Duncan Hamilton, F1 driver

In the closing stages of the Suzuka race, one-stopping George Russell was running in fifth place, ahead of Lewis Hamilton, as the fast-charging Ferrari of Carlos Sainz closed in on them from behind. While Hamilton was on fresher tyres, there was no immediate call for Russell to move aside for his team-mate – which prompted some frustrations from the seven-time world champion over the ...

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The pair were running close together on track in fifth and sixth in the closing stages of the Suzuka race as the fast-charging Sainz closed up behind them.Hamilton, who was on better tyres, was eventually allowed past Russell, but was then immediately ordered to slow down to try to keep Russell within DRS range so he would not be such a sitting duck against Sainz on the straights.This came just ...

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After a "nightmare" Friday, Hamilton was much happier with his W14 thanks to overnight changes, but he still faced a tricky balance come qualifying.As high as fourth in Q2, Hamilton took seventh place in Q3, immediately ahead of team-mate George Russell.The outcome clearly benchmarked the Mercedes as the fourth-best car at Suzuka after the Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari.Hamilton admitted that he ...

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Hamilton made the comments in the wake of an admission by the stewards of last weekend's Singapore GP that they got it wrong when they chose to give Max Verstappen a reprimand for blocking Yuki Tsunoda in Q2.Verstappen also received a reprimand for stopping at the pit exit while waiting to create his gap, with a queue of cars behind him.Usually, impeding triggers an automatic three-place penalty ...

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Red Bull suffered a mysterious lack of performance at last weekend's Singapore race, which led to both drivers dropping out of qualifying in the second phase as neither Max Verstappen nor Sergio Perez could improve on their final Q2 laps.Perez had stated that Suzuka "should be one of the best circuits" for the RB19 package, which has been an exceptionally strong car in corners that require ...

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With team-mate George Russell crashing out on the final lap at Marina Bay last weekend, chasing team-mate Hamilton claimed the final spot on the podium after the duo's aggressive late switch to medium tyres in a bid to challenge for victory.But as Hamilton took to the podium alongside race winner Carlos Sainz and runner-up Lando Norris, the TV cameras picked out the celebrating Ferrari and McLaren ...

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The seven-time world champion ended up 0.501s down on polesitter Carlos Sainz at the Marina Bay track, while team-mate George Russell split the Ferraris to qualify on the front row.The qualifying battle between the Mercedes drivers has been closely fought in 2023, with Russell inching ahead 8-7 in Singapore.Hamilton scored the team's only pole position of the year in Hungary, his first since 2021 ...

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The subject of a DRS zone in the new section of track, where a longer straight has temporarily replaced four corners, first emerged in the summer.The matter was complicated by a kink early in the straight, the crown on the road, and the bumpy nature of the circuit, all factors that meant adding a DRS zone was not an automatic decision.In June, the FIA asked teams for their feedback from ...

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Marko, a motorsport advisor for Red Bull, caused a stir after the Italian Grand Prix when he blamed Sergio Perez’s fluctuating form on his ethnicity.He told Red Bull’s own Servus TV channel: “We know that he has problems in qualifying, he has fluctuations in form. He is South American and he is just not as completely focused in his head as Max (Verstappen) is or as Sebastian (Vettel)."As ...

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Red Bull has won every race in 2023, with Verstappen currently on a record run of 10 consecutive grand prix victories after his Monza triumph two weeks ago.Hamilton praised Verstappen and Red Bull's chief technical officer Adrian Newey for the "exceptional job" that they have done this year.The final eight races of the season include two street circuits, three sprint weekends and several venues ...

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The German manufacturer and the seven-time world champion ended months of speculation ahead of the Italian Grand Prix when they announced that they were extending their commitment to each other until at least the end of 2025. There had been some hope of getting the new deal sorted out earlier in the year, but the issue dragged. The hold-up even served to fuel speculation that Hamilton may not ...

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Prompted by an interview with ex-F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone earlier this year, plus archive footage of late FIA race director Charlie Whiting, Massa believes F1 and the governing body were aware of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix ‘crashgate’ scandal in time to take action before the championship was decided.Former Ferrari and Williams racer Massa says he is developing a subsequent legal case to ...

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Hamilton, who has won in Singapore four times, believes that his team's high-downforce package will work well.In July, he took pole position in Hungary, another venue that played to the strengths of the Mercedes."I feel like this [Monza] might be the worst one for us," he said after the Italian race. "Singapore is all high downforce and, when we put our high downforce wing on, we generally are a ...

