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Bottas rejoins Mercedes as 2025 F1 reserve driver

Valtteri Bottas has been re-signed by Mercedes to be its reserve driver for the 2025 Formula 1 season, after he missed out on keeping his seat at Sauber.

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Russell: Ben Sulayem needs to tell F1 drivers what the FIA’s goal is

George Russell has implored FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to “express what his goal is” with motorsport’s governing body, amid the ongoing tension between the Emirati former rally driver and Formula 1 racers.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #46 Yuki Tsunoda

Despite continuing to be overlooked by Red Bull’s lead Formula 1 team, Yuki Tsunoda showed great maturity over 2024, with three seventh places the highlights of his year in Australia, Miami and Brazil.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #37 Fernando Alonso

Aston Martin regressed over 2024 as upgrades did little to improve its competitiveness in Formula 1, but the evergreen Fernando Alonso still squeezed every drop from his car.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #27 Lewis Hamilton

Back to winning ways in 2024 after 946 days without gracing an F1 podium’s top step – Lewis Hamilton’s emotional Silverstone victory was the highlight of his season, but he was excellent in qualifying and on the orthodox two-stop strategy at Spa too.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #13 Oscar Piastri

Oscar Piastri enjoyed a great second F1 season and made a valuable contribution to the end of McLaren’s long wait for a constructors’ title.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #11 George Russell

Qualifying was where George Russell gained an important edge at Mercedes in 2024, which he put down to his confidence rising in situations where the pressure is on. He ended up with a small but still significant 0.148s advantage over a driver with 104 F1 poles in Lewis Hamilton.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #6 Carlos Sainz

A classy year for Carlos Sainz in difficult circumstances, in knowing that first, his Ferrari seat was going to Lewis Hamilton in 2025 and second, in losing a race to appendicitis. The Spaniard bounced back from the illness with a fine victory in Melbourne, and his victory in Mexico was perhaps…

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #3 Lando Norris

Undoubtedly, his best Formula 1 season to date – with the statistics proving so. In 2024, Lando Norris finished as championship runner-up (his previous best finishing position was sixth in 2021 and 2023), he took four wins in breaking his GP victory duck (along with a sprint win too) and…

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #1 Max Verstappen

“A Schrodinger’s season for Max Verstappen. Concurrently his best and not his best.” That’s how we’ve described the world champion’s campaign in our Formula 1 driver rankings. And that’s because there are two ways of looking at Verstappen’s performance over the past months.

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Red Bull's Lawson pick makes its Ricciardo experiment a waste of time

Let's recap the saga of Red Bull's second seat alongside Max Verstappen, shall we? It's a saga that, by all accounts, is gratuitously long and ends in a resolution that would be entirely predictable for a team with a 'normal' approach to the driver market.

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Why Red Bull's Lawson pick renders its Ricciardo experiment a waste of time

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Are there enough reasons to justify Lawson's Red Bull deal?

It's somewhat explainable how Red Bull ended up here. You don't necessarily have to agree that Christian Horner and Helmut Marko have made all the right decisions regarding their team's driver line-up over the past year and a half, but you can still find some logic in how they came…

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A hope and a prayer: Are there enough reasons to justify Lawson's Red Bull deal?

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Lawson promoted to replace Perez at Red Bull

Liam Lawson will step up to Red Bull as Max Verstappen’s team-mate in Formula 1 next year, it was announced on Thursday.

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Ferrari first to reveal 2025 F1 car launch date

Ferrari has become the first Formula 1 team to reveal the date of its 2025 car launch.

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Red Bull Drops Sergio Perez After Disappointing Results

Red Bull Racing parts ways with Sergio Perez in Formula 1 due to performance issues, seeking a replacement driver. Perez thanked fans for their support.

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The complications and negotiations behind Perez’s Red Bull exit

It had been pretty clear for a while that Sergio Perez would not be a part of Red Bull’s future in Formula 1 off the back of his troubled 2024 campaign.

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Sergio Perez’s next move after Red Bull exit revealed by Christian Horner

Perez has been axed by Red Bull after a torrid season in which he finished 285 points behind teammate Max Verstappen

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Hopefully it can be me – Abbi Pulling hungry to end wait for female driver in F1

Italy’s Lella Lombardi was the last woman to race in Formula One in 1976.

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Sergio Perez’s dreadful form cost Red Bull 2024 F1 title – the Mexican had to go

Perez has lost his Red Bull seat next year after a season to forget as Max Verstappen’s teammate

The Independent UK

Liam Lawson news LIVE: Red Bull latest as Kiwi replaces Sergio Perez as Max Verstappen’s teammate

RB’s Liam Lawson has taken Sergio Perez’s spot alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull Racing next season

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Autosport Podcast Q+A: Perez leaves Red Bull and the Tsunoda-Lawson conundrum

On this week’s episode, we react to the news that Sergio Perez is leaving Red Bull after a very disappointing campaign for the 34-year-old.

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The 10 F1 2024 moments that cost Perez his Red Bull drive

Sergio Perez’s Red Bull career haul now ends at five wins, three poles and 932 points. That he only added to the last of those three categories in the 2024 Formula 1 season is one of three key reasons why he’s finally been cast off as Max Verstappen’s team-mate.

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Perez announces departure from Red Bull F1 team

Sergio Perez has announced his exit from the Red Bull Formula 1 team after four seasons with the squad.

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