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      Hamilton laments ‘worst season ever’ after retiring from Australian Grand Prix

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 17:43

    • Mercedes driver admits this season is ‘worse than 2009’
    • Team principle Toto Wolff says lack of progress has been brutal

    Lewis Hamilton described the worst Formula One season start of his career as tough on the spirit and warned it was a challenge leaving him in danger of just going through the motions, after he and Mercedes endured a dismal weekend at the Australian Grand Prix.

    The seven-time champion’s team principal at Mercedes, Toto Wolff, was equally blunt in his assessment, describing it as brutally painful, conceding it was a fair question to ask if it was time he stepped down from the role and that he felt neither positive nor optimistic about his team’s situation.

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      ‘Messes with the mind’: Hamilton hits 14-year low in Australian GP qualifying

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 10:18

    • Mercedes driver finishes 11th in Melbourne qualifying
    • ‘There is a long list of things to fix. Our car is on a knife edge’

    Lewis Hamilton said the inconsistency of his Mercedes “messes with the mind” following his worst qualifying performance in Australia for 14 years. Hamilton, who boasts a record eight pole positions at Melbourne’s Albert Park, will start Sunday’s 58-lap race from a disappointing 11th after he was eliminated in Q2.

    Max Verstappen took pole – his third in as many races – as he bids to complete a record-equalling 10 victories, with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz joining him on the front row. Hamilton qualified eighth in Saudi Arabia a fortnight ago, and ninth the week before in Bahrain.

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      Max Verstappen blitzes to Australian GP pole as Lewis Hamilton slumps

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 06:52

    • Champion secures 35th pole, with Carlos Sainz taking second
    • Lewis Hamilton 11th in final Melbourne Grand Prix for Mercedes

    Max Verstappen has his sights set on a third-straight win to open 2024, with the defending Formula One world champion claiming pole for the Australian Grand Prix.

    The Red Bull superstar blitzed qualifying on Saturday as he aims to back up last year’s race victory at Albert Park, securing the 35th pole of his career. Verstappen finished in front of resurgent Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz and his Red Bull teammate Sergio Pérez.

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      Max Verstappen cruises to dominant victory in Saudi Arabian F1 Grand Prix

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 9 March - 18:34

    • Red Bull record one-two finish for second race in succession
    • Bearman impresses for Ferrari and finishes in points in seventh

    Max Verstappen won the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix from pole position on Saturday as Red Bull continued their dominant start to the Formula One season with a second one-two in as many races.

    Mexico’s Sergio Pérez was runner-up under the Jeddah floodlights, last year’s winner taking the chequered flag 13.643 seconds behind his triple world champion teammate, with Charles Leclerc third for Ferrari.

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      Max Verstappen remains tight-lipped over support for Red Bull’s Horner

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 28 February - 15:02

    • World champion spoke before decision over team principal
    • Hamilton says Horner verdict an ‘important moment’ for F1

    Max Verstappen has declined to deliver his unequivocal support for Christian Horner while the team principal remains under investigation for alleged inappropriate behaviour, a decision on which is expected shortly in the build up to the opening race of the season in Bahrain this weekend.

    The inquiry began on 1 February after a complaint made by a female employee of Red Bull Racing made the allegations to the team’s parent company Red Bull GmbH. No details of the allegations have been released other than it is understood they refer to alleged “controlling” behaviour by Horner, who has emphatically denied any wrongdoing.

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      All eyes on Bahrain as F1 arrives with more plotlines than a soap opera | Giles Richards

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 26 February - 16:34

    Curtain raiser will provide welcome return to car racing over speculation surrounding the drama in season build-up

    As Formula One heads into the opening weekend of the new season there will doubtless be something of a sigh of relief in welcoming the relatively straightforward business of cars racing after one of the most turbulent and dramatic close seasons F1 has experienced in decades. Finally, some spectacle over speculation.

    When the lights go out in Bahrain on Saturday, the real form for 2024 will be on display as the testing phoney war comes to a close. Yet, even then, the aftershocks of the events of the last month will continue to resound across the longest season in F1’s history at 24 races and with an 8 December finish.

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      Lewis Hamilton intent on writing ‘new chapter’ in career with Ferrari

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 23 February - 15:10

    • Hamilton described leaving Mercedes as his ‘hardest decision’
    • Seven-time world champion will join Ferrari in 2025

    Lewis Hamilton said his Mercedes exit to join Ferrari is because he believes it is time to write “a new chapter” in his record-breaking career.

    Hamilton was speaking for the first time at length since his blockbuster move to the Italian giants in 2025 was confirmed earlier this month.

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      Lewis Hamilton admits final Mercedes season will be ‘emotional and surreal’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 14 February - 11:58

    • Driver insists he will be fully focused on Mercedes in 2024
    • Team have adopted entirely new approach in chasing Red Bull

    Lewis Hamilton has admitted he finds it an emotional and surreal experience to be starting his last season with Mercedes after he announced he was to join Ferrari in 2025.

    The British driver said he was proud and fully focused on this year at the launch of Mercedes’s new car, the W15, which he believes will represent a step forward for the team, at Silverstone on Wednesday.

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      Ferrari’s Vasseur excited by Hamilton move but has ‘difficult’ call with Wolff

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 13 February - 18:19

    • Hamilton shocked Mercedes by deciding to leave team in 2025
    • Ferrari team principal describes move as ‘huge opportunity’

    Fred Vasseur has described the signing of Lewis Hamilton as a huge opportunity for Ferrari but the team principal admitted he had a very difficult conversation with his Mercedes counterpart, Toto Wolff, after poaching his driver.

    Two weeks ago the seven-time world champion shocked Mercedes , with whom he has driven since 2013 and won six titles, by announcing he would be joining Ferrari in 2025. Wolff admitted he was caught by surprise given Hamilton had signed a new contract with Mercedes in August and the pair had been talking about their future at Mercedes as recently as Christmas.

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