Lewis Hamilton has hit back at suggestions he was wrong to ignore team orders during Sunday’s Hungarian grand prix. Niki Lauda, who after Hamilton’s qualifying fire had cheered the Briton ...
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Raikkonen eyes ‘better’ Ferrari for 2015
Kimi Raikkonen was looking ahead to 2015 rather than seeing Sunday’s Hungarian grand prix as the start of an immediate Ferrari revival. After an uncompetitive first half of 2014, the ...
Read More »Mercedes to rethink team orders after Hamilton defiance
Mercedes has moved to put the intensifying battle between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg behind closed doors. “Corporate answer,” boss Toto Wolff smiled late on Sunday, when the extent of ...
Read More »Briatore to inject more ‘show’ into F1 – reports
Bernie Ecclestone sees friend Flavio Briatore as the key to rescuing formula one’s flagging ‘show’. That is the claim of publications including the Spanish sports daily AS, in the wake ...
Read More »Vettel refuses to stamp out Mercedes rumours
The big paddock rumour in Hungary is that Mercedes has made a move to sign Sebastian Vettel. The speculation was even pushed along by Red Bull’s Dr Helmut Marko, who ...
Read More »Hamilton’s engineer breaks ribs in cycling crash
Toto Wolff was not the only senior member of Mercedes’ management team hurt in a cycling pileup this week. In a team-building exercise along the Danube river on Tuesday, the ...
Read More »Alonso could be free to leave Ferrari – sources
Fernando Alonso could be contractually free to walk away from Ferrari. Technically, the Spaniard remains under contract to the struggling Maranello team until the end of 2016. “I’m sure he ...
Read More »Lauda apologises for calling Ferrari car ‘sh*t’
Niki Lauda has swiftly hit reverse, after using an expletive to describe the cars fielded in 2014 by Mercedes’ grandee rivals McLaren and Ferrari. “McLaren has the same engine as ...
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