F1 Features

- Lewis Hamilton claimed a record-breaking sixth British Grand Prix victory on Sunday at Silverstone after a Safety Car period allowed him to jump Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas, who led the early part of the race.

As stylish as many of Lewis Hamilton’s British Grand Prix victories have been through his remarkable Formula 1 career, Sunday’s success at Silverstone is likely to be remembered more for its fortune than anything else.

- Valtteri Bottas snapped a two-month pole position drought by topping qualifying for the British Grand Prix on Saturday, edging out Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton by six-thousandths of a second. It marked Bottas’s first pole since the Spanish Grand Prix, and was the 10th of his F1 career.

Prior to Saturday’s session, you had to go all the way back to 2014 for the last time Lewis Hamilton was beaten in qualifying for the British Grand Prix.

- The latest twist in the Rich Energy saga unfolded (as much of it has) on Twitter on Friday when a letter sent by lawyers acting on behalf of Haas F1 was posted to the brand’s account.

Sponsorship in Formula 1 is going through a funny phase right now. While blue-chip brands and big names such as Shell or Heineken remain heavily involved, plenty of new, more niche names are also joining the sport.

- The major story coming out of the paddock on Thursday surrounded Haas title sponsor Rich Energy, which claimed via its Twitter account on Wednesday it had terminated its agreement with the team.

Lewis Hamilton has the chance to become the most successful Formula 1 driver at the British Grand Prix should he win this weekend’s race at Silverstone.

The future of British Grand Prix on the Formula 1 calendar remains unresolved heading into this weekend’s race at Silverstone.

Formula 1 returns to Silverstone for the 2019 British Grand Prix, with the future of the event uncertain beyond this year.

The 2019 Austrian Grand Prix highlighted exactly why we should avoid being so quick to judge Formula 1 races. 

Austria was a weekend that was dominated both on- and off-track by Max Verstappen.

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes – 7

- Max Verstappen claimed the sixth win of his Formula 1 career on Sunday in Austria after a charge through the field, capped off by a late pass on Charles Leclerc to take the win.

Max Verstappen’s fan club has become an ever-present force at grands prix all across Europe in recent years, with Austria perhaps being the race they are most visible, turning the bowl cut out in the middle of the Styrian forests bright orange.

- Charles Leclerc scored the second pole position of his Formula 1 career in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix on Saturday, following his first in Bahrain earlier this year. It was Ferrari’s third pole of the season.

Charles Leclerc’s readiness to lead Ferrari has been one of the big themes early in the 2019 Formula 1 season, with his bright start to life with the Scuderia prompting suggestions he was already better-placed than Sebastian Vettel to fight for the world title.

- The day in Austria started with a meeting between F1, the FIA, all 10 teams, Pirelli and a number of drivers to discuss a possible change back to the 2018 tyres after a number of complaints in the early part of the team.

- The fallout from last Sunday’s tedious French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard continued throughout Thursday’s media briefings in Austria, with a spotlight being placed on F1’s future and where the sport is anticipated to go from 2021 onwards.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Ferrari is in desperate need of sparking its 2019 Formula 1 season into life.

Formula 1 heads to Spielberg for this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, which rounds off the first back-to-back events of the 2019 season.

While even the most hardened Formula 1 fans were resisting the urge to doze off over the closing stages of the French Grand Prix, the race unexpectedly sparked up with a last-lap scrap over the final points places which inadvertently plunged the sport into a fresh controversy.

In what was far from a classic French Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton once again underlined his current superiority in Formula 1. 

In the aftermath of Lewis Hamilton’s dominant victory in Sunday’s French Grand Prix that extended his championship lead and saw him edge ever-closer to Michael Schumacher’s all-time wins record, you would have forgiven the Mercedes driver for a little self-indulgence.