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A video on social media showed the former world champion saying Brazil's President-Elect belongs "in the cemetery"

Piquet faces investigation over Lula 'cemetery' comment

Brazilian prosecutors late on Thursday asked local police to open an investigation against Nelson Piquet after a video on social media showed the former Formula One world champion saying President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva belongs "in the cemetery".

Motorsport • 04 Nov 22

Verstappen took issue with comments made during the broadcaster's F1 coverage

Verstappen boycotts Sky after 'Hamilton robbed' jibe

Max Verstappen accused Sky Sports of being "disrespectful" and "living in the past" after Red Bull boycotted the broadcaster at the Mexican Grand Prix.

Motorsport • 30 Oct 22

"We were a little bit taken aback by the comments from our two rival teams"

Horner threatens legal action over Wolff claims

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has accused rival boss Toto Wolff of "hugely defamatory, fictitious claims" and threatened legal action against Mercedes amid the cheat row overshadowing this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix.

Motorsport • 01 Oct 22

Christian Horner and Toto Wolff at the Italian Grand Prix

Wolff urges action as Red Bull deny salary cap breach

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has demanded Formula One's governing body the FIA take robust action over reports Red Bull broke the rules when Max Verstappen beat Lewis Hamilton to last year's world championship.

Motorsport • 30 Sep 22

Albon released from hospital after respiratory failure

Alex Albon has been released from hospital after he suffered respiratory failure and was left on a ventilator following complications from surgery.

Motorsport • 13 Sep 22

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto: 'Certainly, I need to apologise'

Ferrari chief sorry for comparing Tsunoda to tsunami

Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto apologised on Saturday for causing upset by comparing accident-prone Japanese Formula One driver Yuki Tsunoda to a tsunami.

Motorsport • 10 Sep 22

Wolff slams 'total idiots' after Dutch flare incident

Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes boss Toto Wolff fears a Formula One driver could face "lethal consequences" if flares are thrown on to the track at Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix.

Motorsport • 03 Sep 22

Piastri to replace Ricciardo at McLaren as dispute ends

Australian rookie Oscar Piastri will race for McLaren next season after the Formula One team won a contract dispute with Renault-owned rivals Alpine on Friday.

Motorsport • 02 Sep 22

Fernando Alonso pictured talking to the media ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort

Fernando Alonso apologises to 'legend' Lewis Hamilton

Fernando Alonso apologised on Thursday for calling Lewis Hamilton an idiot after they collided at last weekend's Belgian Grand Prix and said his heat of the moment comments were blown out of proportion.

Motorsport • 01 Sep 22

Lewis Hamilton (R) and Fernando Alonso collide in the opening lap

Verstappen wins at Spa, Alonso slams 'idiot' Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton was called an "idiot" and told "he only knows how to drive and start in first" by a furious Fernando Alonso following their opening-lap crash at the Belgian Grand Prix.

Motorsport • 28 Aug 22

Lewis Hamilton will start fourth in Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix

Wolff: Hamilton feels like he is dragging a parachute

Lewis Hamilton told Toto Wolff he feels like he is dragging a parachute behind him as the Mercedes boss labelled his team's abject qualifying for Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix as "unacceptable".

Motorsport • 27 Aug 22

Piastri is believed to have signed a deal to race for rivals McLaren

Alpine confident for Piastri contract ahead of hearing

Renault-owned Alpine expressed confidence in their case ahead of a meeting on Monday of Formula One's contract recognition board to decide which team Australian Oscar Piastri should race for next season.

Motorsport • 27 Aug 22

Hamilton sad to see old pal Vettel retire from racing

Lewis Hamilton praised Sebastian Vettel for standing by him in Formula One's "lonely" world - before hailing the German as a great of the grid.

Motorsport • 28 Jul 22

Charles Leclerc is on pole at the French GP

Leclerc takes pole position at French GP

Charles Leclerc secured pole position at the French Grand Prix, after he breathed fresh life into his championship bid with a comprehensive victory at the last round in Austria a fortnight ago.

Motorsport • 23 Jul 22

Lewis Hamilton's car is towed away after he crashed into barriers

Hamilton crashes out in Austria sprint-race qualifying

Lewis Hamilton said he was "incredibly disappointed" after crashing out of qualifying for Saturday's sprint race in Austria.

Motorsport • 08 Jul 22

It was a weekend of firsts for Ferrari's Carlos Sainz

Sainz capitalises on pole to win wild British GP

Carlos Sainz won a dramatic British Grand Prix which saw Zhou Guanyu survive a horror opening-lap crash and protestors invade the track at Silverstone.

Motorsport • 03 Jul 22

Bernie Ecclestone claims Vladimir Putin is "a first-class person"

Ecclestone would 'take a bullet' for Putin

Former Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has said he would "take a bullet" for Russian President Vladimir Putin and described him as "a first-class person".

Motorsport • 30 Jun 22

Lewis Hamilton said: 'I've been surrounded by these attitudes and targeted my whole life'

Hamilton: 'Archaic mindsets' need to change

Lewis Hamilton insists "archaic mindsets" need to change after it emerged former Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet used a racial epithet towards the Mercedes driver.

Motorsport • 28 Jun 22

Max Verstappen repelled the late charge of Carlos Sainz at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

Verstappen claims Canadian Grand Prix

Max Verstappen held off a late challenge from Carlos Sainz to take victory at the Canadian Grand Prix and further extend his championship lead.

Motorsport • 19 Jun 22

Max Verstappen is bidding for a first Canadian GP win

Verstappen delivers peerless pole performance in Canada

Max Verstappen stormed to a scintillating pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix as he dominated in changeable conditions to continue his quest for a second world championship.

Motorsport • 18 Jun 22

Sebastian Vettel will think about his own future later in the year

Vettel questions if Hamilton is still excited by F1

Sebastian Vettel has questioned whether Lewis Hamilton is still excited by Formula One following the seven-time world champion's downturn in results.

Motorsport • 09 Jun 22

Lewis Hamilton: 'We've definitely got bigger fish to fry'

FIA extend Hamilton's jewellery exemption

Lewis Hamilton will be able to race in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix wearing jewellery after his exemption was extended.

Motorsport • 27 May 22

Verstappen completes a hat-trick of victories

Verstappen takes Spanish victory, agony for Leclerc

Formula One world champion Max Verstappen won the Spanish Grand Prix in a Red Bull one-two and seized the overall lead in the standings on an agonising Sunday for Ferrari's luckless Charles Leclerc.

Motorsport • 22 May 22

The world champion was victorious in the inaugural event

Verstappen holds off Leclerc to win in Miami

Max Verstappen survived a late onslaught from Charles Leclerc to win Formula One's inaugural Miami Grand Prix.

Motorsport • 08 May 22

"I am 100% committed to this team. There's nowhere else that I want to be"

Hamilton slams 'nonsense' chatter about Mercedes exit

Seven times Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has dismissed as "a bunch of nonsense" speculation about his future and said he remains fully committed to Mercedes despite receding title hopes.

Motorsport • 24 Apr 22

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