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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 The third race of 2021’s Formula 1 season, the Portuguese Grand Prix is renowned for being a track where there is great potential for sensational overtaking. It was recently revived within the 2020 season for the first time since 1996, and fans were overjoyed that the track...

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...

Madelaine Telford Last weekend, the Turkish Grand Prix saw Lewis Hamilton crossing the finish line as 7-time World Champion, equalling Michael Schumacher’s record. The 2020 season has been another dominant one for Mercedes, with their lead driver Lewis Hamilton achieving ten victories out of a possible fourteen. At the...

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,...

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...

Valtteri Bottas finds himself in the enviable position of driving for the team who have dominated Formula One for the last three years. In replacing world champion Nico Rosberg, Bottas will be facing up against one of the most mercurial talents of his generation, Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton’s desire to...