News, views and updates about seven-time F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton. The British driver will be in a Ferrari car in 2025 as he looks to secure a record-breaking eighth Drivers’ Championship.
After a thrilling race in Monza that saw Charles Leclerc take his second Italian Grand Prix victory in front of the Ferrari faithful, Formula 1 returns for round 17 of the championship in Azerbaijan, the first of the final flyaway races of the season. Max Verstappen holds a 62-point lead over Lando Norris in the…
After 16 races in the 2024 season, it has been no secret that the race day is much stronger than qualifying runs for Hamilton. With two wins this season, both where he did not start on pole, Hamilton says the satisfaction of performing better on Sunday should be visible but does not happen due to…
Mercedes revert to older-spec floor for F1 Azerbaijan GP Ahead of this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Pit Debrief has learned Mercedes will return to the floor they ran pre-sumner break as balance issues have affected the W15 in recent weeks. A tricky start to the season saw the team fail to finish in the top…
Toto Wolff conceded that Mercedes has lost “quite a chunk” of performance since the summer break, following another lacklustre showing at the Italian Grand Prix. After winning three of the last four races before the summer break, Mercedes faced a harsh reality check at the first post-break round in the Netherlands, where their drivers finished…
Lewis Hamilton achieved his seventh top five result in the past eight races. Starting from P6, he became the best finishing Mercedes driver due to the damage on the picked up by his teammate George Russell at turn 1. Mercedes’s pace didn’t appear as positive or as impressive as it had been at Spa and…
After a strong performance in the final practice session at the Italian Grand Prix, Mercedes seemed poised to contend for pole position during qualifying. George Russell managed to outpace the Ferrari duo, securing third place, while McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri claimed the front row. Meanwhile, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz took…
Final practice for the 2024 Italian GP got underway in sunny conditions around Monza. The two Sauber cars of Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu were the first to go out on track, but it was Haas’ Kevin Magnussen the first to set a fast lap, with a 1:21.774 on the soft tyres. That was soon…
Following the stunning news on the first day of February that Lewis Hamilton would be joining Scuderia Ferrari in 2025 on a multi-year deal, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team has announced that their 18-year-old junior driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli will partner George Russell at the Brackley-based squad next season. Antonelli’s junior formula record has been extremely…
Pace looked strong for Lewis Hamilton in the 2024 F1 Dutch Grand Prix. He saw the chequered flag six places higher than where he’d begun the race, gaining more positions than any other driver. Unfortunately, this impressive drive only resulted in an 8th place finish. Hamilton had qualified at a measly P12, and started the…
The 2024 Dutch Grand Prix proved to be a challenging race for Mercedes, with the team struggling to replicate the form they had shown in recent races. Despite a promising qualifying session that saw George Russell secure fourth on the grid, race day delivered a disappointing result, with both Mercedes cars finishing outside the top…
