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Neil Oatley began working in Formula 1 way back in 1977 and has designed some of the most successful cars in F1, worked with drivers like Alan Jones, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Lewis Hamilton – and has had a front row seat to some of the most dramatic and thrilling races and seasons in the sport's history.
Mercedes are standing firm with their development path, the team set to race the upgrades scheduled for Imola at Monaco.
Do Valtteri Bottas and George Russell want to race for Mercedes next year? After Imola, you could not blame Toto Wolff if he started looking beyond the pair of them. Along with Lewis Hamilton, Bottas and Russell are thought to be in a three-cornered fight for Mercedes’ 2022 seats. But Wolff surely could not believe what he was seeing when they sent each other spinning into the barriers on lap 32 – moments after Hamilton had to reverse out of the gravel trap with front-wing damage when he veered off track while lapping Russell. Having put Bottas in his place when he deputised for Hamilton ...