Tag: Mercedes
Andrea Kimi Antonelli: Mercedes confirm Italian teenager as Lewis Hamilton’s replacement for 2025 F1 season | F1 News
Mercedes have confirmed Italian teenager Andrea Kimi Antonelli will replace Lewis Hamilton from the start of the 2025 Formula 1 season. Hamilton announced in February that he will join Ferrari next year and Mercedes have chosen rising star Antonelli, who turned 18 last Sunday, to be George Russell’s team-mate on a one-year contract. Antonelli made…
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Kimi Antonelli crashes in practice debut for Mercedes
Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli of Italy prepares for the first free practice ahead of the F1 Italian Grand Prix race at the Monza racetrack, in Monza, Italy, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) MONZA, Italy— Teenager Kimi Antonelli’s Formula 1 debut lasted just 10 minutes on Friday. Antonelli, who only turned 18 on…
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Italian GP: Max Verstappen fastest after Andrea Kimi Antonelli crashes on Mercedes practice debut at Monza | F1 News
Andrea Kimi Antonelli dramatically crashed out on his F1 practice debut for Mercedes as Max Verstappen was fastest in the opening session at the Italian Grand Prix. Italian teenager Antonelli, who is expected to replace Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes for 2025, was driving George Russell’s car and there was huge anticipation about his first official…
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Lewis Hamilton: Mercedes F1 driver’s engineer Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington to stay at Mercedes after Ferrari links | F1 News
Lewis Hamilton’s race engineer Peter Bonnington has been given a promotion at Mercedes and will not join the seven-time world champion at Ferrari. Sky Sports News understands Bonnington, also known as ‘Bono’ has moved up to head of race engineering but will remain as Hamilton’s race engineer for the remainder of the season. When Hamilton…
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Max Verstappen makes McLaren, Mercedes admission with Red Bull no longer F1’s fastest | F1 News
Max Verstappen admits Red Bull have been overtaken by their much-improved F1 rivals and says the reigning champions “know that we have work to do” to improve when the season resumes at the end of August. For the first time since 2020, the season before Verstappen won his maiden world title, Red Bull have gone…
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Mercedes explain George Russell’s disqualification at Belgian Grand Prix with driver’s own weight loss partly to blame | F1 News
Mercedes have explained their initial findings for the reasons behind George Russell’s disqualification from the Belgian GP. Russell appeared to have pulled off a glorious victory when he held off Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton in the closing stages to take the chequered flag at Spa. However, the remarkable one-stop strategy that the Brit pulled off…
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Belgian GP: Lewis Hamilton ready for ‘hell of a fight’ in expected dry race after major Mercedes changes | F1 News
Lewis Hamilton feels he will have to put up a “hell of a fight” in the Belgian Grand Prix if he is to maintain the podium position he qualified in during Saturday’s rain-hit running at Spa-Francorchamps. Hamilton got the wet weather he had been left hoping for after a “pretty bad” Friday of running for…
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Belgian GP: Lewis Hamilton left hoping forecast Spa rain arrives after ‘pretty bad’ Mercedes start | F1 News
Lewis Hamilton admits Mercedes could do with the forecast rain arriving at Spa-Francorchamps for qualifying on Saturday after what he described as “a pretty bad” first day at the Belgian Grand Prix. Despite the much-improved W15 being equipped with a fresh round of updates on Friday at Spa-Francorchamps, Mercedes finished one second behind pacesetters McLaren…
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Lewis Hamilton: Mercedes driver expects more steps forward with next F1 upgrade at Hungarian GP | F1 News
Lewis Hamilton is hopeful Mercedes’ next raft of car upgrades – the latest of which will be introduced at this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix – will soon allow them to reproduce their stellar front-running British GP form on a regular basis. Having gone 19 months without a win in F1, Mercedes head to Budapest’s Hungaroring…
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Lewis Hamilton: Where does record British GP triumph rank among Mercedes driver’s best wins? | F1 News
After Lewis Hamilton claimed what he described as the “most emotional” win of his career at Sunday’s British Grand Prix, Sky Sports F1 take a look back at his greatest victories. Canada 2007: Hamilton explodes into F1 After an impressively fast start to his rookie season – with five straight podiums and plenty of pressure…
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