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Sebastian Vettel has ended the final practice session from the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in first place, laying down a 1:10.843 on the soft tyres. The German was over one-...
Lewis Hamilton has ended the opening practice session of the Canadian Grand Prix weekend on top of the timesheets, as Mercedes holds a large gap to its rivals. Hamilton's l...
Valtteri Bottas says that Ferrari will still have the top speed advantage over the Mercedes powered cars this weekend even after the German team introduce their Phase 2 engine. ...
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has explained why the team opted to provide Valtteri Bottas with a new race engineer for the 2019 season. Tony Ross worked with Bottas t...
Will Mercedes' engine upgrades be enough to keep rivals behind? Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton hinted at the last race in Monaco that Mercedes will introduce their first majo...
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes Valtteri Bottas will bounce back in strong form next time out in Canada. Bottas was running second in the Monaco Grand Prix before h...
Valtteri Bottas says that traffic on his out lap before his final run in Q3 denied him a chance taking pole position in Monaco. Bottas will start Sunday's race from second ...
Charles Leclerc has topped the final practice session at Monaco, setting a 1:11.265 to just finish ahead of Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas. However, Leclerc is under investigati...
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has insisted that the team are not targeting a perfect 21 wins from 21 races this season after their record-breaking start to this season...
Valtteri Bottas says that if he wants to beat his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton over the course of the season then every single opportunity is going to be key. Until Ba...
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton reckons that the team's 2019 challenger, the W10, is "the best car" that they have ever made in Formula 1. The comment comes in ...
Mercedes says that the lack of grip may have been the reason behind Valtteri Bottas' poor start at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday. Bottas started the race from pole ...
Lewis Hamilton admits that Mercedes' dominance is not how Formula 1 should be, after the team took a fifth consecutive one-two finish of the season on Sunday. After locking...
Valtteri Bottas says he is keen to understand some "strange behaviour" he experienced with the clutch at the start of the Spanish Grand Prix. Bottas started the race ...
Lewis Hamilton says that he suffered from battery charging problems during qualifying, which had an impact on his schedule during the Q3 session. However, the Briton hailed tea...
Valtteri Bottas says he didn't expect the gap over teammate Lewis Hamilton during qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix to be so large. The Finn claimed his ninth career po...
Valtteri Bottas has taken pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix, boasting a gap of over six-tenths of a second to teammate Lewis Hamilton. Bottas takes his third conse...
Valtteri Bottas has topped the opening practice session of the weekend, beating Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to the top spot. Bottas seemed to struggle at Turn 12 during...
Lewis Hamilton says that no one should expect the intra-team tensions that were seen at Mercedes from 2014 to 2016 prior to Nico Rosberg's retirement. At the opening four r...
Some Formula 1 drivers say it would be a "shame" to lose the Spanish Grand Prix from the calendar. The future of the event in uncertain as its current contract ...
Formula 1 managing director of motorsports Ross Brawn has praised Valtteri Bottas' strong start to the 2019 season. The Finn has picked up two wins from four, as has teamma...
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes his team is lucky to have a harmonious relationship between its two drivers after its strong start to the 2019 season. Mercedes has ...
Valtteri Bottas says winning the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday was payback for missing out on the victory 12 months ago. The Finn was on course to take the chequered flag at ...
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton believes he was "too friendly" with teammate Valtteri Bottas as the pair went wheel to wheel into Turn 1 at the start of the Azerbaij...
Mercedes once again executed a perfect weekend in Azerbaijan, as it continues to stretch out its advantage over Ferrari in the fight for the title. Ferrari failed to keep maxim...
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel said that he felt 'very uncomfortable' during the race in Azerbaijan, after damaging his soft tyres early on during the first stint. ...
Valtteri Bottas has taken his second win in four races, as Mercedes grabbed a fourth consecutive one-two finish in 2019. The second Silver Arrow of Lewis Hamilton followed in s...
Toto Wolff believes that Mercedes was able to gain relative performance over Ferrari in the cooler Baku temperatures, which took it to its third qualifying one-two of the year. ...
Valtteri Bottas has taken pole position for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, beating teammate Lewis Hamilton to the top spot. Hamilton ended the session less than a tenth down on the...
Charles Leclerc ended the final practice session on top of the timesheets as Ferrari concluded running 1.2 seconds ahead of the rest of the field. The nearest Mercedes was over...
Ferrari came away from the second practice session as the fastest, with Charles Leclerc beating teammate Sebastian Vettel to the top spot. Leclerc's fastest time was a 1:42...
Valtteri Bottas says that he saw his poor start at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday coming. The Finn lost out to teammate Lewis Hamilton off the line, with the latter taking th...
Valtteri Bottas says that his chance of winning the Chinese Grand Prix disappeared at the start of the race. The Finn, who started from pole position, was jumped off the line b...
Valtteri Bottas admits that he feels lucky to walk away from qualifying in China after a "super close" qualifying session. The Finn got the better of teammate Lewis H...
Valtteri Bottas has taken pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix, beating teammate Lewis Hamilton to the top spot by just 0.023s. The Finn takes his seventh career pole posit...
Valtteri Bottas has ended the final practice session on top of the timesheets, beating Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel by less than four-tenths of a second. On his final qualify...
