Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton edged a close strategic battle with Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen to claim victory at the Spanish Grand Prix, working a two-stop strategy to recover a lead lost to the Dutchman at the race start as Red Bull tried to keep Verstappen’s tyres alive on a one-stop plan. At the race start, … Read more
DRIVERS 1 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull) 3 – Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes) TRACK INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Pedro de la Rosa) Q: Max, well done, what a lap. After Q2 we thought no one would break into the 16s. You nearly had it there, only three hundredths. How was your lap? … Read more
Lewis Hamilton beat Max Verstappen by just 0.036 seconds to make history as the first driver to reach 100 pole positions in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix. Verstappen finished ahead of Valtteri Bottas at the end of a tight session in which the top three drivers were covered by just 1300ths of a second. At … Read more
Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen topped the timesheet in final practice for the Spanish Grand Prix beating Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton by 0.235s with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. The one-hour session got off to a slow start, with just Alpine’s Fernando Alonso on track but eventually more cars appeared and Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez and Alfa Romeo’s … Read more
Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheet in second practice for the Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya beating Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas by over a tenth of a second as Max Verstappen finished in ninth place following an error during his qualifying simulation. Bottas, the morning’s fastest man, set the early pace in the one-hour afternoon session, … Read more
Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas set the fastest lap of the first practice session for this weekend’s FIA Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix, beating Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen by 0.033s, with Lewis Hamilton third in the other Mercedes. In the first part of the session, Lewis Hamilton initially led the way on hard tyres with a … Read more
DRIVERS 1 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing) 3 – Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes) TRACK INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Paul Di Resta) Q: Max, started third, finished second, you had a great jump on Lewis at the restart, you got in front but then you made a small mistake in Turn 14. … Read more
Lewis Hamilton took his second consecutive Portuguese Grand Prix victory after passing both Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas in a close battle at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve. Verstappen took second place ahead of Bottas but had to cede the point for fastest lap to the Finn after exceeding track limits during a last lap … Read more
Valtteri Bottas beat Lewis Hamilton by just seven thousandths of a second to claim the 17th pole position of his career, as Mercedes locked out the front row of the grid for the 2021 FIA Formula 1 Portuguese Grand Prix. Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen finished third ahead of team-mate Sergio Pérez. In the opening stages … Read more
Valtteri claimed the17th pole position of his career and first of the season. Lewis was 0.007s behind in P2 to complete the lockout. Both drivers will start tomorrow on the Medium compound tyre, as will the two Red Bulls in the second row. Today marks the 75th front row lockout for the Mercedes F1 Team in the … Read more