Sep 26, 2021 Lance Stroll has been given a 10-second penalty and two penalty points after being found wholly to blame for his collision with Pierre Gasly at the end of the Russian Grand Prix. Stroll and Gasly tangled on the approach to Turn 3 as the rain started to intensify in the closing laps.
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Sep 26, 2021 Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas will start the Russian Grand Prix from 17th place after a new engine was fitted to his car resulting in a grid penalty. 1 Related Bottas qualified seventh on the grid in a wet qualifying session on Saturday, but will now join Nicholas Latifi, Charles Leclerc and Max
12:00 PM ET Up until the last four laps of the Russian Grand Prix weekend, Lando Norris had done everything right. He took his first pole position in Saturday’s qualifying session, ironically in conditions that mirrored the transition from dry to wet at the end of the race on Sunday, pulled off the perfect dry-weather
8:47 AM ET Lewis Hamilton retook the lead in the Formula One championship with his 100th win in Russia on Sunday but engine concerns are hanging over the Mercedes driver’s bid for a record eighth title. Team mate Valtteri Bottas took a hit and started 16th on the grid in Sochi after Mercedes replaced some
4:14 AM ET Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff expects the Formula One title battle between Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull rival Max Verstappen to rage deep into the 2021 season, with the gap between the pair too close for comfort. The 36-year-old Hamilton turned a five-point deficit to his 23-year-old Dutch rival into a two-point
12:39 PM ET Max Verstappen’s second-place finish in Sunday’s Russian Formula One Grand Prix felt like a victory for the Dutchman’s Red Bull squad, team principal Christian Horner said. The 23-year-old Verstappen had started last after taking on a new engine that exceeded his permitted allocation but he crossed the line behind Mercedes title rival
11:44 AM ET It’s hard to put Lewis Hamilton’s 100 Formula One victories into context as no-one in the 71-year history of the sport has ever reached three figures of race wins. Between 2006 and 2020, Michael Schumacher held the record for the most career wins at 91 — a number that was 40 clear
10:41 AM ET Lando Norris said he was “devastated” by the late call which cost him a first Formula One victory at the Russian Grand Prix. Norris was four laps away from a first win when a rain shower threw the Sochi race wide open. The McLaren driver had been holding off Lewis Hamilton in
12:56 PM 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 It’s a qualifying top three, but not as we know it. Tricky conditions in
6:16 PM ET The sun had barely risen when Lewis Hamilton’s jet touched down in New York on the morning of the Met Gala. It had been a rough flight for the seven-time Formula One world champion, interspersed by on-board physio sessions to relieve a building tension in the muscles around his neck and upper