Highlights were Fernando Alonso’s opening lap, the pass by Daniel Ricciardo on Valtteri Bottas at the restart after the late Safety Car, Vettel’s attempt to do the same with Lewis Hamilton in the other Mercedes and the two collisions between the Force India drivers.
Lewis Hamilton won the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix in his 200th start with a start-to-finish lead over runner-up Sebastian Vettel. Hamilton held off his title rival on soft tyres as Vettel gave chase on ultra-softs after a Safety Car period on lap 30, to take victory and reduce the gap in the drivers standings
Lewis Hamilton equalled Michael Schumacher’s career record of 68 poles by qualifying fastest for the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix. It is Hamilton’s 200th Grand Prix start, 43 fewer than Schumacher took to reach that mark.
Sebastian Vettel’s contract with the Ferrari Formula 1 team has been extended for three years, the Scuderia announced on Saturday at the Belgian Grand Prix.
F1, like all professional sports, is a generation game. A new generation comes in, replacing an older one that retires. In the 1960s and 70s the turnover was much faster as sadly many drivers were killed. Nowadays, the cars and circuits are much safer and it is common for drivers to clock over 200 ...
After a short break for the drivers and long for the fans, Formula One is back at our lives. The action returns to one of the most thrilling circuits on the calendar, at Spa in Belgium. Everyone is looking forward to watch a battle between Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton for the drivers’ championship.
This weekend F1 returns from its summer break to race at Spa-Francorchamps and one of the hot topics is sure to be whether teams and drivers have made the right choice of tyres for the weekend or whether some might get caught out.
Formula 1 will host an eSports series in 2017 in a partnership with Codemasters, the developer of its official F1 game to find a virtual ‘World Champion’.
Today James tackles readers’ burning questions about the maximum number of races F1 can stage in a season, Kimi Raikkonen’s role at Ferrari, F1 driver fitness, new F1 teams and possible driver moves for 2019.
In this latest instalment of the mid season Q&A with James Allen we tackle questions about Renault F1’s future line up, which tracks in the second half of the season will best suit Mercedes or Ferrari, whether Pirelli and F1 should stick with tyres that degrade for ‘the show’ and the future F1 calendar.
“In the current climate (and realistically in the near future) is it possible for a non works team to win the championship? Was Ron Dennis right about this? Should Red Bull push for a Honda team up or really push to get the VW group involved? What would encourage more manufacturers to get involved in F1?”
Williams’ 2017 F1 season hasn’t gone as smoothly as the outfit would have liked, with its fourth place battle against Force India all but lost and fifth place now at risk.
Over this week James is answering fans’ burning questions on F1, while the sport takes a summer break. We’ve had a big response already with lots of questions on the Mercedes vs Ferrari battle, the future of Fernando Alonso, the F1 calendar, young drivers, TV paywalls, F1 rules