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• Valtteri Bottas won an F1 break for the second season in a row

He might not have a seat on the grid for next season, but Valtteri Bottas remains winning in the game of life Race car drivers are absolutely a different breed. It takes a special type of person to strap themselves into a rocket ship on wheels and push it to the limit, risking life and limb as dozens of other similarly-minded individuals do the same thing around you, pushing themselves to the lim...2024
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• Sauber completes their driver lineup for 2025 F1 season with Gabriel Bortoleto

Photo by Kym Illman/Getty Images Gabriel Bortoleto earns a full-time seat with Sauber Sauber ended months of speculation on Wednesday, filling out their driver lineup for the 2025 Formula 1 season. Welcome to the grid, Gabriel Bortoleto. After announcing back in the sprint that veteran driver Nico Hülkenberg would move to the team for the 2025 season, a year before Sauber becomes the Audi ...2024
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• F1 São Paulo Grand Prix: Storylines to watch as the grid heads to Brazil

Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images A pair of title fights headline the storylines for the F1 São Paulo Grand Prix Four race weekends remain in what has been a thrilling Formula 1 season. And everything is on the line. Unlike last season, when the grid arrived in Brazil for the São Paulo with Max Verstappen having already clinched the Drivers’ Championship, and Red Bull its second straigh...2024
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• Bottas hints at Mercedes return amid uncertainty
Valtteri Bottas has raised the possibility of returning to the Mercedes Formula 1 team in a reserve role if Sauber, the future Audi team, drop him at the end of the season....2024
• Valtteri Bottas would ‘consider’ a return to Mercedes as a reserve driver

Photo by Kym Illman/Getty Images At the F1 Mexico City Grand Prix, Valtteri Bottas admitted that a return to Mercedes as a reserve could be on the table With the 2024 Formula 1 season winding down, there are a few small matters of business left to be decided regarding the 2025 driver grid. One of those seats? The second spot at Sauber alongside Nico Hülkenberg. While the team has already c...2024
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• Charles Leclerc and Ferrari shake up the 2024 F1 season with stunning United States GP win

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images Ferrari tops the list of winners and losers from the F1 United States Grand Prix AUSTIN — The joyful smiles in the paddock told the story of Ferrari’s week in Austin. The team arrived in Texas for the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix facing questions about their car, and whether Ferrari could turn the McLaren-Red Bull duet at the top of the Construct...2024
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• F1 São Paulo Grand Prix: Storylines to watch as the grid heads to Brazil
2024

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• Charles Leclerc and Ferrari shake up the 2024 F1 season with stunning United States GP win
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• McLaren, Mercedes among F1 teams bringing big upgrades to United States Grand Prix

Jay Janner/American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The 2024 F1 season may be winding down but the developmental fight rages on in Austin AUSTIN — The 2024 Formula 1 season may be drawing to a close, but the ongoing development battle shows no signs of slowing down. On Friday all ten F1 teams were required to produce their list of upgrades for the United States Grand Prix an...2024
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• Lando Norris’ pursuit of Max Verstappen leads F1 United States Grand Prix storylines

Photo by Rudy Carezzevoli/Getty Images F1 is back with this week’s United States Grand Prix. Here are the major storylines Formula 1 is back this week, with the United States Grand Prix. After a three-week break, the grid returns to life with the first of three straight races that will see the grid go from Austin to Mexico City, and finally to São Paulo. As the grid roars back to life, th...2024
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• Sergio Pérez sings Franco Colapinto’s praises during F1 Singapore Grand Prix

Photo by Jayce Illman/Getty Images F1’s newest star may have finished outside the points Sunday but he has a new fan in Sergio Pérez After a stunning finish in the points at last weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, his first time ever driving the daunting street circuit, Franco Colapinto came up just short of the points in Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix. Tackling the punishing street circuit a...2024
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• Lando Norris captures pole, but Max Verstappen is lurking at Singapore Grand Prix

Photo by Clive Rose - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images Recapping winners and losers from qualifying at the Singapore Grand Prix, and wondering if this was Daniel Ricciardo’s swan song A hard shunt from Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz Jr. at the start of Q3 left nine drivers remaining, each with perhaps just one shot at glory Saturday night at the Singapore Grand Prix. Only Oscar Piastri an...2024
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• Daniel Ricciardo’s last stand

