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• George Russell and Mercedes enjoying ‘great start’ to 2025 F1 season

Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images Could a title fight be in the cards for George Russell? On paper, 2025 looked to be a transition year for Mercedes. The Formula 1 team saw one of the greatest drivers in the history of the sport leave at the end of the 2024 campaign, with Lewis Hamilton departing for Ferrari. Toto Wolff and company tapped young Kimi Antonelli to drive alongside George Russe...2025
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• Toto Wolff and Mercedes hope to continue their ‘promising start’ at Japanese Grand Prix

Photo by Andy Hone/LAT Images Mercedes is off to a strong start to the F1 season, and they hope to keep it rolling at the Japanese Grand Prix While McLaren is off to a strong start to the 2025 Formula 1 season, with Lando Norris winning the Australian Grand Prix and Oscar Piastri taking the win at the Chinese Grand Prix, Mercedes might be the big surprise on the grid. George Russell finish...2025
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• Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris are pushing the F1 grid, and each other

Photo by Kym Illman/Getty Images Recapping some winners from the Chinese Grand Prix, and some who have some work to do before Japan For the better part of three years, Zak Brown has been telling anyone who would listen that Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri comprise the best driver pairing on the Formula 1 grid. The smile on the McLaren CEO’s face as he posed with the pair for photographs fol...2025
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• Chinese Grand Prix: Live F1 race coverage

Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images Can Oscar Piastri win from pole and give McLaren two wins in two races? Can McLaren make it two wins in a row to open the 2025 Formula 1 season? Lando Norris went wire-to-wire to win the season-opening Australian Grand Prix last week, and now Oscar Piastri has a chance to replicate his teammate’s feat after capturing pole position for the Chinese Grand Pri...2025
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• Toto Wolff praises a ‘flawless’ Mercedes driver ahead of F1 Chinese Grand Prix

Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images Mercedes boss Toto Wolff was full of praise for his drivers ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix Mercedes saw their 2025 Formula 1 season get off to an incredible start at the Australian Grand Prix, with George Russell finishing third to secure the team’s first podium of the season and rookie Kimi Antonelli finishing less than two seconds behind him, placing fou...2025
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• What we learned from the F1 Australian Grand Prix

Photo by Bryn Lennon - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images The start to the 2025 F1 season taught us a few things about the grid, but there is a long way to go before we get the big answers Entering the 2025 Formula 1 season one of the many questions facing the grid was whether Lando Norris had learned exactly what it takes to fight at the front with the best in the world, specifically Ma...2025
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• Mercedes ‘delighted’ with impressive debut from Kimi Antonelli in Australian Grand Prix

Photo by Bryn Lennon - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images Kimi Antonelli battled the conditions, and the grid, to deliver a stunning result in his F1 debut The first race of the 2025 Formula 1 season saw six new first-time drivers take to the grid. When the checkered flag flew four of them — Isack Hadjar, Liam Lawson, Gabriel Bortoleto, and Jack Doohan — had already been knocked out of t...2025
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• Antonelli 4th on debut as penalty overturned
Mercedes teenager Andrea Kimi Antonelli impressed Toto Wolff at his debut Formula 1 grand prix, retaining his fourth place after a penalty was overturned....2025
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• Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes F1 promotion gets the ‘Drive to Survive’ treatment

Photo by Vince Mignott/MB Media/Getty Images See the moment Kimi Antonelli learned he was a Mercedes F1 driver Season 7 of the Netflix docuseries Drive to Survive drops on Friday, and the streaming giant has no shortage of storylines from the 2024 Formula 1 season to feature. At the top of that list, however, is the shocking decision by Lewis Hamilton to leave Mercedes at the end of the 2...2025
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• Mercedes F1 focused on ‘improvements’ with their 2025 challenger

Toto Wolff and company hope to take a step forward with the W16 A new dawn is breaking at Mercedes in Formula 1. After finishing a distant second to Red Bull in the Constructors’ Championship in 2023, Mercedes slipped to fourth in the standings last year. This came despite both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell reaching the top step of the podium, with Russell winning in Austria and Las Vegas, and...2025
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• Toto Wolff lauds Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari debut as ‘iconic’

Photo by Andrew Ferraro/LAT Images Lewis Hamilton’s former boss weighed in on his Ferrari debut On Wednesday the biggest names in motorsport gathered in London for the Autosport Awards, a celebration hosted by the legendary motorsport magazine to honor the top drivers and teams from the previous season. Among those in attendance? Mercedes Formula 1 Team Principal Toto Wolff, who took a mom...2025
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• Toto Wolff and Mercedes hoping for ‘smoother’ weekend at F1 São Paulo GP

