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Ferrari will retain a special payment from Formula 1 under a blueprint for the sport's future. The Italian team receives $100 million a year (about £70m) as a heritage bonus in recognition of their status as the only team to have contested every season since the start of the world championship in 1950.

McLaren's Fernando Alonso thinks it is "sad" that Formula 1's competitive order has become so predictable.

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner says that Formula 1 needs to pursue an aggressive timetable of "a couple of months" on achieving agreement on the sport's future.

Haas has reshuffled their pit crew and introduced an extra fail-safe system to help prevent a repeat of the Australian Grand Prix tyre-change blunders that led to the early retirements of both Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen.

Haas driver Kevin Magnussen has urged Liberty Media to ignore feedback from drivers, who he says "don't care about making the show better".

Renault's Carlos Sainz still drives a Volkswagen golf when away from the track, the first car he ever bought.

 
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Wasn't F1 in 2018 meant to be the Lewis Hamilton show?

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton started the season as the hot favourite to beat his rival Sebastian Vettel to the achievement, but the Ferrari driver now has a 17-point lead after victories in the first two races of the season.

Vettel's win in Bahrain on Sunday demonstrated both the size of the task facing Hamilton and the incredibly high level of competition at the front of the field.

Hamilton was pleased to rescue a podium finish in third place from a race he started ninth, survived a collision with Red Bull's Max Verstappen and pulled off a spectacular overtaking move that saw him pass three cars in almost one manoeuvre.

This was the 49th victory of Vettel's career.
 
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Lewis Hamilton says Verstappen lacks respect after Bahrain collision.

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton criticised Red Bull's Max Verstappen for a lack of respect after the two collided during the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Hamilton said: "It was an unnecessary collision. There needs to be a certain respect between drivers."
"It didn't feel that respectful. It was a silly manoeuvre from him because he didn't finish the race."

Verstappen, who retired with a broken differential, insisted Hamilton was in the wrong as they collided when the Red Bull pushed Hamilton wide as they ran side by side through Turn One.

"I had a good run on to the straight and going for the inside under braking I was next to him, going in to the corner I was ahead," Verstappen said.
"Of course you always try to squeeze each other a bit. I think there was still enough space on the left but he drove into my left rear and gave me a puncture and also destroyed the diff."

Hamilton added: "He ran me out of road, which I felt at the time was just unnecessary. He was past. I couldn't get by. There was no need to push by."
"It was frustrating because it could have been me out of the race and it ended his race and there was not much I could do to avoid him."
He added to the media: "He is tending to make quite a few mistakes and it was unnecessary for him to do that."

That is a reference to a series of errors Verstappen has made so far this season.
Verstappen crashed in qualifying in Bahrain on Saturday, blaming an unexpected power surge for the incident.
He also over-drove in the opening laps of the first race of the season trying to pass Kevin Magnussen's Haas, damaged his car running off track and then spun, an incident that led to him finishing the race sixth rather than fourth.

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner described the Hamilton-Verstappen clash as a "racing incident".

The Briton, who went on to finish third in the race, appeared to use an expletive to describe Verstappen when discussing the incident with race-winner Sebastian Vettel and runner-up Valtteri Bottas in the green room before the podium after the race.




 
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Max Verstappen has shrugged off Lewis Hamilton's criticism of him following the Bahrain Grand Prix and defended his move on the four-time world champion that led to the pair colliding.

Hamilton says he and his Mercedes team must improve communication after his third‑place finish at the Bahrain Grand Prix.
The Briton will meet senior members of his team before the Chinese Grand Prix to discuss the issue, which he believes is costing him points.

Russian driver Sergey Sirotkin says he and the Williams team "looked like idiots" during a poor weekend in Bahrain.
Paddy Lowe says Williams need to band together and "work intelligently and diligently" to solve their pace problem.
 
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No video Mike.:(

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Works on PC not on my phone though. Saw this earlier, I guess that's why they introduced a pit lane speed limit.;)

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Makes you realise how dangerous the pit lane used to be, going through there pretty much as fast as you liked.:eek:

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Loved this bit .... :D

More Raikkonen gold
Kimi Raikkonen is famous for his way of responding to media questions, and he lived up to it ahead of the Bahrain GP weekend when he was asked how he would change Formula 1.

Kimi's response was as illuminating as usual.

"I don't have the power so what's the point thinking about it?"

Amid all the talk of change, Kimi is one thing many fans would like to keep the same.
 
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