A possible win for Ferrari at the German GP became an open wound as Sebastian Vettel retired from lead on lap 51 after making a mistake in the rain at turn 13. The Italian squad left Hockenheim with only 15 points, courtesy of Kimi Raikkonen's third place finish. Vettel started the race from pole and, having been the only driver to score points in every race so far this season, suffered his first retirement of the season. Both cars got away well at start, with the […]

Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas race to a perfect result on Mercedes home turf at Hockenheim, scoring a 1-2 finish after Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel slithered into the barriers on lap 52. After starting from P14, Hamilton stormed through the field to claim his 66th career victory – his fourth of the 2018 season and fourth at the German Grand Prix, equalling Michael Schumacher’s record for most F1 wins at the race. With this win Hamilton took the lead of the Drivers’ Championship by 17 points from Vettel […]

Tough Saturday for the Mercedes team as one of its drivers set the second fastest time in qualifying while the other retired at the end of Q1. Valtteri Bottas will start from P2 on the grid and Lewis Hamilton from P14 after having to stop the car due to a loss of hydraulic pressure from failed power steering. "It’s been a tough day, but these things happen in sport. This is a part of racing," says Hamilton. "We had a hydraulic failure at Turn 1, then lost […]

Sebastian Vettel qualified in pole position for tomorrow’s German Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring. His lap of 1:11.212 was good enough to secure his 55th pole position, the fifth this year. Team-mate Kimi Raikkonen will start tomorrow’s race from third on the grid having set a best time of 1:11.547. Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas split the two Ferraris in P2 while his team-mate Lewis Hamilton retired with a hydraulic problem in Q3. “You always try to do your best every day. Today has been one of those […]

TEAM REPRESENTATIVES – Bob BELL (Renault), Andrew GREEN (Force India), Pierre WACHE (Red Bull Racing), Paddy LOWE, (Williams) Q: Bob, can we start with you please. Hot off the back of FP1 here at Hockenheim. New front wing, one of the things you have been trying out. How different is it and is it performing as you were expecting?  Bob BELL: Yeah, it’s a reasonably different concept for the front wing. We successfully tested it OK this morning and thankfully we did it on Nico’s car, […]

DRIVERS – Brendon HARTLEY (Toro Rosso), Nico HULKENBERG (Renault), Sergio PEREZ (Force India), Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari) PRESS CONFERENCE Q: Brendon, go back to two weeks ago at Silverstone. That was a horrible-looking crash. How are you now? No lasting effects, I hope. Brendon HARTLEY: Actually, waking up on the Sunday, I was ready to go. Almost no knock-on effects, which was a surprise after watching the replay myself and seeing how spectacular that looked. In fact, the impact was smaller than what I had in both […]

The race at the Hockenheimring returns to the calendar and it's a favourite - for many reasons - for the Force India drivers. Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon talk about their experience at the German Grand Prix ahead of this weekend race in the video below.  

Haas F1 Team is regularly battling for best-of-the-rest status behind the powerhouse trio of Scuderia Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull, taking the fight to such established Formula One teams as Renault, Force India, McLaren, Toro Rosso, Sauber and Williams. Proof is in the team’s fifth-place standing in the constructors’ ranks where it is 19 points behind fourth-place Renault with a two-point margin over sixth-place Force India, a three-point gap to seventh-place McLaren and a 32-point advantage on eighth-place Toro Rosso. With Renault in its sights […]

The 2018 Formula One Season hits the halfway mark at Hockenheimring this weekend. It’s also the start of another back-to-back, as one week on comes the race in Hungary. The 17-turn track in Baden-Württemberg has hosted Formula One since 1970, with this year’s event serving as the venue’s 36th grand prix. Hockenheim is an historic track that has many tales to tell. Some of them are great, such as Berger’s win in ’94 and Irvine’s five years later, and the unbelievable 2000 race when Barrichello won […]

Organisers of next year's German Grand Prix say that they will need a high attendance if the race's long-term future is to be secured. The German Grand Prix dropped off the 2015 calendar as the Nurburgring was unable to fulfil its contract while discussions to hold a race at Hockenheim this year ultimately proved fruitless. The event will return in 2016 with Hockenheim having been given a provisional date of July 31 for its bi-annual race. With Hockenheim's race-sharing deal expiring in 2018, Georg Seiler […]

The FIA's World Motor Sport Council has confirmed that the German Grand Prix has been dropped from the 2015 calendar. Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone was unable to agree a deal with either the Nurburgring or Hockenheim and consequently the race will not take place. There will not be a replacement for the race, meaning that this year's calendar will comprise 19 events. The Nurburgring had been set to host the race but talks with Ecclestone collapsed, while discussions with Hockenheim were also unsuccessful. Hockenheim […]

This year's German Grand Prix is set to be staged at Hockenheim, according to Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone. Hockenheim and Nürburgring have shared hosting duties of the race since 2007 and the 2015 edition was provisionally set to be held at the Nürburgring . With organisers having yet to sign a contract, the venue for the 2015 race has remained uncertain on the most recent Formula 1 calendar and Ecclestone said on Thursday that Hockenheim will host this year's event. "It's going to be […]