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.
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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.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has treated his mother to a brand new Mercedes as the Juventus star celebrated Mother’s Day on Sunday.
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.
Lewis Hamilton delivered a crushing performance to win in China as Ferrari used team orders to help Sebastian Vettel finish on the podium.
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.
Valtteri Bottas has signed a one-year contract extension with Mercedes to ensure that he will remain with the team for the 2019 season.
Hamilton is currently participating in his sixth campaign with Mercedes, with world titles being won in three of the last four seasons, but the British driver’s deal had been due to expire at the end of the year.
The Mercedes driver remained calm and composed en route to a comfortable win in the first French GP for a decade, finishing ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen.
“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 Mercedes driver started from pole position but was forced into a chasing position from the lights after his championship rival enjoyed the better getaway off the front row to nose ahead at the start
Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton was second with team mate Valterri Bottas in third
The German claimed his first win since the Singapore GP in September 2015
The battle is slated for Sunday
Mercedes team boss, Toto Wolff, now faces the task of finding a suitable successor to Rosberg