6:10 AM ET George Russell said Formula One has to learn the safety lessons from Zhou Guanyu’s huge crash at the British Grand Prix, which saw his car vault over a barrier and get stuck in a small gap. Russell and Pierre Gasly were involved in the collision with Zhou, which flipped the Alfa Romeo
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10:48 AM ET SILVERSTONE — A group of protesters breached the track on the opening lap of the British Grand Prix and were on the circuit when cars came past. The protesters managed to get onto the circuit at the Wellington straight, which lies just after the first sequence of corners. In a huge stroke
10:46 AM ET SILVERSTONE, England — The British Grand Prix was suspended before the end of the first lap after two huge collisions involving multiple drivers on the pit straight resulted in Zhou Guanyu’s Alfa Romeo ending up on the wrong side of the tyre barriers at Turn 1. Emergency crews were immediately in attendance,
2:34 PM ET SILVERSTONE, England — Carlos Sainz was surprised to be told he had claimed pole position at the British Grand Prix, an achievement that felt like a long time coming for the Ferrari driver. “Holy s—-,” Sainz said on the radio. “I didn’t expect that one!” It was pole position at the 151st
12:55 PM ET SILVERSTONE – Lewis Hamilton said fans at the British Grand Prix should not boo old rival Max Verstappen after the Dutch driver received a hostile reception at the end of qualifying. Silverstone is the scene of Hamilton and Verstappen’s dramatic collision at last year’s race, an incident which heightened tensions between both
2:03 PM ET SILVERSTONE, U.K. — For three practice sessions and a good part of qualifying, it looked like Lewis Hamilton might put himself on the front row of the grid for Sunday’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone. New upgrades on both Mercedes cars had yielded a step forward in dry conditions relative to rivals
9:28 AM ET SILVERSTONE — Lewis Hamilton has removed his nose stud ahead of the British Grand Prix, seemingly ending the controversy over Formula One’s jewellery ban. This year the FIA has clarified a long-standing rule in F1’s regulations banning drivers wearing items of jewellery during races, something Hamilton had been in defiance of. The
10:25 AM ET SILVERSTONE, England — A group of environmental protesters have threatened to invade the track during Sunday’s British Grand Prix. The threat was made ahead of what could be Silverstone’s record attendance, with F1 expecting 400,000 fans to attend across Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 1 Related Race day attendance may well exceed the
7:59 AM ET Formula One world champion Max Verstappen says he is now ready to work with the Netflix docu-series ‘Drive to Survive’ after previously shunning it for the way the protagonists were portrayed. The Red Bull driver did not cooperate with producers for the fourth season of the behind-the-scenes show which premiered this year.
1:55 PM ET TOWCESTER, England — Max Verstappen said the racial slur Nelson Piquet used to describe Lewis Hamilton is “not correct” but insisted the three-time world champion is “definitely not a racist.” Verstappen knows Piquet, the father of his girlfriend, Kelly, better than most in the Formula One paddock and was quick to say