Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says interrupting George Russell with an excitable radio message about winning F1’s Austrian Grand Prix was the “single dumbest” thing he has done at the team. As it became clear that the late-race collision between Lando Norris and Max Verstappen had put them both out of contention for victory as they
A Hans Zimmer score and a cinematic masterpiece are often intertwined among some of the most venerated productions in the world of film. The highly revered composer has lent a sprinkling of gold dust to each, enveloping them in a sheen of electronic music-influenced orchestral soundscapes, and has won two Oscars for ‘best original score’
Since McLaren’s emergence as the closest challenger to Red Bull in the 2024 Formula 1 season, it’s seemed inevitable that Lando Norris would have to go properly wheel-to-wheel with three-time champion Max Verstappen. Now that that’s happened – with a disastrous outcome – what are the consequences for two drivers who until now have been
Formula 1 should seek to “fix” clear flaws with the racing rules that emerged from the Austrian Grand Prix, reckons McLaren boss Andrea Stella. He thinks such action is essential if F1 is to deliver a good spectacle on track rather than the kind of controversies that famously marred the 2021 title battle between Max
Lando Norris says he will “lose respect” for Max Verstappen if the Dutchman maintains he did nothing wrong in their controversial clash in Formula 1’s Austrian Grand Prix. After a knife-edge battle for several laps, Norris and Verstappen finally came to blows on lap 64 of the Red Bull Ring race, with the pair trading
It finally happened. The inevitable collision between king of the pride and the challenger, in the respective shape of Max Verstappen and Lando Norris. It’s been building – and if it wasn’t here at the Austrian Grand Prix it would have been somewhere else. The sticking Red Bull rear wheel at the final pitstop put
Max Verstappen spoke with real frustration after a seemingly comfortable Austrian Grand Prix victory descended into difficulty and a controversial clash with Lando Norris – but about his own Red Bull Formula 1 team, rather than the rival he collided with. While Norris criticised Verstappen extensively for his driving in their battle, being “a bit
Max Verstappen and Lando Norris’s first Formula 1 controversy was inevitable, in no small part because Verstappen has not budged an inch from an uncompromising approach that takes him over the line sometimes. Two frontrunning drivers fighting for wins are bound to clash at some point, especially when one of those is Verstappen. And though
Austrian Grand Prix winner George Russell reckoned he “almost crashed” when Mercedes boss Toto Wolff told him he could win over his team radio, en route to securing his second Formula 1 victory. Russell capitalised on the raging lead battle between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, which boiled over with seven laps remaining in dramatic
Red Bull’s failure to warn Max Verstappen that Lando Norris faced a track limits investigation might have avoided their late 2024 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix crash, reckons Helmut Marko. Verstappen and Norris collided in the closing stages of Sunday’s race at the Red Bull Ring, after the McLaren driver had gone off the track
