Mercedes

Rhys Thomas When a driver is instructed over the radio to move aside to let their teammate past, it is rarely a popular message. The potential excitement and risk of teammates racing in equal machinery, potentially putting on a fantastic display of racing, or ruining each other’s races, is...

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...

It’s safe to say that the past four months in Formula One have been full of unexpected twists and turns, as Mercedes’ rule at the top has been truly put to the test. Amrit Virdi explores the 2021 Grand Prix so far up to Hungary, and how the crashes,...

Madelaine Telford reviews a dramatic season of Formula 1...

Rachel Roberts When the lights went out for the first race in the 2020 Formula 1 season in July, no one was quite sure how the rest would play out. Yet 9 Grand Prix in, one thing has remained the same: Mercedes still dominate. Their drivers have claimed victory...

16 weeks later than planned, Formula 1’s 2020 season started last weekend, albeit in Austria rather then Australia. The race itself was worth the wait – only 11 out of the 20 cars that started, finished, making for an exhilarating watch....

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,...