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After three thrilling races, Formula 1 heads to Budapest for the Hungarian Grand Prix, the final event before the championship’s traditional summer break.
Still riding high after a thrilling German Grand Prix at Hockenheim last weekend, the Formula 1 paddock makes the short hop over to Budapest this weekend for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
The 2019 Formula 1 season reached its half-way stage as the German Grand Prix delivered one of the best races of recent times with a wet and wild spectacle.
Formula 1 is not known for its underdog stories. It is unforgiving, brutal, often callous. And nobody knows that better than Daniil Kvyat.
- Max Verstappen claimed the seventh victory of his F1 career in style as he capitalised on mistakes for a number of his rivals to win a wet-dry thriller at Hockenheim.
On a weekend where the Netflix camera crew has seemingly been more present than ever, it was perhaps fitting that the German Grand Prix encapsulated the meaning of ‘drive to survive’ in Formula 1.
It was difficult not to feel nostalgic on Saturday when one of the most dominant and spectacular cars in Formula 1 history, the Ferrari F2004, took to the track at Hockenheim for a special demonstration run.
- Lewis Hamilton scored the 87th pole position of his Formula 1 career in Saturday’s qualifying session at Hockenheim, edging out Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by three-tenths of a second in the final Q3 fight.
On a weekend where things were shaping up for a three-team fight for pole position, such a thrilling prospect was snatched away as Ferrari saw its 2019 plight plummet to a new low.
- Ferrari took a one-two finish in both FP1 and FP2 at Hockenheim on Friday, with Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc each taking a turn at the head of the field. Leclerc ended the day fastest overall with a best lap of 1m13.449s, pipping Vettel by one-tenth of a second.
- Mercedes kicked off the weekend celebrating its 125 years in motorsport by fully unveiling its revised car livery for the weekend.
Standing on the grid at Hockenheim ahead of last year’s German Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel would have sensed he was on the verge of a big opportunity.
Mercedes heads into this weekend’s German Grand Prix looking to maintain its 100 percent winning run at Hockenheim in Formula 1’s V6 hybrid era.
Formula 1 returns to Hockenheim this weekend for the German Grand Prix, but the future of the event beyond this year is unclear.
After a pair of thrilling races in Austria and Great Britain, Formula 1 heads to Hockenheim for the German Grand Prix this weekend. With the future of the event uncertain beyond this year, it could be the last race to take place in Germany for some time.
When most young drivers make their debut in Formula 1, a typical question asked is: “Who did you look up to?” or “who was your hero in racing?” And normally, you can expect the same kind of answers.
Lewis Hamilton delighted his home crowd with a record sixth British Grand Prix victory as Silverstone celebrated its newly-secured Formula 1 future with a classic race.
The doom and gloom surrounding the state of modern Formula 1 seemed so very far away through the first half of Sunday’s British Grand Prix, as a number of spectacular on-track battles showed the sport as its very best.
- 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.