News Details

Hamilton planned to ‘take risk' in Bottas fight

Lewis Hamilton has revealed he planned to “take a risk” strategically in his Austrian Grand Prix battle with Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas prior to the intervention of the Safety Car. Hamilton had worked his way up to second in the first stint of Formula 1's season-opener at Spielberg, passing Sergio Perez and Lando Norris, before profiting when Max Verstappen retired. Hamilton halved Bottas’ seven-second lead when the Safety Car was deployed in the wake of Kevin Magnussen’s Haas suffering a brake failure. Mercedes opted to double-stack its drivers for a tyre change, switching both from Softs to Hards, before its W11s developed gearbox issues. Related Posts Alfa Romeo...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Mercedes announce all-black race suits, rainbow decal...

< ► > Both the race suits of Mercedes and Formula 1's safety...
5y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Bottas heads Mercedes front row lock out in Austria

Valtteri Bottas claimed the first pole position of the 2020 F1 world...
5y ago from F1i.com

Bottas heads Mercedes front row lockout in Austria

Valtteri Bottas claimed the first pole position of the 2020 F1 world...
5y ago from F1i.com

Bottas stands behind Hamilton and Mercedes: ''Proud of...

Lewis Hamilton has been working hard for the fight against racism over...
5y ago from GPBlog.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Francesco Bagnaia ‘running out of patience’ with...

Francesco Bagnaia revealed it is “difficult to explain” his 2025...

Joan Mir reveals ‘realistic position’ for Honda...

Joan Mir revealed his sixth-place in Sunday’s Austrian MotoGP race was...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

PREMA adapting European approach to better suit IndyCar

PREMA has nearly completed its first season fielding a pair of entries in...
24m ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

NASCAR Trucks to join IndyCar for St. Petersburg race...

The 2026 schedule for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) was...
21h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Paul Merson predicts Manchester City vs Tottenham,...

It's only been a week since the Premier League returned and what a joy it...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

'Brilliant deal' – Former player claims Arsenal...

Arsenal have been praised for signing Eberechi Eze in what looks like...
34m ago from CaughtOffside.com

Episode 841 – Eze does it

Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the Arsenal podcast. In...
2h ago from Arseblog.com

Eze Come Eze Go

When Arsenal signed Dennis Bergkamp in the summer of 1995, my next door...
3h ago from Arseblog.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.