Duncan Hamilton

Mercedes has won all seven races so far this season and Hamilton has taken five of those victories, with the most recent coming in controversial circumstances last weekend in Canada.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Mercedes had doubts Hamilton would start, finish Canadian GP<br><br><br>Sebastian Vettel's lost victory in Montreal left the lead Ferrari driver 62 points adrift of Hamilton, who is adamant ...

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As reported by Motorsport.com earlier this week, the FIA had invited teams to a get together at its headquarters to try to break the deadlock over the signing off of plans for a 2021 overhaul.<br>While there had been some support of draft proposals presented to teams before the Canadian Grand Prix, there remained cause for concern about several areas of the proposals.<br>Ferrari team principal ...

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The leak was discovered after qualifying, however, the car then went into parc ferme and the crew left the circuit on Saturday evening not knowing the source of the leak, or how serious it was.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Mercedes had doubts Hamilton would start, finish Canadian GP<br><br><br>"We had some issues with Lewis's car before the race and this actually became apparent after qualifying," ...

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Hamilton claimed his fifth victory in seven grands prix this season after a race-long battle with Sebastian Vettel, who won on the road but was dropped to second because of a time penalty for an incident with Hamilton.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Canadian GP: Hamilton wins after controversial Vettel penalty<br>Why Canada left Vettel facing a harsher reality<br><br><br>Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff ...

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Vettel received a five-second penalty for rejoining the track unsafely and forcing a driver off the track after he went wide over the grass while running just ahead of Hamilton.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Analysis: The reason Vettel was punished in Canada<br>Furious Vettel hits out at "blind" Canadian GP stewards<br><br><br>The penalty meant that the Mercedes driver just has to sit behind the ...

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Vettel led from start to finish in Montreal but was demoted to second by a penalty picked up after running wide at the first chicane and almost colliding with Hamilton as he rejoined.<br>That handed Hamilton his fifth win of the season and maintained Mercedes' 100% victory record after seven races.<br>Vettel had a big enough advantage to hold on to second, as Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc ...

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Hamilton had qualified second for the race in Montreal, with Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel having taken pole position.<br>But the team found itself needing some extra work to get to the bottom of an hydraulic leak on the car that it discovered on Saturday night.<br>As Giorgio Piola's exclusive photograph shows, the team had to remove Hamilton's engine and floor on Sunday morning to try to find ...

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Hamilton leads the championship after four wins from the first six races, and teammate Valtteri Bottas has won the other two grands prix to give Mercedes a perfect record so far.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Canadian GP: Vettel beats Hamilton to end pole drought<br><br><br>Ferrari, by contrast, has only scored four podiums and Vettel's Montreal pole is his first in a so-far tricky season for the ...

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The Ferrari driver was second fastest after the first runs in Q3, but put in a superb lap to jump Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton and take top spot by 0.206s.<br>Hamilton did improve on his second run, but only by 0.047s, which was more than enough to ensure he retained a front-row starting position.<br>Charles Leclerc, in the second Ferrari, had a slow run in the final sector on his final lap and ...

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Hamilton, who had set the pace in the opening Friday practice from Valtteri Bottas, lost control of his W10 on exit of Turn 9 when running the medium tyre early on in FP2.<br>He slid off into the outside wall, making contact with his right-rear tyre - and while he then successfully brought his W10 back to the pits despite the damage, Mercedes was forced to change the rear suspension and he did not ...

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Morning pacesetter Hamilton had been quickest using medium tyres during the early runs, but when he changed to softs he lost the rear of his car mid-way through the Turn 8/9 chicane.<br>The Mercedes slewed sideways and smacked the wall with its right rear wheel, leaving Hamilton limping back to the pits with a puncture.<br>That was only part of the damage, and Hamilton missed the rest of the ...

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Hamilton used medium tyres to set a 1m12.767s, lapping 0.147s faster than teammate Valtteri Bottas managed on the soft-compound Pirellis. That left Mercedes almost a second clear of the best Ferrari and Red Bull could manage, as it gave its new-specification engine its debut in FP1.<br>The majority of the drivers completed their initial runs on medium-compound Pirellis but Mercedes opted to use ...

