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The Belgian is the official Mercedes reserve driver and would have been an obvious choice to be slotted in after Hamilton was forced out due to coronavirus.<br>Vandoorne was always due to be in Bahrain as part of his regular reserve duties, and he travelled there from Formula E testing unsure exactly of whether or not he would get the chance to race.<br>However, Mercedes opted to go for a ...

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Grosjean ploughed headlong into the barriers after a collision with the AlphaTauri of Daniil Kvyat at the exit of Turn 3, with his Haas splitting in two and immediately bursting into a ball of flame.<br>The French driver was able to emerge from the burning chassis without external assistance and was then helped away by the FIA's Dr. Ian Roberts, while medical car driver Alan van der Merwe grabbed ...

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While F1 and the FIA has pushed hard with its anti-racism message this year, Petrov stirred up feelings in a recent interview when he said he did not support the kneeling protests before races.<br>"Honestly, I don't understand the kneeling ceremony," Petrov said in the interview with Russia sports new site Championat.com.<br>"According to our traditions, people kneel only on two occasions - in a ...

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Vettel joined Ferrari in 2015 with the target of emulating his childhood hero Michael Schumacher and bring another world title to Maranello.<br>The four-time world champion finished runner-up in the championship in both 2017 and 2018 and scored 14 wins with Ferrari, but following a disappointing 18-month period Ferrari decided it would not renew Vettel's expiring contract after the 2020 season and ...

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Just one week after Leclerc qualified fourth and finished third for Ferrari at the British Grand Prix, the Italian outfit has had a more challenging time this time out as it has struggled with the softer compound tyres.<br>Speaking to Sky F1 after the session, Leclerc said he was not partcularly shocked that he had been unable to repeat last weekend’s result.<br>“Surprise? No,” he said. “I ...

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The young Briton, who was spotted helping his team strip down his car after the Hungarian Grand Prix, insists it is not drivers who face the most difficult stress from a run of nine races in 11 weeks.<br>Instead, he says that efforts need to be made to ensure that other personnel – who face much longer hours – are not burned out by everything that is being thrown at them.<br>That is why he ...

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Following concerns from Ferrari’s rivals last year that the team had found a way to get around the fuel flow limits, the FIA opened an investigation in to what the Italian car manufacturer had done.<br>But after being unable to prove that Ferrari had broken the regulations, a secret agreement was made to draw a line under the matter and avoid a damaging public court case.<br>In a bid to ensure ...

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The first eight races of the season include double-headers in Austria and Britain, with more events being considered.<br>Last week, F1's managing director Ross Brawn backed a plan to add some spice to the second races at the Red Bull Ring and Silverstone and any other future twin events via reverse grid qualifying races.<br>However, any rule changes at this stage must receive unanimous support ...

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Mark Sutton has been shooting motorsport for nearly 40 years and is one of the world's leading Formula 1 photographers.<br>The co-founder of Sutton Images followed much of Ayrton Senna's career and took some of the last photographs of the great Brazilian during the terrible 1994 San Marino Grand Prix weekend.<br>He's witnessed plenty of magical moments, so Motorsport.com decided to ask him to ...

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Steven Tee<br>For more than 30 years, Steven has been one of Formula 1’s leading photographers. In that time, the MD and chief photographer of LAT, now part of Motorsport Images, has witnessed plenty of great moments firsthand.<br>Now seemed like a good time to ask him to select some of the images that mean the most to him – and tell us why they are so special. So, here are his 15 selected ...

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Senna took pole position – the 64th of his career – thanks to his time in Friday qualifying. This was fortunate for two reasons: on Saturday, the track was much slower and he’d spun at Revolver corner, leaving him 24th fastest in that session. Teammate Damon Hill also spun at the same corner on his second run, and although he topped the session his quickest time on his first run was way off ...

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However, more often than not in F1's history, a driver has failed to defend their title – and, on some occasions, has missed the mark spectacularly through various circumstances.<br>Autosport's Technical Editor Jake Boxall-Legge has five such examples of drivers who not only failed to hit the heights of the championship year, but plummeted down the pecking order dramatically.<br><br>Read ...

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The 300m long building, designed by architects Tilke Engineering, draws inspiration from two of the city's major landmarks: the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long and the Pavilion of the Constellation of Literature.<br>The former is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the latter is regarded as the symbol of the city and, according to race organisers, reflects Vietnam's "rich literary heritage and ...

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Ferrari is the pre-event favourite for its home grand prix but Leclerc only marginally beat Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton to the quickest time in Friday's rain-hit second practice session.<br>Leclerc topped both of the 90-minute sessions but is not convinced that form is "the real picture of everything" because Mercedes' fastest FP2 times came when the track conditions were not at their best.<br>"It's ...

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What should have been a normal pitstop for Benetton driver Jos Verstappen turned into near disaster when petrol sprayed out of the refuelling hose and was ignited on a still hot car.<br>Captured live on television at the time, the drama of the moment has been further sealed by what is now a world-famous photograph of then Benetton pit crew member Paul Seaby captured in the middle of flames as he ...

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