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Mercedes had another difficult weekend at Monza, where Ferrari was clearly a step ahead and the W14 was the third-fastest car.George Russell and Hamilton eventually finished fifth and sixth as they showed an obvious top-speed handicap.Hamilton's life has been made harder of late by a couple of difficult qualifying sessions, with the seven-time champion starting only 13th at Zandvoort and eighth at ...

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Hamilton made a rare error in the Italian Grand Prix when he accidentally interlocked wheels with Oscar Piastri at the second chicane in their fight for position and they made contact.The incident damaged Piastri's front wing, forcing him into the pits for a replacement, and it earned Hamilton a five-second penalty for having caused a collision.Hamilton came on the team radio to explain that ...

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Hamilton was coming through the field on an alternate tyre strategy, attacking McLaren's Piastri for eighth on his fresher mediums on lap 41.Hamilton passed Piastri on the inside of the second chicane, but squeezed the Australian towards the grass, his right rear tyre making contact with Piastri's front wing. After both drivers took to the escape road Piastri had to pit for a new front wing ...

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Hamilton has triggered much debate over the Italian Grand Prix weekend after suggesting that Verstappen’s success in F1 has been easier to achieve because he has not faced a bigger challenge from his team’s second car.Speaking to Sky Sports F1 ahead of the Monza weekend, Hamilton said: “When I qualified half a second, six tenths ahead of Valtteri [Bottas], they [the media] didn’t say the ...

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Hamilton and Mercedes signed an agreement for the 2024 and 2025 seasons, that will extend his stay at Brackley, where he won six of his seven world titles, to 13 years.Hamilton previously hinted at being happy to stay in F1 for a number of years, but in the end both parties only settled on a fresh two-year-deal.According to Wolff, the shorter-term deal gives both parties flexibility for the ...

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Barring a shock twist such as injury or worse, Hamilton intends to extend his time driving at Mercedes in F1 through the 2024 and 2025 seasons – in the process competing in 13 seasons. That is two more than the current record of 11 which he currently shares with Michael Schumacher, after the German raced with Ferrari between 1996 and 2006. Hamilton already leads in terms of record number of ...

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Both Hamilton and George Russell were confirmed as staying with the Brackley squad for the next two seasons, as they seek to renew Mercedes' challenges for the title after the past season and a half has yielded just one win.The extension to 2025 will keep Hamilton at the team for a 13th season, having joined the team for the 2013 season and embarking on a tremendous run of success that yielded six ...

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Hamilton's contract with the team where he has raced since 2013 was set to run out at the end of this year, but he has long been expected to complete an extension.Russell is understood to have already been contracted to race with Mercedes until the end of the 2024 campaign as part of the long-term deal he signed to join the team back in 2021, but the announcement made on Thursday at the 2023 ...

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On Sunday, Hamilton recovered from a disappointing qualifying session by moving from a lowly 13th grid spot to sixth.But the seven-time world champion's race could have been a lot better if he and Mercedes hadn't been on the wrong side of an early pitstop call.Rain arrived right after the start of the Zandvoort race, with the Mercedes drivers among the cars staying out too long on slicks, which ...

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The stewards have ruled that the AlphaTauri driver failed to satisfactorily move off the dry racing line through Turn 13 during Q2 while preparing for a push lap.In doing so, he impeded seven-time world champion Hamilton, who subsequently failed to progress into the top 10 shootout and will start 13th.Tsunoda, who ran 14th fastest, will therefore drop provisionally behind Nico Hulkenberg, Zhou ...

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Hamilton only qualified 13th at Zandvoort after struggling to replicate his early Friday pace in his Mercedes W14.The seven-time world champion was caught out by several drivers blocking him on his flying laps, first by both Aston Martins in Q1 and then by AlphaTauri's Yuki Tsunoda in Q2.But afterwards, Hamilton conceded that his Mercedes was just too slow regardless of traffic, missing the cut to ...

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Sergio Perez was fourth in the other Red Bull, nearly half a second slower than Verstappen, with the Ferrari drivers well down the field after eschewing running the soft tyres throughout FP1.Verstappen topped the early running on the harder tyres that made up the opening quarter of the one-hour session – the home hero moving to the top of the timesheets with his first flying lap and then ...

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