BERLIN: Mercedes will invest billions of dollars to modernize its plants in China, Germany and Hungary in the coming years, the magazine Automobilwoche reported, as the automaker prepares to switch to electric vehicles and cut emissions. The European Union has set a target of halving the CO2 emissions of passenger cars over their life cycle...
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Hamilton said that Mercedes did not listen to him
LONDON: Seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton said his Mercedes team had not listened to him in the development of their 2023 Formula One car. The Briton told reporters last week that Mercedes was on the wrong track before finishing fifth in Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix opener. “Last year, there were things I told them....
Red Bull plays the talk of winning every race
LONDON: Red Bull were so strong in Formula One’s Bahrain at the start of the season that Mercedes boss George Russell suggested they could win every race this year. The Englishman is not the only one to point to such a situation, even if such a sweep would not happen before in a championship that...
Red Bull has an F1 title already ‘sewn’: Russell
Sakhir: Mercedes driver George Russell Red Bull believe they have the 2023 title already “sewn” after seeing Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez cruise into a one-two at the season opener in Bahrain. Verstappen, who is trying to collect the third race, won well from the top position with Sakhir and Perez almost 12 seconds behind....
‘It was one of our worst days’, said manager Mercedes Wolff
Sakhir: Team manager Blood Wolff Mercedes said it was “one of their worst days” in racing on Sunday after Lewis Hamilton and George Russell finished fifth and seventh in the Bahrain Grand Prix. The Austrian, who said on Saturday his team had to go back to the drawing board and redesign their car, was backed...
Hamilton happy with Mercedes despite struggles
Sakhir: Lewis Hamilton admitted on Thursday that he hopes to fight back in the first races this season, but responded to observers who said Mercedes’ lack of pace was the reason he had not signed a new contract. Speaking to reporters ahead of the season opener at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, the 38-year-old...
Horner grumbled
Red Bull does not seem ready to consider the accident as an emergency and is not ready to continue Last Sunday, the Mercedes team Lewis Hamilton and the Red Bull Racing Max Verstappen crashed at the Silverstone Circuit in an unexpected F1 result. In the middle of a great British Grand Prix battle, Hamilton and...