Formula 1 New Year’s resolutions: Part 2
Date published:
January 1 2021
It can be quite the challenge to stick to all of our New Year’s resolutions, even though we know it is in our best interests.
And Formula 1 is no different – heading into the 2021 campaign there is not a team on the grid prepared to take their foot off the gas, not even Mercedes.
So, in the second part of our New Year’s resolutions, we have saved the top five teams a job and selected one for each of them.
Alpine
Keep Fernando Alonso happy
The two-time World Champion is known to be extremely demanding of any team he works with, and 2021 will be no different at Alpine.
Bottas too ‘crap’ at Sakhir GP for Russell comparison
Date published:
December 30 2020
Red Bull driver programme boss Helmut Marko said Valtteri Bottas was too “crap” at the Sakhir GP to make a true comparison to George Russell.
Russell was drafted in to make his Mercedes debut at the Sakhir Grand Prix as a replacement to Lewis Hamilton who tested positive for COVID-19 prior to the race weekend.
And it was a standout display from Russell who qualified P2, only 0.026s slower than Bottas, before taking the lead from his team-mate at Turn 1 on the opening lap.
Ultimately a botched Mercedes pit stop and later a low puncture cost Russell what looked set to be his first win in Formula 1.