F1 news LIVE: Lewis Hamilton transfer to Red Bull dismissed for one clear factor

Red Bull are the standout group in Formula 1 today, having actually won both the Drivers and Constructors’ World Championship in 2015 at a canter.

They have actually produced an even quicker car this season, making one-two surfaces in the very first 2 races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, leaving their competitors for dead in certifying and race-pace.

Yet Hamilton, whose deal at Mercedes ends at the end of the season, has not win in his last 25 races and while a fresh agreement isn’t penned, rumours continue to swirl about his future in the sport.

Former group principal Eddie Jordan thinks Hamilton requires to transfer to Ferrari, however Red Bull manager Horner dismissed signing the seven-time world champ and is pleased with his present driver pairing of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.

Exclusive by Kieran Jackson

Amid the huge selection of sub-plots to emerge in Formula 1, one continuous year-on-year is the typically disorderly vibrant in between team-mates. Even as just recently as Sunday in Saudi Arabia, with a bubbling of stress in between Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, regard can rapidly move to bitterness. One manoeuvre, one occurrence, one minute can alter whatever.

Sky’s brand-new documentary, Villeneuve Pironi: Racing’s Untold Tragedy, informs the story of Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi in Formula 1. The set were team-mates at Ferrari and, throughout the early phases of the 1982 season, their relationship soured. The repercussions were ravaging, with Canadian hero Villeneuve killed in Zolder, Belgium, after hitting a car in certifying as he promoted pole above his team-mate. It was a heartbreaking, abrupt end to a brief tale, symbolising hostility and bitterness.

But more than anything, as Gilles’ other half Joann says in the movie’s opening lines, it is a story about betrayal. A really deep betrayal.

The occasions of 40 years earlier, having actually rejected various demands to inform the tale on the cinema, needed to be attended to. The time was now for Joann and her family – consisting of Gilles’ child, 1997 F1 world champ Jacques – to speak up.

“I have to say it brings up emotions that are not very comfortable,” Joann informs The Independent. “I always refused in the past, but this was the right time to do it.”

The ruling world champ, who won the very first race of the season in Bahrain, began P15 on the grid after a drive shaft failure ambushed his certifying on Saturday.

Rosberg, the 2016 world champ with Mercedes, was extremely not impressed by Verstappen’s response because of the group’s success in Jeddah.

Mercedes raised eyebrows at their 2023 car launch when they decided to stand firm with their distinct ‘no-sidepod’ style from in 2015, which saw the Silver Arrows relinquish their No 1 tag as they dropped to 3rd in the pack behind Red Bull and Ferrari.

Mercedes manager Toto Wolff has actually acknowledged that a modification in development is required this season, with a brand-new style in the works for the coming months, however seven-time world champ Hamilton alerted his group about just copying Red Bull’s perfect style.

“I think we have what we have and we’re going to continue to try to work on it and extract more from it, and then we’ll see how quick that can happen, or whether that’s possible with the concept we have,” Hamilton said in Jeddah at the weekend.

McLaren have actually parted methods with technical director James Key after a start to the season which has actually seen the Woking-based group stop working to score a point.

Key, mostly accountable for the car’s style, has actually come under increased examination after a start to the 2023 campaign which has actually seen both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri battle with dependability issues and an extreme absence of straight-line speed.

New group principal Andrea Stella, who took over from brand-new Sauber CEO Andreas Seidl in the off-season, has actually been assessing McLaren’s pitwall operations alogngside CEO Zak Brown.

And Key’s elimination comes along with a host of modifications, consisting of changing the function of technical director with 3 specialised functions.

Peter Prodromou will be the brand-new Technial Director, Aerodynamics, while Neil Houldey is promoted to the brand-new function of Technical Director, Engineering and Design.

Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has actually been prompted to remedy “false” declares about the arrest of Bahraini protestors prior to the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.

Reports emerged that 4 Bahraini political protestors were apprehended near the Bahrain International Circuit on 5 March, speaking up versus sportswashing of human rights abuses in the Gulf nation.

Yet the Bahraini federal government reject that any arrests happened, a view shared by Formula 1, regardless of proof first-hand by the protestors and the UK federal government verifying the arrests.

Now Domenicali has actually been prompted by Paul Scriven, a Liberal Democrat life peer, to remedy and react to these “false” declares about the arrests, along with speak up “regarding executions and the right to protest without risk of reprisals” in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

The 2 Gulf nations hosted the very first 2 races of the 2023 season.

Red Bull are the standout group in Formula 1 today, having actually won both the Drivers and Constructors’ World Championship in 2015 at a canter.

They have actually produced an even quicker car this season, making one-two surfaces in the very first 2 races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, leaving their competitors for dead in certifying and race-pace.

Yet Hamilton, whose deal at Mercedes ends at the end of the season, has not win in his last 25 races and while a fresh agreement isn’t penned, rumours continue to swirl about his future in the sport.

Former group principal Eddie Jordan thinks Hamilton requires to transfer to Ferrari, however Red Bull manager Horner dismissed signing the seven-time world champ and is pleased with his present driver pairing of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.

Lando Norris has actually amusingly revealed he failed his driving theory test very first time round in a light-hearted podcast discussion with Tom Daley.

The McLaren driver, who is presently contending in his 5th season in Formula 1, appeared on Olympic diving champ Daley’s brand-new podcast, Made With Love, and discussed a range of concerns.

As well as revealing his theory test failure, Norris confessed he is more anxious driving on routine roadways than the racetrack in F1.

“I’ve never been so sad in my life,” Norris informed Daley, when reviewing failing his theory.

“I seem like that’s when you require more brains which’s simply what I battled with at the time. But 2nd time and practical I passed, with flying colours.

George Russell initially took 3rd location after Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso was benched a position following a questionable post-race 10-second charge however Alonso was restored in 3rd at 1am regional time following an effective appeal by Aston Martin.

Hamilton completed fifth, going up 2 locations from his certifying position of seventh.

Red Bull have actually transferred to another stratosphere this year, and their squashing one-two surface – a fortnight after they ruled the season-opener in Bahrain – will be a reason for significant issue for Formula One managers ahead of a record 23-round campaign. Red Bull have actually now won 12 of the last 13 races staged.

Comment by Kieran Jackson

Come on then, who’d have believed this was how it’d end up already? No, truly. Red Bull’s margin of success in in 2015’s Constructors’ Championship was a massive 205 points however in 2023, that might well be gone beyond. In reality, never ever mind exceeded: mocked and knocked out the park.

Just 2 races down and after a set of comfy – verging on uncomplicated – one-two accomplishments, the space is 49 indicate Aston Martin in 2nd. The just point Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen have actually lost out on was the fastest lap in Bahrain. There’s 21 grand prix left; 27 races consisting of sprints. The indications, for the remainder of the pack, are absolutely nothing however scarily threatening.

There can be no doubt where the majority of the honor must be directed. Superstar designer Adrian Newey has actually developed perhaps his biggest monster yet; the RB19 was referred to as a development of 2022’s all-conquering device and boy has that showed an underestimation.

Swap development for upgrade. Double upgrade. Aerodynamically supreme, as highlighted by the unstoppable rise in speed down the straights with DRS, this breed of car is lightning through the corners too. Their supremacy in Saudi Arabia over the weekend was huge: they topped all 5 sessions consisting of practice.

Not that he requires an invite, Christian Horner was indulging in the possibility of his group’s biggest ever season.