Photo by Clive Rose - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images The Singapore Grand Prix begins with Daniel Ricciardo facing an uncertain F1 future Daniel Ricciardo’s shocking mid-season return to the Formula 1 grid a year ago had the makings of the latest dream ending in the sport. But as the grid arrived in Singapore for this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, that dream ending seems to have the...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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• Charles Leclerc conquers the Baku streets as Ferrari takes the fight to the field

Photo by Clive Rose - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images Disaster for Lando Norris, disappointment for Red Bull, and pole for Charles Leclerc in Azerbaijan Over the past few Formula 1 race weekends, the discussion has centered on a two-way fight between Red Bull and McLaren for the Constructors’ Championship. Well, it is time to make room at the table for a third team, because Ferrari ha...2024
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• Ferrari’s comeback, Oliver Bearman’s return, and more F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix storylines

Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images F1 heads to Baku with McLaren chasing Red Bull, Lando Norris chasing Max Verstappen, and Sauber chasing their first points of the season What a difference a year makes. The last time the Formula 1 grid was in Baku for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the field looked a lot different than it does at the moment. In 2023 the Azerbaijan Grand Prix fell in April, a...2024
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• Valtteri Bottas won an F1 break for the second season in a row
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• F1 quiz: Do you know when each active driver won their first grand prix?

Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui/Anadolu via Getty Images Each active F1 driver’s first grand prix win, explained In case you missed it, Lando Norris won his first Formula 1 grand prix this past weekend, holding off Max Verstappen to win the Miami Grand Prix. The victory was a long time coming for Norris, and praise quickly came in from around the paddock for the McLaren driver. But that win g...2024
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2024
"Sauber currently has Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas in the fold, but both drivers are set to see their contracts expire at the end of the 2024 campaign."

2023
"The signs were there for a strong weekend from Alfa Romeo on Friday, when both Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas posted the two best times of the day among drivers on the medium compound."

2022
"The Valtteri Bottas of 2022 is a world away from the one of 2018, who almost quit F1 for good after struggling to keep pace with then-Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton."

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
"Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believes Mercedes is clearly favouring Lewis Hamilton over his teammate Valtteri Bottas this year."

2019
"Valtteri Bottas finished fifth at the weekend's Artic Lapland Rally in Finland, winning a stage along the way."

2018
"Valtteri Bottas challenged ESPN to a race on his home turf in Finland."

2017
"Valtteri Bottas beat teammate and 2017 world champion Lewis Hamilton to pole position for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as Mercedes converted its impressive weekend pace into a front-row lockout."

• F1 São Paulo Grand Prix: Storylines to watch as the grid heads to Brazil
2024

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• Valtteri Bottas would ‘consider’ a return to Mercedes as a reserve driver
2024

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• Daniel Ricciardo’s last stand
2024

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• F1 Q&A: Adrian Newey at Aston Martin, Alpine’s future, and the sport’s newest star
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• Valtteri Bottas ‘positive’ regarding his F1 future ahead of Azerbaijan Grand Prix

Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images F1 driver Valtteri Bottas believes the series remains his ‘most likely’ destination for next season With the Formula 1 season winding down, only two spots are left to be confirmed on the grid for the 2025 campaign. One of those spots is at Visa Cash App RB F1 Team, where current driver Daniel Ricciardo and reserve driver Liam Lawson are among the top option...2024
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• Ferrari’s comeback, Oliver Bearman’s return, and more F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix storylines
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• Lando Norris puts the entire F1 grid on notice at the Dutch Grand Prix

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Recapping the winners and losers from the Dutch Grand Prix The detractors did not go away in May. After Lando Norris broke through with his maiden Formula 1 victory in the Miami Grand Prix, shedding the harsh “Lando No-wins” moniker, the detractors still had their lines of criticism. They pointed to an opportune safety car, which gave Norri...2024
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• F1 title fight leads major storylines at the Dutch Grand Prix

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images As F1 comes back from the summer shutdown there are no shortage of storylines 42 points. As Formula 1 returns from its summer shutdown for this week’s Dutch Grand Prix, just 42 points separate Red Bull from McLaren in the Constructors’ Championship standings. Buoyed by a fast race car and a pair of fast drivers, McLaren built off their stro...2024
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• Did Flavio Briatore shine a light on Alpine’s second driver for 2025?

