Byline
Indy Gill
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14 Mar 2026
China Sprint 2026: Russell Holds Off Leclerc After Safety Car
George Russell had the fastest car in the race that mattered most, but a first-lap clash from teammate Antonelli and a late safety car turned a comfortable sprint into a three-lap sprint to the flag.
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13 Mar 2026
Russell Takes Chinese GP Sprint Pole in the Final Sector
George Russell found time nobody else could find in the final sector at Shanghai, and by the time Sprint Qualifying ended the rest of the grid was arguing about second place.
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8 Mar 2026
Australian GP 2026: Russell Wins on a Lap 12 VSC Pit Call
George Russell beat a faster-closing Kimi Antonelli to open the new regulation era, but the race was really decided by who blinked first under the Virtual Safety Car.
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7 Mar 2026
Australian GP 2026: Russell Leads a Mercedes Front-Row Lockout
George Russell put nearly three tenths between himself and his own teammate, and the rest of the grid never got a look at either of them.
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28 Apr 2019
Baku 2019: Bottas Holds Off Hamilton by 1.5s From Pole
Valtteri Bottas led every lap from pole in Baku, yet Lewis Hamilton's average race pace was actually the quickest on the day, and the margin between them never grew comfortable enough for anyone to relax.
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27 Apr 2019
Bottas Beats Hamilton to Baku 2019 Pole After Leclerc Crash
Valtteri Bottas found all his advantage in one corner of one lap, and it was enough to deny Lewis Hamilton pole in a Baku qualifying hour that stopped, twice, for red flags.
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14 Apr 2019
Chinese GP 2019: Hamilton Beats Bottas Off the Line to Win
Bottas had pole by two hundredths of a second, but Hamilton had the start, and the whole afternoon in Shanghai followed from that one exchange at Turn 1.
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13 Apr 2019
Chinese GP 2019: Bottas Beats Hamilton to Pole by 0.023s
Valtteri Bottas found two hundredths of a second more than his own teammate when it mattered, and that was the whole story of a Shanghai qualifying hour Ferrari could not touch.
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31 Mar 2019
Hamilton Wins Bahrain 2019 After Passing Leclerc on Lap 48
Charles Leclerc set the fastest lap of the entire race and led for most of the distance from a maiden pole, yet it was Lewis Hamilton standing on the top step after a lead change on lap 48 turned the result on its head.
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30 Mar 2019
Leclerc Beats Vettel and Both Mercedes to Bahrain 2019 Pole
Charles Leclerc beat a four-time champion team-mate and both Mercedes to his first pole, and the lap sheet says he did it in the last five corners, not the long straights.
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16 Mar 2019
Australian GP 2019: Hamilton Pole, Ferrari 0.7s Off the Pace
Lewis Hamilton edged Valtteri Bottas by a tenth for pole at Albert Park, but the real story of Saturday was how far Ferrari fell and how far a teenager in a McLaren rose.
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25 Nov 2018
Hamilton Wins Abu Dhabi 2018 by 2.66s on One-Stop Plan
Lewis Hamilton claimed his eleventh win of a title year that had been decided weeks earlier, yet the final stint showed a Ferrari that suddenly had the legs to make it interesting.