Valtteri Bottas has topped the second practice session in China, finishing just ahead of Sebastian Vettel on the time sheets. The Finn set his fastest lap on the soft tyre...
Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas is concerned that the team will lose out to rivals Ferrari at the next two races in China and Azerbaijan thanks to their gains in straight lin...
Lewis Hamilton Hamilton did not have the car to challenge Ferrari in qualifying, or for most of the race. However, after changing tyres he had a few good battles on his second ...
Valtteri Bottas says that a plastic bag got caught in his front wing during the Bahrain Grand Prix which cost him some performance during the race. Bottas managed to cross the ...
Valtteri Bottas says that being out-qualified by teammate Lewis Hamilton for the second consecutive weekend is "not a disaster". The Finn was pipped to third place by...
Nico Rosberg believes that Valtteri Bottas is doing well in getting under Lewis Hamilton's skin so far in 2019. The Finn took the race victory two weeks ago in Melbourne af...
Valtteri Bottas believes that the regulation that now awards one championship point for the fastest lap could play a major role in the world championship fight th...
Lewis Hamilton says he managed the gap to teammate Valtteri Bottas during the Australian Grand Prix. The Briton crossed the line 21 seconds behind Bottas in second place to pic...
Valtteri Bottas has dedicated his Australian Grand Prix victory to Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting, who passed away on the eve of the season-opening race. Bottas crosse...
Valtteri Bottas says that his Grand Prix victory in Australia was his 'best ever race'. The Finn took his fourth career victory, crossing the finish line 21 seconds ahe...
Valtteri Bottas has won the opening race of the 2019 Formula 1 season, dominating from lights out to the chequered flag. The Mercedes driver crossed the finish line 21 seconds ...
Valtteri Bottas says that he is "blown away" by the pace Mercedes showed during Saturday's qualifying session. The Silver Arrows locked out the front row at Alber...
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton has expressed his pleasure at having Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas as his teammate once again in 2019. This is the third time the drivers have par...
Valtteri Bottas believes that Mercedes will be chasing Ferrari in 2019, adding that he believes the Silver Arrows are now underdogs. Mercedes has dominated Formula 1 over the l...
Valtteri Bottas says he is determined to beat all of his competitors this year after a difficult 2018 season. Bottas ended last year's campaign in fifth place, and was...
Valtteri Bottas says he intends to start the 2019 Formula 1 season from zero as he looks to recover from a disappointing 2018 campaign. Bottas failed to win a race last year, d...
The second week of pre-season testing has concluded, with the four days of running providing us with more insights into how the 2019 season could shape up. Below, we'v...
Lewis Hamilton was pleased with how his Thursday running went in Barcelona, stating that it was one of the most positive days for Mercedes. Between Hamilton and teammate Valtte...
Charles Leclerc says that there was still some margin left over during his fastest lap that he set on Thursday morning. The Monegasque driver clocked a 1:16.231, which blitzed ...
Mercedes has claimed that the new aero package that they brought to the second test in Barcelona has yielded a "considerably quicker" race simulation. However, some pr...
Charles Leclerc topped the morning session from day seven of testing in Barcelona, heading the timesheets with a 1:16.361. The lap time marks the fastest we've seen at pre-...
Carlos Sainz has topped the morning session from day six of testing, as Sebastian Vettel's outing ended in the barriers. Ferrari reported that the German's crash w...
Lewis Hamilton is expecting a more aggressive Valtteri Bottas this year, hailing the Finn's determination at Mercedes. Bottas joined the Silver Arrows at the start of the 2...
Valtteri Bottas says that he spent his winter looking ways to cut teammate Lewis Hamilton's advantage over him. Hamilton has firmly beaten the Finnish driver over their tim...
Nico Hulkenberg has topped the final day of test one from the Circuit de Catalunya. The German set a 1:17.393, the fastest time that has been set so far this week. Hulkenberg c...
Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas says that Ferrari looks to be fast "no matter" how much fuel it has in the car. Ferrari topped the first two days of pre-season testing,...
Daniil Kvyat has topped the third day of pre-season testing from Barcelona, setting a 1:17.704 in the final minutes of the session. Kimi Raikkonen was the longtime session lead...
Kimi Raikkonen has topped the morning session of the third day of pre-season testing from Barcelona. The Finn set his fastest lap time on the C4 tyres, laying down a 1:17.762, ...
It is believed that the Mercedes F1 team is building towards some 'interesting testing' for the second week of pre-season testing in Barcelona. On day two of the test, t...
Sebastian Vettel ended the first day of pre-season testing on top of the timesheets, as his lap from the morning session remained unbeaten. The German set a 1:18.161, which was...
Mercedes has unveiled the W10, the car it hopes will take it to a sixth consecutive world championship. The German manufacturer is yet to be dethroned in the turbo hybrid era wh...
The FIA has officially released the entry list for the 2019 Formula 1 season which confirms that Racing Point will keep its name for the year. It is believed the Silverston...
Mercedes F1 driver Valtteri Bottas says he is confident he will be much stronger in 2019, after finding positives he could not see after the conclusion of the 2018 season. ...
2016 world champion Nico Rosberg, who was partnered with Lewis Hamilton for four seasons, says that if Valtteri Bottas has a good start to the season in 2019 it could upset the ...
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