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Gemma Cockrell If you aren’t familiar with Dutch racing driver Nyck de Vries, then now’s the time. He won the Formula 2 championship in 2019, and was more recently crowned the 2020-2021 Formula E world champion. However, with his Mercedes-EQ Team announcing that they will be withdrawing from the...
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Gemma Cockrell The Formula 1 grid for the 2021 season is (finally) complete. Lewis Hamilton has signed his contract with Mercedes, and all twenty Formula 1 seats are filled. Now seems like the perfect time to take a look at the completed grid. In 2021, three rookies will be...
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Back in 2008, a fresh-faced Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren was overtaken by an even fresher-faced Sebastian Vettel in his Toro Rosso on the penultimate lap of the final race, the Brazilian GP. Vettel took 5th, the position Hamilton needed to win the title. Only the skidding Toyota of Timo Glock,...
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First, let’s get one thing straight. The new breed of cars look downright monstrous: huge wheels, huge bodies – they are the hybrid era on steroids. Lewis Hamilton summed up the thinking around the new cars rather succinctly in a tweet when the new Mercedes W08 was unveiled on...