Photo by Kym Illman/Getty Images Mercedes is hoping for better results at this weekend’s F1 São Paulo Grand Prix in Brazil The past two Formula 1 race weekends have not been too kind to Toto Wolff and Mercedes. Two weeks ago in Austin, both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell started at the back of the grid in the United States Grand Prix, Hamilton after a shocking elimination in Q1 and Russ...2024
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• F1 Q&A: Adrian Newey at Aston Martin, Alpine’s future, and the sport’s newest star

Photo by Kym Illman/Getty Images Answering F1 questions on Max Verstappen, the upcoming regulation changes, and more Ahead of this weekend’s Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, we thought it would be a good time to open up the old F1 mailbag. Boy, did the readers deliver. Thanks to the growing “F1 Threads” community over a dozen questions were sent over, more if you count subparts. The respon...2024
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"Mercedes boss Toto Wolff talked Lewis Hamilton and more as the team launched their adidas kit for the 2025 F1 season Mercedes is ushering in a new era this Formula 1 season."

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"We are excited about what George and Kimi bring to the team both as individual drivers, but also as a partnership,” said Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff."

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"Following qualifying, both Team Principal Toto Wolff and Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin outlined just where the team went wrong."

2022
"Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff believes it is important Formula One shines a "spotlight" on problems in the Middle East after security concerns at this weekend's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix nearly led F1 drivers to boycott the event."

2021
"Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton "seemed to open the sea" for Max Verstappen to lead into Turn 1 of the Mexican Grand Prix."

2020
"Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff believes Formula One runs the risk of comparisons with WWE if it introduces reverse-grid qualifying races, saying the sport should not be "designing freak results"."

2019
"Lewis Hamilton is still weighing up his options for 2021 in Formula One, but he knows his Mercedes seat is the most coveted on the grid -- evidenced by his claim that Max Verstappen has already reached out to team boss Toto Wolff."

2018
"Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has been impressed by Ferrari's "very visionary" link-up with Sauber and is considering implementing something similar for the world champions."

2017
"Toto Wolff says Mercedes wanted to supply McLaren with engines in 2018 but negotiations dragged on for too long."

• George Russell and Mercedes enjoying ‘great start’ to 2025 F1 season
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• Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris are pushing the F1 grid, and each other
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• Toto Wolff, Mercedes ready to write the ‘next chapter’ starting at Australian Grand Prix

Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images Mercedes begins a new era at the F1 Australian Grand Prix When the Formula 1 schedule kicks off this weekend in Melbourne it marks a new season for the sport, a new era for Mercedes. The Silver Arrows will begin the year with George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli as their driver pairing, and a few pit stalls down will be Lewis Hamilton, the driver who he...2025
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• What does the 2026 F1 driver lineup look like?

Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images With Cadillac confirmed for the 2026 F1 season, what does the driver lineup look like for next year? The 2024 Formula 1 driver transfer season kicked into gear with a stunning decision: Lewis Hamilton’s announcement that he was going to leave Mercedes and drive for Ferrari starting in 2025. Over the following weeks, intrigue followed the sport as the driver sil...2025
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• Everything you need to know about Season 7 of ‘Drive to Survive’

Photo by Kym Illman/Getty Images Netflix’s F1 docuseries is back this week for Season 7. Here is what you need to know The 2025 Formula 1 season begins in just under two weeks, with the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. While the Bahrain Grand Prix has in recent seasons served as the first race on the schedule, with Ramadan taking place in March F1 has shifted races scheduled in Bahrai...2025
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• Mercedes F1 focused on ‘improvements’ with their 2025 challenger
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• F1 2025: How long is each driver under contract?

Photo by Gongora/NurPhoto via Getty Images Diving into the contract status of every F1 driver ahead of the 2025 F1 season The 2024 Formula 1 season began with a bit of history for hte sport. For the first in F1 history the drivers who finished the previous season were the same drivers who began the next. That is certainly not the case as 2025 beckons. With several rookies joining the grid...2025
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• Valtteri Bottas returns to Mercedes F1

Photo by Steve Etherington/LAT Images What’s next for Valtteri Bottas? A trip home to Mercedes Valtteri Bottas is coming home. The Finnish driver announced on Thursday that he was returning to Mercedes for the Formula 1 season, as the team’s reserve driver. Bottas spent five F1 seasons driving for Mercedes alongside Lewis Hamilton, helping the team win five consecutive F1 Constructors’ Cha...2024
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• Toto Wolff lauds Lewis Hamilton ahead of the champion’s final Mercedes F1 race

