatal skiing accident that has left the Ferrari great fighting brain injuries behind a wall of secrecy. The German, still the sport’s most successful driver in terms of wins (91) and titles, […]
Hamilton and Mercedes shift from fourth to fifth on December 19, 2018LONDON: Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes won their fifth Formula One championships in 2018 but, even if nothing actually changed at the top, the season at least added an exciting twist to the same old story. Yes, the top three – the ‘Silver Arrows’ along with Ferrari and Red Bull – again won all the races, […]