Formula 1

George Russell will partner Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes from next season, the team have announced. The 23-year-old Briton replaces Valtteri Bottas, whose move to Alfa Romeo from 2022 was revealed on Monday. Russell joins Mercedes after three years at Williams in which he underlined his credentials for a seat in a top team. Russell said

Every once in a while, a Formula 1 driver comes along who from a very early stage in his career leaves no doubt whatsoever that he is a rare and special talent. The 23-year-old Briton has been in F1 since 2019, and has been driving for all but one race of that time a car

Last updated on 36 minutes ago36 minutes ago.From the section Formula 1 Even by Formula 1’s dramatic standards, the recent Hungarian Grand Prix was a thriller – yet an image captured before it began may prove its biggest legacy. There was another moment that made headlines around the world, though. During the pre-race national anthem

Valtteri Bottas is to move to Alfa Romeo from Mercedes next season. The announcement of the Finn’s switch paves the way for Mercedes to declare the signing of George Russell to partner Lewis Hamilton from 2022. Bottas said: “I am proud of what I achieved at Mercedes and I am fully focused on finishing the

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took a dominant victory over Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton in the Dutch Grand Prix to retake the championship lead. Verstappen, cheered on by 65,000 enthusiastic home fans, led all the way from pole position, comfortably keeping a following Hamilton at bay. The Dutchman leads Hamilton by three points after his seventh win

Zandvoort is hosting a Formula 1 grand prix for the first time since 1985 – and the Dutch fans are revelling in its return. With homegrown star Max Verstappen to cheer on from the grandstands, the Orange Army are giving British supporters at Silverstone a run for the money in fanatical support. BBC Sport takes

Max Verstappen beat Lewis Hamilton to pole position at the Dutch Grand Prix by just 0.038 seconds, sending his devoted home fans wild. The Red Bull driver had appeared in control throughout qualifying but Hamilton improved on his final lap to miss out by the narrowest of margins. The second Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas was

Alfa Romeo driver Kimi Raikkonen has tested positive for Covid-19 and will miss this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix. Alfa Romeo said: “Kimi is displaying no symptoms and is in good spirits. He has immediately entered isolation” Kubica last raced at the end of the 2019 season for Williams but has tested for Alfa a number

Charles Leclerc led a Ferrari one-two in Dutch Grand Prix second practice while Lewis Hamilton missed most of the session with an engine problem. Hamilton’s Mercedes stopped on track after he had done just one flying lap. He was classified 11th. Leclerc headed team-mate Carlos Sainz by 0.154 seconds. Alpine’s Esteban Ocon was third, ahead

Alexander Albon is a contender for a return to Formula 1 with either Alfa Romeo or Williams next year, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner says. The Anglo-Thai drove for Red Bull for a season and a half in 2019 and 2020 and is the team’s reserve driver in 2021. “Alex deserves a seat in

Lewis Hamilton headed title rival Max Verstappen in a bizarrely truncated first practice session at the Dutch Grand Prix. The hour-long session was interrupted for nearly 40 minutes when Sebastian Vettel’s Aston Martin stopped on track with a suspected engine failure. The car was still electrically live, delaying its recovery to the pits. Running resumed

Lewis Hamilton has welcomed the idea of George Russell being his team-mate should the British rising star move to Mercedes next season. Russell is expected to replace Valtteri Bottas at the world champions, while the Finn is tipped for a switch to Alfa Romeo. Neither move is confirmed. Russell is “an incredibly talented driver” and

Kimi Raikkonen said that Formula 1 “has never been my life” in his first interview since announcing his retirement from the sport. The 41-year-old Finn, who won the 2007 world title with Ferrari, said he had no plans for his future and “right now I am not interested to think about it”. “F1 takes a

Former world champion Kimi Raikkonen has announced that he will retire from Formula 1 at the end of the season. The 41-year-old Finn, who won the 2007 championship with Ferrari, currently races for Alfa Romeo. “This is it. This will be my last season in Formula One. This is a decision I did during last

Formula 1 is to make rule changes to prevent a recurrence of the events surrounding the controversial abandonment of the Belgian Grand Prix. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was declared the winner of a race that lasted two laps behind the safety car. Heavy rain had prevented any competitive racing at the Spa-Francorchamps track. Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton has criticised the aborted Belgian Grand Prix as “a farce” and accused Formula 1 of cynicism in the way it ran the rain-hit race. Hamilton said drivers were sent out for two laps behind the safety car solely to secure an official result. Writing on Instagram, he said: “We should have called it

Catie Munnings has won Greenland’s first ever motorsport event in Extreme E’s Arctic X-Prix alongside her Andretti United team-mate Timmy Hansen. She lined up third for the final heat behind ASXE’s Laia Sainz and X44’s Sebastian Loeb. A lightning start saw her briefly take the lead through the first corner before falling back down to

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was declared the winner of a Belgian Grand Prix that lasted two laps behind the safety car. Heavy rain prevented any competitive racing at the Spa-Francorchamps track. The start was delayed by half an hour before two attempts were made to start the race – with a gap of nearly three