Photo by James Gasperotti/Ciancaphoto Studio/Getty Images Lewis Hamilton’s time at Mercedes comes to a close at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and the tributes have started The tributes have begun. The 2024 Formula 1 season draws to a close with this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and it marks not only the end of a thrilling campaign but brings to a close the most productive driver-team pairin...2024
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• George Russell and Mercedes enjoying ‘great start’ to 2025 F1 season
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• Toto Wolff praises a ‘flawless’ Mercedes driver ahead of F1 Chinese Grand Prix
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• Toto Wolff lauds Lewis Hamilton ahead of the champion’s final Mercedes F1 race
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• Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris are pushing the F1 grid, and each other
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• Hamilton departure hasn't fully sunk in - Wolff
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said there were moments during the Australian Grand Prix he forgot Lewis Hamilton had left the team....2025
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• Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes F1 promotion gets the ‘Drive to Survive’ treatment
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• Toto Wolff hails Mercedes F1’s reinvention ahead of 2025 season

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff talked Lewis Hamilton and more as the team launched their adidas kit for the 2025 F1 season Mercedes is ushering in a new era this Formula 1 season. With living legend Lewis Hamilton beginning his journey at Ferrari after departing the team, Mercedes is turning to young phenom Andrea Kimi Antonelli to drive alongside George Russell. In addition, the team welcomed a new clo...2025
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• Wolff: F1 can make Middle East a better place

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• Hamilton sure he could have won Spanish GP

Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes boss Toto Wolff agreed he had the pace to win the Spanish Grand Prix were it not for an early collision with Kevin Magnussen....2022
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• Lewis Hamilton grabs pole and more winners and losers from qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix
Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images Hamilton was one of the big winners from qualifying on Saturday at the Hungaroring In recent weeks, qualifying sessions have provided some thrills for Formula 1 fans. Saturday in Budapest was no different. Qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix is in the books, and for just the second time this year a non-Red Bull car will be at the front of the grid. L...2023
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• Wolff makes Merc F1 vow: In 2023, we're back

Mercedes will put its troublesome 2022 car win reception of its two F1 factories as a reminder how difficult it is to win in Formula One, after Toto Wolff declared: "Next year, we are back."...2022
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• Wolff responds to reverse grids: 'This is not WWE'
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• Wolff admits Mercedes must change car design concept

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has told his engineers to go back to the drawing board after conceding the team's car concept is not good enough to fight for the title this year....2023
• Wolff questions priorities of Ferrari's leadership
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has questioned the priorities of "certain members of the Ferrari team" after it registered its worse qualifying performance of the season at the Belgian Grand Prix.2...2020
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• George Russell and Mercedes enjoying ‘great start’ to 2025 F1 season
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• Mercedes F1 announces a first for the sport ahead of 2025 season

Photo by Alessio Morgese/NurPhoto via Getty Images Toto Wolff and Mercedes F1 announce a new innovation for the 2025 season If you have been following Formula 1 over the past few seasons you have likely seen a common thread from each team’s challengers. Black. The reason? Teams are turning to bare carbon fiber, rather than painted surfaces, as a means of saving weight on their cars. The ne...2025
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• Valtteri Bottas returns to Mercedes F1
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• Lewis Hamilton reflects on ‘emotional’ final F1 season with Mercedes ahead of Abu Dhabi GP

Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images Ahead of the F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton looked back at his years with Mercedes, and an ‘emotional’ final season with the team This weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix marks not just the end of the 2024 Formula 1 season, but also several closing chapters in the sport. Drivers such as Kevin Magnussen, Zhou Guanyu, and Valtteri Bottas will be leaving f...2024
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• Mick Schumacher leaving Mercedes F1 to ‘pursue new opportunities’

Photo by Laurent Cartalade/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images Mercedes reserve driver Mick Schumacher is leaving the team at the end of the season Mick Schumacher is leaving the Mercedes Formula 1 team to “pursue new opportunities,” according to an announcement released by the team ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix. Schumacher spent two years in that role, after being released by Haas after spe...2024
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• Toto Wolff compares 2025 F1 launch event to the NFL Draft

Photo by Zak Mauger/LAT Images Mercedes boss Toto Wolff compared the 2025 F1 launch event to the NFL Draft While the 2024 Formula 1 is still in its final act, plans are already underway for the 2025 campaign. Next year looks to be a transformative season in F1, with Lewis Hamilton moving to Ferrari and the sport entering its final year under the current regulations before new technical di...2024
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