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...
Mercedes has spent years trying to build a Formula 1 lineup that can keep up with the front of the grid. It now appears to have one of those rare and irritatingly pleasant problems: a youngster who is so quick that the team’s chief concern is not pace, but keeping him...
