Russell Makes Daring Prediction About Ferrari and Perez Race Pace At Dutch GP

Stay informed on all the biggest stories in Formula One. to receive the Prime Tire newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday and Friday. After crushing the field for his eighth straight Formula One victory in Bahrain, it seemed odd for Max Verstappen to talk up his rivals' competitive merits. It had been a perfect day for Verstappen. He led the…

Let's address the foregone conclusion first: if proceedings at the Interlagos circuit on Sunday bear any correlation with a standard 2023 weekend, then Max Verstappen will win the Brazilian Grand Prix. The three-time world champion has won four of the six sprints this season and, of the three he won prior to this weekend, he converted all of them…

Despite George Russell's belief he is having his "best ever" Formula 1 season in terms of pure performance, the Formula 1 championship standings tell a one-sided story of intra-team dominance at Mercedes. Lewis Hamilton is pulverising Russell with six races left. After Russell finished ahead of Hamilton in a difficult first year of F1's new…

Red Bull has not to win a race at some point this season… right? Max Verstappen has won 10 straight races and Red Bull has won all 14 races so far this season, but if there is a type of race that Red Bull would struggle in, it could be this weekend in Singapore. Verstappen has said Red Bull won't have its strongest weekend at the Marina Bay Street…

The records are coming quickly for Max Verstappen and Red Bull this season. Not only has Red Bull won every race this season, which already set a record for most consecutive wins by a constructor, but Verstappen has matched a Formula One record with nine straight wins. If he wins this weekend at the Italian Grand Prix he will stand alone with that…

Monza also known as the Temple of Speed awaits 20 Formula 1 drivers this weekend, as Italy hosts what should have been its second Grand Prix of 2023. The Emilia Romagna GP was called off earlier after devastating floods hit the region. Max Verstappen heads to Monza on the back of nine straight victories and is the clear favourite. He kept out of…

After winning the Dutch Grand Prix last weekend, Red Bull's Max Verstappen now has the chance to make history by winning his tenth straight Formula One race at Monza. As expected, he's odds-on favourite with the bookmakers to win the 2023 Italian Grand Prix and surpass the current longest winning streak which was recorded back in 2013 by Sebastian…

Lewis Hamilton has admitted there is a "high chance" Max Verstappen and Red Bull will be able to win every race for the remainder of the 2023 season. The seven-time World Champion said Mercedes are working on a "steep gradient" to try and catch up to the runaway championship leaders, but remains hopeful that the team will be able to claw back the…

In a season where Max Verstappen has been utterly dominant, his home race where he has won twice from pole position since its return to the Formula One calendar isn't likely to be a place where he slips up. It's never a sure thing in racing, but this weekend's Dutch Grand Prix seems likely to be a Verstappen win. In fact, the odds have Verstappen…

After a month-long summer break, F1 returns to action with the Dutch Grand Prix this weekend. Ahead of the event, Need to Know is your all-in-one guide with stats, trivia, insight and much more. You can also see how fans have voted using our F1 Play predictor game. The first two practice sessions at the tight, twisty Zandvoort circuit will take…

The top tier of motorsport returns this weekend for the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. After a three-week break the teams face the same challenge as before: try to stop Max Verstappen and Red Bull. The 25-year-old starts as the clear favourite at 1.22 for the win, his teammate Sergio Perez languishes behind at 11/1 followed by Lewis Hamilton (13/1)…

Verstappen is unbeaten at his home circuit in the two times the Dutch Grand Prix has run in the modern era, winning both from pole and last year taking a clean-sweep of pole, victory and fastest lap. In a season where the Dutch driver has dominated, it is hard to expect anything other than a hat-trick of home victories this weekend. The interest,…

The 2023 F1 season is getting closer by the day as car launches are now just around the corner. February will be packed with reveals and pre-season tests and then, in March, the season kicks off in Bahrain. Before the season begins, it's always fun to just sit back and make some predictions on what to expect this season. Let's be fair, these are…

Despite Red Bull and Ferrari flying out of the gate while it suffered severely with porpoising and extreme drag, all the way to the summer break Mercedes insisted repeatedly that it could win a grand prix in 2022. But the opportunities to break that barren spell appeared to be running out. It was hurt by the late safety car at Zandvoort, couldn't…

The Maranello-based team currently holds a 40-point advantage with just two grands prix, plus this weekend's Interlagos sprint, left to run. Earlier in the year the prospect of Mercedes overhauling Ferrari seemed remote given the disparity in form at the start of the season, but solid scoring by Hamilton and team-mate George Russell has seen the…

George Russell has earmarked United States Grand Prix venue the Circuit of The Americas as the most likely place Mercedes could finally claim a victory in 2022, with the team pushing to return to winning ways before the season is out. Mercedes are without a win this season after enduring a difficult start to F1's technical regulation reset, which…

Location: Monza, Italy Course: Autodromo Nazionale di Monza Course Length: 5.79km Laps: 53 Max Verstappen won for the 10th time this season in front of a boisterous hometown crowd last week at Zandvoort. The defending champion first grabbed pole position over Charles Leclerc on Saturday before going on to win Sunday's race. The day was anything but…

Max Verstappen won his second straight home Grand Prix and the fourth race in a row last week at the Dutch Grand Prix. That personal record sees Verstappen match the 12th longest streak in F1 history. But his win wasn't guaranteed, nor was the biggest challenge from Ferrari. Both Mercedes had excellent race pace and were seeing terrific tire life…

In the end, the Dutch fans went home happy. Mind you, the perpetual EDM, free-flowing drinks and general party vibes meant they were never likely to go home too disappointed, but for extended periods of the Dutch Grand Prix their home hero, Max Verstappen, seemed at genuine risk of an unlikely loss. And a loss to arch rival Lewis Hamilton, no…

We just might have our three-way fight for victory at along last at the Dutch Grand Prix. We've been teased a three-team battle all season, and at some races we even saw glimpses of one, most recently in Hungary. But after qualifying in the Netherlands, where Red Bull Racing, Ferrari and Mercedes all had legitimate claims to pole position, it might…

Max Verstappen sits in a perfect position to win his home Formula One race for the second straight year and extend his lead in the drivers' championship over Charles Leclerc. Verstappen earned the pole position for Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix, a spot in which he won the race from a year ago in Zandvoort. Verstappen led every lap of the 2021 edition…

Max Verstappen claimed the pole position in Saturday morning qualifying at the Dutch Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc finished second and Carlos Sainz finished third. Verstappen is now -245 to win at DraftKings Sportsbook while Leclerc is second at+380. The new technical directive did nothing to deter Max Verstappen. Nor could the changing weather…

Location: Zandvoort, Netherlands Course: Circuit Zandvoort Course Length: 4.26km Laps: 72 The Formula 1 season resumed a week ago in Belgium after its traditional summer break, and Max Verstappen promptly returned to his winning ways. The weekend was made more difficult for the reigning world champion after he changed engine components, but he set…

Round two of the post-summer break triple header goes to Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix, and championship leader Max Verstappen will be looking to seal victory for the second year in a row at his home race. But what are his chances of claiming a 10th victory of the season this weekend? 188BET's odds are presented in decimal form: for every $1…