11:21 AM ET Several days after the chequered flag fell on the 2021 season, the final few laps of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix remain hugely controversial. The decision of race director Michael Masi to speed up the return to racing following a safety car period have split fans between those who believe it unfairly
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10:14 AM ET Max Verstappen won his first Formula One title at the weekend, but there still isn’t a single photograph of him holding the world championship trophy. It remains one of the most curious aspects of F1 that the champion does not get his prize the moment he wins the title, which sets the
7:52 AM ET Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton is set to receive his knighthood at Windsor Castle on Wednesday, just days after controversially losing the 2021 title to Max Verstappen. 2 Related Hamilton, 36, was named in the Queen’s Honours List after winning a seventh championship last year, bringing him level all-time with
10:31 AM ET Max Verstappen has confirmed he will run the number one on his car in 2022 as Formula One world champion, something no driver has done in F1 since 2014. There has not been a number one car on the F1 grid since Sebastian Vettel’s in 2014, when the Red Bull driver was
8:45 AM ET Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Max Verstappen has been confirmed as Formula One
1:17 PM ET Formula One world champion Max Verstappen took stock of his new status on Monday and revealed that Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff, despite threatening to appeal, had texted his congratulations. The 24-year-old handed Red Bull their first title since 2013 in Abu Dhabi on Sunday when he overtook Mercedes’ seven times world
11:23 AM ET ABU DHABI — Dressed in a t-shirt proudly pronouncing Max Verstappen as the 2021 world champion, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner marched towards the stewards’ office on Sunday night to defend the very slogan stamped across his chest. Just four hours earlier, Horner had stood on the Abu Dhabi podium celebrating
6:02 AM ET Williams driver Nicholas Latifi has apologised and said it was not his intention to play such a major role in deciding the outcome of the F1 championship at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday. Latifi’s crash on lap 52 of 58 was the spark for the safety car which changed the
10:11 AM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Max Verstappen claimed an astonishing first F1 world championship title by overtaking title rival Lewis Hamilton on the final lap of a hugely controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Verstappen appeared to have lost out to Hamilton until a crash by Nicholas Latifi triggered a Safety Car
1:41 PM ET It quickly became clear at the start of the year that Mercedes would not have an easy ride to the title in 2021. After seven years of facing no serious competition for either the drivers’ or the constructors’ title, the reigning world champions were suddenly on the back foot. Red Bull emerged