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Wolff hits out at Red Bull protest after Russell’s Canadian GP win | Formula One | The Guardian

The Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolff, has criticised Red Bull’s protests that George Russell drove erratically at the Canadian Grand Prix

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17.06.2025

Hamilton reveals distress over ‘devastating’ groundhog accident at Canadian F1 GP | Formula One | The Guardian

The incident damaged the underside of Lewis Hamilton’s car, with the Ferrari driver saying: ‘I love animals so I’m so sad about it. That’s horrible’

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16.06.2025

McLaren play it cool after Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri collide | Formula One | The Guardian

Andrea Stella, the McLaren team principal, played down any acrimony between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri after the teammates collided during the race

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16.06.2025

Redemption for ‘chilled’ Russell at Canadian F1 GP as Norris gets it all wrong | Formula One | The Guardian

Lando Norris accepted the clash with his teammate was ‘stupid from me’ while Kimi Antonelli claimed his first podium behind Max Verstappen

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16.06.2025

George Russell wins the Canadian Grand Prix after McLaren collision: F1 – as it happened | Formula One | The Guardian

George Russell held off Max Verstappen as McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri collided

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15.06.2025

Verstappen lashes out at critics after Russell snatches Canadian F1 GP pole | Formula One | The Guardian

A furious Max Verstappen lashed out at criticism of his driving after George Russell beat him to pole position for Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix

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15.06.2025

Formula One: Mercedes’ Russell snatches pole for Canadian grand prix – as it happened | Formula One | The Guardian

George Russell beat Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri to pole position for the F1 Canadian grand prix in Montreal

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14.06.2025

Why Verstappen the Villain and Verstappen the Vulnerable are great for F1 | Formula One | The Guardian

The Dutch four-time world champion rose to fame as something of a scoundrel and has showed signs of reverting to type

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13.06.2025

Red Bull agree deal to buy Newcastle Falcons and keep Premiership club afloat | Newcastle | The Guardian

Red Bull has agreed to buy Newcastle Falcons with a commitment to keep the club in the city and ensuring a 10-team Premiership next season

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13.06.2025

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13.06.2025

Lewis Hamilton has ‘zero doubts’ that he will be in F1 for several more seasons | Lewis Hamilton | The Guardian

‘There is no question as to where my head is at,’ said Hamilton despite being 115 points adrift of the world championship lead

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10.06.2025

F1 2026 calendar revealed: Madrid joins 24-race season as Imola falls off list | Formula One | The Guardian

The 2026 Formula One season will kick off in Melbourne in March and again feature 24 races as Madrid arrives on the calendar

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07.06.2025

Sports quiz of the week: Champions League, French Open and Giro d’Italia | Sport | The Guardian

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04.06.2025

Rome’s taxi drivers outraged at claim they drive like F1’s Max Verstappen | Formula One | The Guardian

Rome taxi drivers are in uproar at the suggestion they drive as badly as mad Max Verstappen

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03.06.2025

‘Not right’: Verstappen issues veiled apology for Russell crash at F1 Spanish GP | Formula One | The Guardian

Max Verstappen has issued a veiled apology for his wild crash with George Russell by admitting it ‘was not right and should have not happened’

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03.06.2025

Max Verstappen must control his road rage to cement his legacy as a great | Max Verstappen | The Guardian

There was no justification for the driver’s rash and futile act of retribution at the Spanish Grand Prix

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02.06.2025

Russell believes Verstappen should have been disqualified for Spanish F1 GP crash | Formula One | The Guardian

George Russell said ‘you cannot deliberately crash into another driver’ after Max Verstappen was given a 10sec penalty for their collision

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02.06.2025

Piastri leads McLaren one-two in Spanish F1 GP as Verstappen pays penalty | Formula One | The Guardian

Oscar Piastri now leads Lando Norris by 10 points in the drivers’ standings but Max Verstappen was penalised for driving into George Russell

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02.06.2025

Oscar Piastri wins Spanish Grand Prix from pole: Formula One – as it happened | Formula One | The Guardian

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri started on pole and finished first on a tough day for Max Verstappen

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01.06.2025

Formula One: Spanish grand prix qualifying: Oscar Piastri takes pole – as it happened | Formula One | The Guardian

Piastri nipped ahead of McLaren teammate Lando Norris to claim his fourth pole position of the season

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01.06.2025

‘Ice Boy’ Oscar Piastri takes Spanish F1 GP pole as McLaren dominate | Formula One | The Guardian

Oscar Piastri dominated qualifying in Barcelona to secure pole for Sunday’s race and finished a massive 0.2 seconds ahead of his teammate Lando Norris in second.