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Hamilton has spoken regularly about the gratitude he has for the efforts made years ago by his father and former manager Anthony to get him into karting despite the family not being wealthy.<br>Now a five-time F1 world champion, having benefitted from earning McLaren-Mercedes support in karts, Hamilton wants to help underfunded aspiring drivers when his career is over. <br>Asked in the build-up to ...

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Hamilton was speaking to US talk show host David Letterman before the start of the 2019 season and appears in an episode of the second season of Letterman’s Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, which was released on the online streaming service on Friday.<br>The five-time world champion was interviewed by Letterman in his studio in the States during the off-season and then again ...

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Mercedes has dominated the start of the 2019 season, winning all six races and scoring two podium finishes at every grand prix.<br>Hamilton won the previous race in Monaco after surviving race-long pressure from Red Bull's Max Verstappen, though his task was made harder by Mercedes later admitting it had put him on the wrong tyres.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Was Hamilton's Monaco win ever in real ...

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Mercedes planned a double-stacked stop for Hamilton and Bottas when the safety car came out early in the Formula 1 race, and the Finn backed off to give himself a gap and delay Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel, who were behind him.<br>However, Mercedes strategy director James Vowles has revealed that on leaving the pits Hamilton hit an airgun, and recovering from that triggered a slight delay in ...

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Webber, who won the race in 2010 and 2012 for Red Bull, acknowledged that it must have been hard for Hamilton to run ahead of his main rivals on tyres that were clearly past their best.<br>“It’s a horrible feeling, even though you’ve got absolute track position,” the Australian told Motorsport.com. “He knew he was never going to pit, but it was definitely a very, very tortuous way to win ...

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Hamilton's Monaco Grand Prix victory moved him 17 points clear of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas in the title battle.<br>It came after only his second pole position of the season, having admitted during the previous race weekend in Spain that he was struggling with one-lap performance so far.<br>Hamilton said: "I definitely feel that it's been quite an average performance from myself. Maybe ...

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Verstappen ran third early on but moved into second place when Red Bull beat Mercedes in the pitstops and released him a nose ahead of Valtteri Bottas, who he made contact with in the pitlane.<br>That unsafe release and collision earned Verstappen a five-second time penalty, which he said spurred him on to pressure race leader Lewis Hamilton relentlessly in an attempt to overtake and establish a ...

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Mercedes said Hamilton "saved" the team after it chose to switch him to medium tyres during an early pitstop under the safety ca and completed 64 flying laps on the mediums, with his rivals being on the more durable hard compound.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Monaco GP: Hamilton wins despite tyre drama<br>Hamilton planned to "crash or finish" in "hardest" race<br>Verstappen was "really reserved" in ...

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Verstappen finished second on the road after his attempt to pass Hamilton in the closing laps at the chicane saw contact made but the two drivers continue in the same positions.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Monaco GP: Hamilton wins despite tyre drama<br><br><br>Verstappen has been carrying a five-second time penalty after an unsafe release into the path of Valtteri Bottas at his pitstop under the ...

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The German car manufacturer went it alone in moving on to the medium compound during the early safety car that was called out to clear debris left on the track from Charles Leclerc's flailing tyre.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Monaco GP: Hamilton wins despite tyre drama<br>Hamilton planned to "crash or finish" in "hardest" race<br><br><br>It decided against switching to hards as the pursuing Red Bull ...

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Hamilton led the way from pole but was forced into an early stop by a safety car for debris left by Charles Leclerc's accident at La Rascasse.<br>The reigning champion was equipped with medium tyres during his sole pitstop, which committed him to a 67-lap stint on the C4 compound – while his rivals behind had taken on fresh sets of hard rubber.<br>Hamilton began to struggle with his tyres well ...

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Hamilton resisted more than 60 laps of pressure from Verstappen to hold on to victory despite having to manage softer tyres than his pursuers.<br>As Verstappen was not able to get past the Mercedes and edge clear – despite a late dive at the chicane two laps from the end – he fell from second to fourth at the flag because of a five-second time penalty.<br>Verstappen picked that up for an ...

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