F1 Features

As important and as intricate as the chassis design of a Formula 1 car can be, the most explicit way fans will view them is through their liveries and colour schemes.

“I tell you - the day we get beat by somebody who’s born in 2000 and upwards, we will know it’s time…”

Billy Monger’s story of his harrowing accident and inspiring comeback is one well told over the past two years and will, by his own admission, always shape his life. But it isn’t the story he wants to tell now.

Who have been the stand-out performers in Formula 1 so far this season? We crunch the numbers from our regular driver ratings and see who comes out on top. 1. Max Verstappen, Red Bull - 8.83

In the battle to set off the dominoes in the Formula 1 driver market, few would have expected Red Bull to be the team that made the first move.

The beginning of Formula 1’s summer break traditionally marks the beginning of another important period of the year: driver market silly season.

Off the back of four consecutive thrilling races, there is a sense of disappointment to be breaking up for Formula 1’s annual summer shutdown. 

Race day at the Hungaroring is one of my favourite days of the entire Formula 1 season. It’s got little to do with the circuit (it still needs big renovations) or the fact there’s a race coming later in the day, even one to the superb standard of Sunday’s affair.

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes – 9

Victory in Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix “felt like a first” to Lewis Hamilton, such was the five-time world champion’s glee at fighting back from running 20 seconds in arrears with 20 laps to go to win the race in remarkable fashion.

- Lewis Hamilton extended his lead at the top of the Formula 1 drivers’ championship with his eighth victory of the season in Hungary on Sunday.

If you had said following his maiden Formula 1 victory that Max Verstappen would have to wait more than three years for his first pole position, you would probably have been laughed out of the room.

- Max Verstappen claimed the first pole position of his Formula 1 career in qualifying on Saturday in Hungary, edging out Valtteri Bottas by just 0.018 seconds in the final stage of qualifying.

- Lewis Hamilton closed out Friday with the fastest time of the day as rain affected much of the running at the Hungaroring. Hamilton’s top time from FP1 proved to be the fastest of the day as rain in the second session meant Pierre Gasly’s P1 effort was six-tenths of a second down.

- Max Verstappen may have arrived in Hungary on Thursday as Formula 1’s form driver after two wins in the last three races, but the Dutchman was quick to downplay Red Bull’s chances of another victory. “Mercedes have been the most dominant so far this season,” he said.

After three thrilling races, Formula 1 heads to Budapest for the Hungarian Grand Prix, the final event before the championship’s traditional summer break.

Still riding high after a thrilling German Grand Prix at Hockenheim last weekend, the Formula 1 paddock makes the short hop over to Budapest this weekend for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The 2019 Formula 1 season reached its half-way stage as the German Grand Prix delivered one of the best races of recent times with a wet and wild spectacle. 

Formula 1 is not known for its underdog stories. It is unforgiving, brutal, often callous. And nobody knows that better than Daniil Kvyat.

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes – 5

- Max Verstappen claimed the seventh victory of his F1 career in style as he capitalised on mistakes for a number of his rivals to win a wet-dry thriller at Hockenheim.

On a weekend where the Netflix camera crew has seemingly been more present than ever, it was perhaps fitting that the German Grand Prix encapsulated the meaning of ‘drive to survive’ in Formula 1.

It was difficult not to feel nostalgic on Saturday when one of the most dominant and spectacular cars in Formula 1 history, the Ferrari F2004, took to the track at Hockenheim for a special demonstration run.

- Lewis Hamilton scored the 87th pole position of his Formula 1 career in Saturday’s qualifying session at Hockenheim, edging out Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by three-tenths of a second in the final Q3 fight.