Photo by Vince Mignott/MB Media/Getty Images Speaking on the ‘Formula For Success” podcast new Alpine executive Flavio Briatore talked expectations, drivers, and more As noted earlier this week regarding Valtteri Bottas, the game of Formula 1 driver musical chairs is starting to wind down. Only four seats remain available for 2025, including a spot at Sauber — Bottas’ current team — and sp...2024
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• Predicting the rest of the 2025 F1 driver grid

Photo by Joe Portlock - Formula 1/Formula Motorsport Limited via Getty Images Carlos Sainz Jr.’s decision to drive for Williams cuts the number of available seats down to four. How will they get filled? The cork in the bottle that was Carlos Sainz Jr. has been removed Now we wait to see how that moment impacts the rest of the Formula 1 grid. On the first day of the sport’s annual summer s...2024
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• F1 São Paulo Grand Prix: Storylines to watch as the grid heads to Brazil
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• Charles Leclerc and Ferrari shake up the 2024 F1 season with stunning United States GP win
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• McLaren, Mercedes among F1 teams bringing big upgrades to United States Grand Prix
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• Valtteri Bottas tells SB Nation about ‘Flight of the Valtteri,’ a song created with his biometrics

John David Mercer-Imagn Images SB Nation caught up with Sauber driver Valtteri Bottas ahead of the United States Grand Prix Being a Formula 1 driver is a demanding job. It is a job that extends far beyond simply climbing into the cockpit of a rocket ship on wheels for a few hours on Sundays, requiring hours of physical training, simulation work, the navigation of a grinding schedule that s...2024
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• Lando Norris’ pursuit of Max Verstappen leads F1 United States Grand Prix storylines
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• Mick Schumacher confirmed to be in the running for the second Sauber F1 seat

Photo by Lars Baron - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images Mattia Binotto, the new Audi boss, confirmed that Mick Schumacher is in the running for the second seat at Sauber in 2025 The Formula 1 season is about to return, with next week’s United States Grand Prix. That race week, which includes one of the final three F1 Sprint races on the 2024 calendar, kicks off a tripleheader that will ...2024
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• Sergio Pérez sings Franco Colapinto’s praises during F1 Singapore Grand Prix
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• Lando Norris captures pole, but Max Verstappen is lurking at Singapore Grand Prix
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• Daniel Ricciardo’s last stand
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• F1 Q&A: Adrian Newey at Aston Martin, Alpine’s future, and the sport’s newest star
2024

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• Sauber completes their driver lineup for 2025 F1 season with Gabriel Bortoleto
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• F1 São Paulo Grand Prix: Storylines to watch as the grid heads to Brazil
2024

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• Valtteri Bottas would ‘consider’ a return to Mercedes as a reserve driver
2024

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• Charles Leclerc and Ferrari shake up the 2024 F1 season with stunning United States GP win
2024

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• McLaren, Mercedes among F1 teams bringing big upgrades to United States Grand Prix
2024

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• Valtteri Bottas tells SB Nation about ‘Flight of the Valtteri,’ a song created with his biometrics
2024

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• Lando Norris’ pursuit of Max Verstappen leads F1 United States Grand Prix storylines
2024

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• Lando Norris captures pole, but Max Verstappen is lurking at Singapore Grand Prix
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• Daniel Ricciardo’s last stand
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• F1 Q&A: Adrian Newey at Aston Martin, Alpine’s future, and the sport’s newest star
2024

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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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• Horner: It's obvious Mercedes favours Hamilton over Bottas
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• Valtteri Bottas unveils incredible Pac-Man helmet for the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix
Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images Bottas’ helmet is one of many sleek designs for F1’s marquee event The Monaco Grand Prix is the marquee event of the Formula 1 season, which often leads to drivers pulling out all the stops both on the track, and off it. Perhaps the clubhouse leader in the helmet category this week is Valtteri Bottas. The Alfa Romeo driver unveiled his incredible Pac-Man in...2023
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• Bottas beats Hamilton to pole as Ferrari flops in Austria
Valtteri Bottas secured pole position for the opening race of the 2020 Formula One season, beating teammate Lewis Hamilton to pole position by 0.012s, while Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel failed to make it out of the second qualifying session....2020
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• Mercedes 'opened the sea' for Verstappen at T1

