George Russell has earned an unusual kind of compliment in Formula 1: he admitted that his Mercedes teammate is currently doing a better job than he is. That teammate is not a veteran champion or an established grand prix operator. Kimi Antonelli is the current...
Replacing Lewis Hamilton was never going to be an ordinary driver-market exercise. Mercedes was losing a seven-time Formula 1 world champion to Ferrari for 2025, and team boss Toto Wolff had two obvious options: find another established star or hand one of the sport’s...
Kimi Antonelli may be the driver collecting the points, managing the tires, and threading a Formula 1 car through corners at speeds that make ordinary road traffic look mildly embarrassed. But former F1 race engineer Rob Smedley believes Peter “Bono” Bonnington has...
Championship leaders are often accused of being in the right place at the right time. Kimi Antonelli has apparently reached that stage already, because former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard has felt the need to explain that Mercedes’ young star is not merely...
The Spanish Grand Prix turned on one of those tiny, frantic moments that Formula 1 loves so dearly: a yellow flag, a driver easing off, and a virtual safety car call that can make or break a race. Mercedes has now explained the rather neat bit of preparation that sits...
