Bottas and Russell clashed at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix when the Williams driver tried to take ninth off the Finn. His overtake went horribly wrong as he drew alongside the Mercedes, touched a damp spot and promptly crashed into Bottas. Both drivers went off at high speeds, their cars wrecked but thankfully neither was…
Toto Wolff, the Mercedes team boss, is actually billionaire Lawrence Stroll’s “lap dog”. That is the wild claim of former F1 team boss Colin Kolles, who admits he fell out with his Austrian friend Wolff some years ago. “Mr Wolff was a business partner of mine – I brought him into Formula 1, even if…
George Russell has changed his view on Sunday’s crash with Valtteri Bottas at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, conceding that the Finnish driver was “probably not” to blame for their incident. The pair collided at almost 200 mph heading into the Tamburello chicane midway through a dramatic race at Imola, with Russell in particular appearing…
Pramac Ducati MotoGP rider Jorge Martin’s surgery on fractures suffered in a violent crash during the Portuguese Grand Prix has been postponed and a Jerez return is now in doubt. The rookie crashed at Turn 7 in the latter stages of Saturday’s FP3 session at the Algarve track, the Spaniard needing to be stretchered off…
Frustrations showed as Sebastian Vettel called out the FIA’s professionalism after the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix on Sunday. Delays saw the stewards fail to issue the Aston Martin driver with a penalty for a pre-race rules violation until 20 minutes into the race. The German driver was awarded the mandatory 10-second stop-go penalty for not…
FIA Race Director Michael Masi has explained why Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton wasn’t investigated for reversing back onto the track after he slid off the circuit. Hamilton had been pushing hard to catch Red Bull’s Max Verstappen midway through the Emilia Romagna GP, but slid off the track at Tosa while lapping another car. Clouting the…
Lewis Hamilton made a mistake halfway through the race that cost him a lot of time. With the red flag raised by the crash of George Russell and Valtteri Bottas, Hamilton suddenly had a chance of a podium again. A race to catch up followed and the world champion enjoyed it. Hamilton is honest and…
Plans to introduce ‘Sprint Qualifying’ races this year are to go ahead after an agreement was reached to allow teams to exceed the budget cap to pay for crash damage. Formula 1 teams are limited to a maximum expenditure of $145 million on their programmes this year under the sport’s new Financial Regulations. This limit…
A furious George Russell asked Valtteri Bottas if he was trying to kill them both following their high-speed collision in the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. But the Mercedes driver rejected Russell’s criticism of his driving, insisting the collision was “completely his fault”.The pair collided on the approach to Tamburello, the fastest point on the circuit, causing…
John Hunter Nemechek earned his second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win in the last four races and had to hold off his boss Kyle Busch to do so Saturday afternoon. Nemechek scored the victory by a slim .307-seconds over Busch in the ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway. Nemechek, 23, led a race best 114…
Max Verstappen took an ultimately commanding victory in a wild Emilia Romagna Grand Prix interrupted by a massive crash between Valtteri Bottas and George Russell, and in which Lewis Hamilton had to recover from ninth to second after a mistake. Verstappen had burst through from third on the grid to lead at the start, with…
Williams driver Nicholas Latifi is out of the Emilia Romagna GP after a tangle with Nikita Mazepin. The Canadian driver spun at turn 12, re-joined the track and went side by side up the hill towards the turn 14/15 chicane alongside Mazepin. The pair tangled which caused Latifi to spin and crash into the wall…
Fabio Quartararo dominated the Portuguese Grand Prix to claim a second straight victory, while Marc Marquez scored a solid seventh in his first race in nine months. Quartararo made a poor start from pole position as he slipped to sixth, while fast-starting championship leader Johann Zarco utilised Ducati’s hole-shot starting device to take the lead…
The weather seems to be an important factor in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix that is about to start. Dutch reporter Olav Mol explains to Ziggo Sport that there are showers over the circuit, but so far the rain has failed to materialise. The situation is being closely monitored by the F1 teams. “I think…
Miami will hold its first Grand Prix in 2022 after Formula 1 secured a 10-year deal for a race in the Florida city. The move is the culmination of years of work by F1’s owners Liberty Media, who wanted a race in a US “destination city” as they seek to grow the sport. The event…
Doha Grand Prix rookie podium finisher Jorge Martin will not race at this weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix, after suffering broken bones in a massive out-lap highside during this morning’s practice session at the Portimao circuit. The Pramac Ducati rider crashed as he exited the pits for the final time attack of the session hoping to…
