Lewis Hamilton torn between Mercedes loyalty, Ferrari novelty
Lewis Hamilton has admitted he will be torn between loyalty to Mercedes and the novelty of a new challenge at Ferrari when he considers his options for what is expected to be his last racing driver's contract in Formula One. The 34-year-old Briton had little ...
Lewis Hamilton closes out F1 season with easy win at Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
World champion Lewis Hamilton's 11th victory in another dominant season proved so easy that the driver who finished way back in second place at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix joked he should have eased up a bit. Hamilton's 84th career win saw him finishing around ...
Lewis Hamilton in no hurry to win Formula One title in Mexico
Lewis Hamilton said he was in no hurry to win a sixth world championship after the title battle was reduced to a two-horse Mercedes race at the Japanese Grand Prix. The Formula One circus moves on to Mexico in two weeks' time where Hamilton, enjoying ...
Emotional Mercedes boss Toto Wolff dedicates record title to Niki Lauda
An emotional Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff Sunday dedicated his team's historic sixth consecutive world championship double to Formula One legend Niki Lauda, who died earlier this year. Valtteri Bottas won the typhoon-affected Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka Circuit with Lewis Hamilton third, meaning that ...
Japanese Grand Prix waiting on qualifying call as Typhoon Hagibis approaches
Japanese Grand Prix organizers will not make any decision to postpone Saturday qualifying for another 24 hours but pledged that the safety of fans and drivers was their top priority as a massive storm bears down on Japan. Typhoon Hagibis is classed as "violent" — ...
Red Bull's Max Verstappen secures first Formula One win for Honda since 2006
Red Bull's Max Verstappen survived a stewards' investigation to keep his win in the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday, giving the team's Japanese engine manufacturer Honda its first Formula One victory in 13 years. With two laps to go, Dutchman Verstappen made a pass on ...
F1 icon Niki Lauda remembered in heartfelt tributes at Monaco Grand Prix practice
Poignant tributes to Niki Lauda, including a solitary red baseball cap left hanging on his earphones peg, were all around the Mercedes team motorhome and its cars on Thursday morning as practice began for the Monaco Grand Prix. On a dry and hazy morning in ...
Race to Motegi for outdoor fun and games
Racecars, zip lines and the great outdoors — a visit to Twin Ring Motegi tracks in Tochigi Prefecture will keep the kids racing around in excitement.
Schumacher documentary to hit market at Cannes Film Festival
Former world champion Formula One driver Michael Schumacher will be the subject of a new documentary by two German filmmakers in a production fully supported by his family, reports said Monday. Produced by the Hamburg-based company B/14 Film and directed by Michael Wech and Hanns-Bruno ...
Brazil mourns Ayrton Senna 25 years after his tragic death at Imola
A master on the Formula One racing track, triple world champion Ayrton Senna was the pride of Brazil. Twenty-five years after his death at the San Marino Grand Prix, he remains one of the country's biggest sporting legends. The anniversary of Senna's death on Wednesday ...
Formula One boss Chase Carey said next year's inaugural race in Hanoi will be "uniquely exciting" thanks to a street track he hopes will help make the event a global spectacle. Carey spoke Monday after inspecting initial work on the 5.6-km (3.5 mile) track that ...
Formula One is keen on establishing a second Grand Prix in China to go with the current Shanghai race, a top figure in the sport said. There are no immediate plans for another race in the country but it would be part of a concerted ...
