Hamilton’s Mercedes team won the constructors’ title for an unprecedented eighth successive year but Verstappen, 24, made sure it was not another double.
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Seven-time world champion Hamilton’s 97th grand prix triumph extended his early season lead over Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in the Formula One drivers’ standings to eight points.
The news was confirmed by the all-conquering team this morning after months of deliberation and delay, and with just over a month before pre-season testing gets underway.
The 35-year-old this year became the most successful F1 driver of all time after equalling Ferrari great Michael Schumacher’s record seven titles and beating the German’s 91 race wins.
Thousands of Nigerians have been demonstrating for several days against a police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, which has now been disbanded.
Speaking to reporters at the British Grand Prix, Brown said the Spaniard would travel to the US next week.
Bottas, who led every lap in a peerless performance, crossed the line just 0.6 seconds clear of his Mercedes team-mate, but world champion Hamilton was penalised after he was involved in a crash with Red Bull driver Alex Albon in the closing stages.
Michael Schumacher is “conscious” after stem-cell treatment and has been visited by former Ferrari boss Jean Todt at the Paris hospital, a report claims.
The German seven-times world champion suffered serious head injuries in a 2013 skiing accident in the French Alps and has not been seen in public since
Charles Leclerc ended Ferrari’s nine-year wait for victory at its home circuit as he held off the Mercedes duo to win Formula One’s Italian Grand Prix on Sunday.
That is despite the fact the 20-year-old son of F1 legend Michael Schumacher made his F1 test debut for Ferrari in Bahrain on Tuesday.
Five-times world champion Lewis Hamilton won the Bahrain Grand Prix for Mercedes on Sunday after engine trouble dashed Charles Leclerc’s hopes.
The Mercedes driver joined the late Argentine great, Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher, as the only men to win at least five titles after finishing fourth in Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix.
Formula One world champion, Lewis Hamilton, has defended Sebastian Vettel after the Ferrari driver’s title hopes effectively ended in Japan at the weekend.
Michael Schumacher will reportedly be moved to a luxury home once owned by Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.
Vettel won the Australian Grand Prix as the Mercedes engine’s infamous ‘party mode’ that delivered Hamilton a blistering pole lap on Saturday could do little this time around.
He won nine of the 20 races, including “grand-slam” successes in China, Canada and Great Britain where he took pole position, led every lap and set fastest lap on his way to victory.
“Some of my team were held up at gunpoint last (Friday) night leaving the circuit here in Brazil. Gun shots fired, gun held at one’s head. This is so upsetting to hear,” the four-time world champion said on Twitter on Saturday.
Hamilton clinched his fourth title in Mexico with two races to spare on Sunday, becoming the most successful British driver of all time, but he reassured reporters that he was far from done.
The 17-year-old Schumacher has signed a deal with Prema Powerteam, where he will follow in the footsteps of Williams’ F1 rookie Lance Stroll