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31.05.2025

New F1 wing rules are talk of pit lane in Spain but McLaren still out in front | Formula One | The Guardian

The rules are intended to close the gap between the best drivers but McLaren’s Oscar Piastri seemed unaffected and was fastest in second practice

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31.05.2025

Williams’ James Vowles ‘backing failure’ in bid to guide team to F1 summit | Williams | The Guardian

The team principal has turned Williams around in a short space of time and is looking to 2026 for a serious title charge

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30.05.2025

Lewis Hamilton labels talk of strained relationship with Ferrari engineer as ‘BS’ | Lewis Hamilton | The Guardian

Lewis Hamilton dismissed speculation about what has been interpreted as a fractious relationship with Riccardo Adami, his race engineer at Ferrari

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27.05.2025

F1 team heads call for Monaco to ‘move with the times’ and make track change | Formula One | The Guardian

Christian Horner and Toto Wolff have called for layout changes to allow overtaking after new two-stop rule fell flat at Monaco GP

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26.05.2025

Formula One 2025: Lando Norris wins Monaco Grand Prix to boost title push – as it happened | Formula One | The Guardian

Lando Norris closed on his teammate Oscar Piastri in the season standings after an experimental race at the storied Monte Carlo circuit

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26.05.2025

Lando Norris wins Monaco F1 GP to close gap on championship leader Piastri | Formula One | The Guardian

Lando Norris claimed victory at the Monaco Grand Prix for McLaren, with a controlled drive from pole to the flag in Monte Carlo

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26.05.2025

‘We were almost doing Mario Kart’: Verstappen and Russell slate Monaco F1 GP pit stops | Formula One | The Guardian

Max Verstappen and George Russell both issued a blunt disapproval of Formula One’s attempts to enliven the Monaco Grand Prix

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25.05.2025

Formula One 2025: Lando Norris takes pole for Monaco Grand Prix – as it happened | Formula One | The Guardian

McLaren’s Lando Norris pipped Charles Leclerc to pole in Monaco. Join John Brewin for reaction

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25.05.2025

Lando Norris pips Charles Leclerc to take Monaco F1 GP pole for McLaren | Formula One | The Guardian

Lando Norris claimed pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix, producing a masterful display to thread the needle on the streets of Monte Carlo for McLaren

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25.05.2025

‘I lived my passion’: how Christine Beckers and a group of intrepid female drivers blazed a trail in 1970s Monaco | Motor sport | The Guardian

New book shines a light on the women who stole headlines on an F1 support bill 50 years ago, with Beckers going on to star at Le Mans and hold the Guinness World Record

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24.05.2025

Formula One optimistic tyre decree can inject life into ageing Monaco GP | Formula One | The Guardian

Mandate forcing two pit stops aims to bring back sparkle to jewel in F1’s crown that has become tedious procession

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24.05.2025

Adrian Newey out to build car that will tempt Max Verstappen to Aston Martin | Aston Martin | The Guardian

The 66-year-old Briton has been in ‘design trance’ for months to make the car he believes can lure the world champion to move from Red Bull

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23.05.2025

Lewis Hamilton ‘to make three new films’ but Verstappen snubs F1 screening | Lewis Hamilton | The Guardian

Briton writing up ‘three concepts’ with his company after helping produce F1: The Movie, which Verstappen missed at a Monaco screening

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20.05.2025

Red Bull confident Verstappen’s Imola win will be a turning point in F1 season | Formula One | The Guardian

Christian Horner believes Max Verstappen’s victory at the Emilia-Romagna GP showed Red Bull have the car and race pace to challenge McLaren

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19.05.2025

‘An amazing experience’: Lewis Hamilton revels in support for Ferrari at Emilia-Romagna GP | Formula One | The Guardian

Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton said there was a ‘sea of red everywhere’ as he finished fourth after starting the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix 12th

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19.05.2025

Formula One: Max Verstappen wins Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix – as it happened | Formula One | The Guardian

Max Verstappen hit back in the title race with an imperious display as both McLarens made the podium with Lewis Hamilton in fourth

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19.05.2025

Verstappen wins Emilia-Romagna GP to close gap on F1 title rivals | Formula One | The Guardian

Max Verstappen won the F1 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix for Red Bull, with Lando Norris second and Oscar Piastri third

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F1 the Movie review – spectacular macho melodrama handles Brad Pitt with panache | Film | The Guardian

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F1 team heads call for Monaco to ‘move with the times’ and make track change | Formula One | The Guardian

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