Sergio Perez has both endured and enjoyed a journeyman’s career. On Sunday, he earned his signature first win, a moment that seemed long overdue for the 30-year-old Mexican driver. Perez has hovered near the front of the pack all season long, but circumstances finally proved favorable, and he capitalized on …
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Valtteri Bottas nabbed his fifth pole position of the 2020 Formula 1 season on Saturday night (Dec. 5). The Fin held off his temporary teammate by 0.002 seconds to secure the pole and earn Mercedes another front-row lockout. George Russell, filling in for the COVID-stricken Lewis Hamilton, looked impressive in …
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Jack Aitken will replace George Russell at Williams Racing in the Sakhir Grand Prix this weekend, the team announced Dec. 2, while Russell competes in place of Lewis Hamilton. Russell replaces Hamilton at Mercedes after the 2020 champion tested positive for COVID-19 and will sit out the event. Aitken, meanwhile, …
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For Lewis Hamilton, winning the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix looked like a case of things just going his way. Hamilton qualified second, leaving him at a disadvantage to his teammate. When Valtteri Bottas took the lead in a convincing fashion, it looked like the Finn might be able to disrupt …
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Williams Racing has been struggling ever since 2017, but in 2020 there is still something they haven’t yet accomplished: scoring a point. For most of Williams’s storied history, they have never gone a full season without scoring at least one championship point; the only time they ever went a season …
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All season long, it has been clear that Mercedes was en-route to another constructors’ championship. Having dominated Formula 1 to the ire of many since 2014, the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix might have been one of Mercedes’s most interesting outings yet. Fresh off of his record breaking 92nd career victory …
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Lewis Hamilton has been on fire all season long. Logging seven poles and another six grand prix victories, it is clear that Hamilton’s dominance in 2020 is here to stay. Following a hectic Q2 at the Sochi Autodrom, Hamilton was able to best Max Verstappen by 0.563 seconds to claim …
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ÂLewis Hamilton made the most of his do-over at the inaugural Tuscan Grand Prix on Sunday (Sept. 13). Racing for the first time on the track, Formula 1 enacted an unusual show for the second consecutive weekend and this time Hamilton made no errors. Last weekend at Monza, Hamilton lost …
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What’s been vey clear over the last few races is that Williams Racing is on the rise. Despite being a consistent backmarker since 2018, the British outlet has undergone a lot of changes. On Aug. 21, 2020, the team was sold by the Williams family to Dorilton Capital and since …
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On Sunday, Lewis Hamilton moved within two wins of tying all-time leader Michael Schumacher. Hamilton earned his fifth win of the season at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and further distanced himself from the field in his quest for a seventh driver’s title. He now has a tidy 47-point gap on Max …
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