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• Valtteri Bottas sums up the end of FP2 perfectly
The rain finally came during practice for the Canadian Grand Prix, and Valtteri Bottas set the scene perfectly Friday featured a bizarre pair of practice sessions ahead of the 2023 Canadian Grand Prix. The first practice session drew to a close after just four minutes, as Formula 1 officials dealt with a failure of the track’s CCTV system. Race officials in Montreal could not fix the issue, and t...2023
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• Bottas says Mercedes was 'sleeping' when Verstappen got ahead
Valtteri Bottas said Mercedes left the door wide open for Max Verstappen to win the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix....2020
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• Ocon on his new start at Renault, his relationship with Verstappen and how close he came to a Mercedes drive
New Renault driver Esteban Ocon talks to ESPN about his year on the sidelines, how close he came to taking Valtteri Bottas' drive at Mercedes this year and how he thinks he stacks up against the likes of Verstappen and Leclerc....2020
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• How ‘F1 Manager 24’ ups the realism, and hooks you in from the start

The third installment of the ‘F1 Manager’ series lets you channel your inner Toto Wolff With Formula 1 heading into the annual summer shutdown, many single-seater racing fans wonder how they will get their F1 fix these next few weeks. Thankfully, Frontier Developments is here to help. The British gaming company released F1 Manager 24 last week, the third installment in the company’s F1 Manager se...2024
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• Valtteri Bottas won an F1 break for the second season in a row
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• Sauber completes their driver lineup for 2025 F1 season with Gabriel Bortoleto
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• F1 São Paulo Grand Prix: Storylines to watch as the grid heads to Brazil
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• Valtteri Bottas would ‘consider’ a return to Mercedes as a reserve driver
2024

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• Charles Leclerc and Ferrari shake up the 2024 F1 season with stunning United States GP win
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• Valtteri Bottas tells SB Nation about ‘Flight of the Valtteri,’ a song created with his biometrics
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• Lando Norris’ pursuit of Max Verstappen leads F1 United States Grand Prix storylines
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• Mick Schumacher confirmed to be in the running for the second Sauber F1 seat
2024

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• Sergio Pérez sings Franco Colapinto’s praises during F1 Singapore Grand Prix
2024

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• Lando Norris captures pole, but Max Verstappen is lurking at Singapore Grand Prix
2024

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• Sauber completes their driver lineup for 2025 F1 season with Gabriel Bortoleto
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• Daniel Ricciardo’s last stand
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• F1 Q&A: Adrian Newey at Aston Martin, Alpine’s future, and the sport’s newest star
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• Ferrari’s comeback, Oliver Bearman’s return, and more F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix storylines
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• Lando Norris puts the entire F1 grid on notice at the Dutch Grand Prix
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• F1 title fight leads major storylines at the Dutch Grand Prix
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• 11 burning questions for the second half of the 2024 F1 season

Photo by Kym Illman/Getty Images The second half of the 2024 F1 season is shaping up to be one for the memory books. Here is what to watch for The second half of the 2024 Formula 1 season is here. The first half was filled with twists and turns that we did not see coming, such as Lando Norris’ first win, Charles Leclerc finally tasting victory at home, and a Mercedes back-to-back to close ...2024
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• 7 burning questions for the British Grand Prix

Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images F1 is coming off a thrilling Austrian Grand Prix, but what awaits the grid at historic Silverstone? One of the most climactic moments in recent Formula 1 memory took place just a few short days ago when an on-track battle between Lando Norris and Max Verstappen — that has been brewing for weeks — finally boiled over. A collision between the two on Lap 64 of...2024
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• Max Verstappen roars past Lando Norris again in F1 Sprint Qualifying

Photo by Bryn Lennon - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images F1 Sprint Qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix sees another Lando Norris-Max Verstappen fight shaping up The roar told the story Following the checkered flag in SQ3, it looked as if McLaren had locked out the front row. Oscar Piastri put his MCL38 on provisional pole with a banger of a lap, only to see Lando Norris nip him with ...2024
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• Lando Norris’ ‘perfect’ lap snares pole from Max Verstappen at F1 Spanish Grand Prix

Photo by Mark Sutton - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images A thrilling qualifying session at the Spanish Grand Prix illustrates just how tight the F1 field is in 2024 “Lando Norris with perhaps one of the finest laps he’s turned in a Formula 1 car.” That was the description from Alex Jacques in the commentary box on F1TV after the checkered flag flew at the end of qualifying. And if Satur...2024
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