On paper, Verstappen is a Red Bull driver next year and beyond. A Red Bull spokesperson said: “Max has a contract to 2028.” At the same time, Verstappen and his management have talked with Mercedes about the possibility of moving there next year. And it’s likely Verstappen could find a way out of his Red...
Mercedes driver George Russell headed Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in first practice at the Austrian Grand Prix. Russell, who said on Thursday that Mercedes were talking to Verstappen about the possibility of driving for them next year, was 0.065 seconds quicker than the Dutchman. McLaren’s Oscar Piastri was third fastest, ahead of an impressive performance...
Russell’s comments imply that his own contract talks with team principal Toto Wolff are being delayed by Mercedes’ conversations with the four-time champion. Verstappen refused to directly comment when he was asked on Thursday whether he would be staying with the team next year. “I don’t think we need to talk about that,” he said....
Twelve years is a long time, and not just in sport. It’s June 2025 and George North is on the north bank of the Brisbane River, in the shadow of Story Bridge, practising yoga in the winter sunshine. “It’s probably the most Australian thing I’ve ever done,” says the former Wales winger. The sedate scene...
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff says Red Bull’s protest was “petty” and “embarrassing” as George Russell finished first ahead of four-time world champion Max Verstappen at Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix. Russell claimed Mercedes’ first win of the season as the race finished under the safety car, with Lando Norris having hit McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri’s...
It was a successful day all round for Mercedes with 18-year-old rookie Kimi Antonelli finishing third for his first podium in Formula 1. Antonelli – at 18 years and 294 days old – becomes the third-youngest podium finisher of all time behind Verstappen and Lance Stroll. Starting fourth, he overtook championship leader Piastri at the...
    In dealing with the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles police chief described his force as “overwhelmed” by the protesters and rioters. The city, as is the case with many of America’s other large cities, suffers from inadequate manpower. The size of the LAPD is the smallest in 20...
Lando Norris crashed out of the Canadian Grand Prix in a collision with McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri. Norris hit the back of Piastri’s car as he attempted a passing move on the pit straight with four laps to go as George Russell took Mercedes’ first victory of the season with a controlled drive. The Briton...
Russell had felt on arriving at the track on Saturday morning that he had a good chance of setting pole, and his confidence was well placed. Like Verstappen using the medium tyre for his final lap, Russell said it was “one of the most exhilarating laps of my life”. He added: “I swear, every corner...
Despite breaking the record, when meeting with his family after the race George was reminded by his younger brother – Oxford United footballer Stanley Mills – that he had only finished fourth. “We’re all like that,” George said with a smile of his high-achieving sporting family. “When you achieve something like that, you can always...
Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith was third in the women’s 100m, behind Olympic champion Julien Alfred and veteran Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith. Asher-Smith failed to make the 100m final at last year’s Olympics but is hopeful of better at this year’s World Championships in Tokyo in September. She said after running a season’s best 11.08 seconds: “I feel...
He surpassed the previous best of 175 scored by Calum MacLeod in 2014 and now has more than 5,000 runs for Scotland in all formats. The 32-year-old left-hander looked all set to carry his bat for a double century but was bowled by Vivian Kingma in the 49th over from the 150th ball he faced....
Asked what he thought Verstappen was trying to achieve in the manoeuvre at Barcelona’s Turn Five, Russell said: “I think he was trying to run me off the road, but I don’t think he was trying to intentionally crash into me. I think he just misjudged it.” If Verstappen receives one more point on his...
    It’s been five years since the George Floyd/BLM protests and riots. Therefore, the leftwing legacy media seizes upon this occasion to pull out its race-colored thermometer to measure America’s post George Floyd “racial progress.”     A recent New York Times headline read, “Five Years After Floyd — We...
With the benefit of hindsight, this was one of two mistakes Red Bull made in the Spanish Grand Prix. After the stewards launched an inquiry into the Verstappen-Russell incident in Turn One, Red Bull decided to order Verstappen to give the place back. Team principal Christian Horner said the decision was based “on recent experience...