The new Formula One season is almost upon us but McLaren chief Zak Brown has one eye on 2021 March 1, 2020 Last year’s fourth-placed finish in the Formula One constructor’s championship saw McLaren end one of the most turbulent decades in the team’s history on a high. While it was a huge step forward – climbing from ninth and sixth in the previous two seasons – maintaining that trajectory this year looks all but inconceivable. Mercedes, [...]
Lando Norris reveals the anxiety of his debut F1 season and what he is targeting in 2020 February 11, 2020 As a new season approaches, Formula One’s youngest driver is ready to come of age in his second campaign. Lando Norris enjoyed a relatively successful debut season in 2019, finishing 11th in the driver’s standings as McLaren came fourth in the constructors’ championship. But the 20-year-old Briton did not always believe his first foray into [...]
Red Bull and Max Verstappen are ready to challenge Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton for F1 titles January 8, 2020 Max Verstappen’s decision, announced this week, to sign a three-year contract extension to stay at Red Bull until the end of the 2023 season is the biggest sign yet of the team’s intent to topple Mercedes. The 22-year-old’s future was the subject of much speculation during the off-season until he committed his long-term future to [...]
Ferrari left with plenty to ponder as disappointing F1 season comes to a close in Abu Dhabi November 27, 2019 After the curtain falls on another Formula One season under the floodlights of this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, there will be a number of questions for Ferrari to answer over the winter break. The Italians have already secured second place in the constructors’ championship but have once again fallen short of their ultimate goal, [...]
Revealed: How Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes retained their Formula One titles but kept a lid on costs November 7, 2019 Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes team has become the only outfit in the past decade to win the Formula One championship without increasing its spending by more than £1m. Hamilton steered his Mercedes to a sixth title at last weekend’s US Grand Prix despite the team’s costs only increasing by £0.9m to £321.5m, analysis of company accounts [...]
Why does Lewis Hamilton not receive the recognition he deserves in Great Britain? November 6, 2019 When Lewis Hamilton claimed his sixth Formula One world title on Sunday there was an inevitability about it that detracted from the magnitude of his accomplishment. Hamilton is the second most successful F1 driver ever and among a pantheon of elite British sportspeople yet he remains largely under-appreciated in the UK. Undoubtedly he is admired [...]
Where Lewis Hamilton’s sixth title puts him in Formula One’s all-time lists November 4, 2019 Another year in Formula One for Lewis Hamilton, another world championship. And just as the Briton continues to underline his and Mercedes’ utter dominance of the current era, so too does he climb the sport’s all-time lists. Here is where his title-clinching second-place finish at Sunday’s US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, leaves him. Titles [...]
United States Grand Prix key part of Liberty Media’s grand plan for Formula One expansion October 29, 2019 Formula One returns to Austin, Texas this weekend for the United States Grand Prix, a race with a growing symbolic significance for owner Liberty Media’s ambitions for the sport. An exciting track designed specifically for F1 by German engineer Hermann Tilke, it is one of only five anti-clockwise circuits on the calendar and has seen [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Battle-hardened Orlaith looks the bet in Firth Of Clyde September 20, 2019 LOOKING back at recent winners of the William Hill Firth Of Clyde Stakes (3.15pm), the majority have arrived at Ayr with plenty of experience under their belts. Last year’s heroine Queen Of Bermuda was having her eighth start of the campaign and already boasted three wins to her name. This year’s renewal features several lightly-raced [...]
Liberty Media face logistical nightmare as swelling Formula One calendar puts squeeze on teams September 10, 2019 Next season Formula One will race out of the blocks with back-to-back grands prix in Australia and Bahrain in an attempt to fit a record 22-race season into the 37 weeks currently spanning the calendar. It is a significant amendment to the season as F1 owners Liberty Media press on with plans to expand into [...]