Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has backed Lewis Hamilton to exact swift revenge at Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix after a chastening defeat in Formula One’s season opener in Australia. Sebastian Vettel’s comprehensive victory for Ferrari has put Mercedes on red alert ahead of the Shanghai race weekend but Wolff insists Hamilton has the steel to … Read more
Actor David Tennant is suing the owners of the defunct News of the World over alleged phone hacking. His lawyers issued a claim for compensation at the High Court in London on Thursday. Law firm Collyer Bristow said it was representing nine people in total, including former Formula One driver Eddie Irvine. They said other … Read more
Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes are vowing to come back hard in China after being ambushed by resurgent Ferrari in the Formula One season-opener in Australia. The German outfit, who have ruled the sport for the last three years, got a rude awakening in the first race of the new season when Sebastian Vettel beat Hamilton by … Read more
Daniel Ricciardo’s trademark smile vanished as he endured a hellish Australian Grand Prix with a weekend-long spell of wretched luck that left his hopes in tatters in Melbourne on Sunday. It just went from bad to worse for the amiable Red Bull driver who crashed in qualifying, copped a grid penalty, started the race from … Read more
Sebastian Vettel out-manoeuvred Lewis Hamilton and the world champion Mercedes team with a stunning victory in the season-opening Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne on Sunday. Vettel won by almost 10 seconds from Hamilton and Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in a commanding victory of tactics and speed around the Albert Street circuit. It was … Read more
The waiting is almost over for Formula One fans – a new season is upon us. But when the cars line up on the grid for Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix there will an added sense of expectation in Finland with homegrown heroes Kimi Raikkonen and Valtteri Bottas expected to be in title contention this year. … Read more
Daniel Ricciardo’s Australian Grand Prix hopes have been dealt another blow with confirmation of a five-place grid penalty for Sunday’s season-opening race in Melbourne. Ricciardo slammed into the barrier during qualifying on Saturday and his Red Bull RB13 car suffered rear end damage and prompted the team to change the gearbox. Teams need to run … Read more
Lewis Hamilton won a tight battle for pole position between Mercedes and Ferrari at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Briton Hamilton took pole position by 0.268 seconds as Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel joined him on the front row. The German pipped Hamilton’s team-mate Valtteri Bottas by just 0.025secs as the new era of faster, more demanding … Read more
Home hero Daniel Ricciardo was crestfallen after a costly error led to a crash in the final frenetic stages of qualifying Saturday to push him down the grid for the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. Australia’s big hope was trying to post a quicker time in the final Q3 stage when he lost control of … Read more
Triple world champion Lewis Hamilton will start off the pole in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix after winning qualifying on Saturday. Hamilton in a Mercedes clocked a record lap of one minute 22.188 seconds to take his 62nd career pole and sixth in Australia into Sunday’s race in Melbourne. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel was second with … Read more
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel trumped Mercedes duo Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton in practice ahead of Saturday’s qualifying for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix. Vettel unleashed a best lap of one minute 23.380 seconds to finish top of the timesheets in FP3 in the final hit-out before qualifying to decide the grid positions for Sunday’s … Read more
Pascal Wehrlein withdrew Saturday from the Sauber team for this weekend’s season-opening Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne citing a back problem. The German said he did not feel fit enough for a complete race distance as he recovers from a pre-season crash in January which forced him to miss some testing at Barcelona. … Read more
Lewis Hamilton said he was surprised how good his Mercedes felt during Friday’s practice at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Hamilton was 0.547 seconds clear of the field after a dominant performance and looks a strong favourite this weekend. “I am on it and I plan to keep it that way, Hamilton said. “It is … Read more
Team principals said Friday former powerbroker Bernie Ecclestone still had a role to play in Formula One following the high-profile takeover of the sport by Liberty Media. Ecclestone’s time as the colourful ringmaster of Formula One was effectively finished in January when US-based Liberty Media completed its takeover of motorsport’s most prestigious brand in a … Read more
Lewis Hamilton laid down a marker as he led a Mercedes one-two in the new Formula One season’s first free practice at the Australian Grand Prix on Friday. The triple world champion outstripped his new team-mate Valtteri Bottas by the large margin of 0.583 seconds with his fastest lap of 1:24.220 at Albert Park. Finland’s … Read more
Lewis Hamilton has insisted Ferrari start the 2017 Formula 1 season as favourites. Hamilton’s Mercedes team have won three successive world championship doubles since 2014 but were consistently outpaced by the Scuderia in winter testing following the sport’s rules refresh. “Ferrari are the quickest at the moment, they’re definitely the favourites,” said Hamilton ahead of … Read more
Lewis Hamilton will look to put his stamp on the new Formula One season at this week’s Australian Grand Prix, as he seeks to regain the world title following the shock retirement of reigning champion Nico Rosberg. Ten years after his F1 debut at Albert Park, Hamilton arrives at the downtown circuit as the leading … Read more
John Surtees, a Formula One great who won the 1964 championship with Ferrari and remains the only man to win world titles on two wheels and four, died on Friday at the age of 83, his family said in a statement. The Briton won his four 500cc and three 350cc motorcycling world titles with Italian … Read more
Formula One hasn’t had a female driver on the starting grid in over 40 years, but Tatiana Calderon is hoping to end that long wait. The Colombian has joined Sauber as a development driver for 2017, and the team aims to provide her with the tools to fulfill her potential. “I look forward to working … Read more
Mercedes and Ferrari had impressive starts to pre-season testing as Red Bull and McLaren hit trouble. Lewis Hamilton was fastest as Mercedes completed 152 laps with both their drivers at Circuit de Catalunya. Hamilton was 0.113 seconds faster than Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari, which also ran reliably and used the slower medium tyre with the Mercedes … Read more