4 h. ago British F1 driver apologises to Max Verstappen over Spanish GP controversy

Oliver Bearman has owned up to potentially impacting Max Verstappen's race in Spain after the Red Bull driver tried to lap the Haas before his George Russell controversy

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24 h. ago PDC darts star Rob Cross receives five year ban as director over £450k of unpaid taxes

Rob Cross, who won the PDC World Darts Championship in 2018, has been disqualified as a director for five years after his company went into liquidation with a tax debt of £450,000

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26 h. ago Red Bull plan if Max Verstappen gets F1 ban as truth of Daniel Ricciardo theory emerges

Max Verstappen is one penalty point away from a Formula 1 race ban and Red Bull will have to have a plan in place in the event the Dutchman has another run-in with the stewards

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44 h. ago Red Bull won't rule out Yuki Tsunoda losing seat to F1 star who 'exceeded all expectation'

Red Bull have already given Max Verstappen two team-mates so far this season after Liam Lawson was dropped for Yuki Tsunoda and a third is not beyond the realms of possibility

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44 h. ago Max Verstappen's Red Bull contract release, Helmut Marko clause, Ralf Schumacher theory

Max Verstappen is contracted to Red Bull until the end of the 2028 season, but it was confirmed by Helmut Marko that the 27-year-old has a release clause in his contract

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45 h. ago Max Verstappen warning sent as F1 hopeful receives ban and will miss next race

With Max Verstappen on the brink of a Formula 1 race ban, one Formula 3 driver has already triggered that punishment with an astonishing run of incidents over just two race weekends

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50 h. ago New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given record suspensions

Parliament votes to enact punishment after hours of fraught debate including attitudes towards Māori cultureNew Zealand legislators have voted to enact record parliamentary suspensions for three MPs who performed a Māori haka to protest against a controversial proposed law.Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and the leaders of her political party, Te Pāti Māori (the Māori party), Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, were barred for 21 days. Three days had previously been the longest ban for a New Zealand MP. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Red Bull boss admits Max Verstappen won't be happy as plan to help Yuki Tsunoda discussed

Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache knows that Max Verstappen is 'our main asset' and that means no prospect of changing the car so that it is easier for Yuki Tsunoda to drive

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67 h. ago Max Verstappen slaps away Netflix microphone during Lando Norris chat at Spanish Grand Prix

Max Verstappen spotted a Netflix microphone listening in to a conversation with Lando Norris as he batted it away having previously aired his frustration with the docu series

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3 d. ago Max Verstappen nears ban as F1 penalty points show which drivers are also in danger

Max Verstappen was hit with three penalty points for causing a collision with George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix, leaving him one point away from a ban, but who else is at risk of a suspension?

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3 d. ago F1 penalty point stock take – Lando Norris and other situations as Max Verstappen nears ban

Max Verstappen is veering dangerously close to a one-race ban thanks to his penalty points total, while we look at how many points each F1 driver has and how close they are to a suspension

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3 d. ago Toto Wolff sparks fresh row after Max Verstappen comments following Spanish GP

In the unexpected Formula 1 beef of the season, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff finds himself the enemy of taxi drivers in major Italian cities after his comments about Max Verstappen after the Spanish Grand Prix

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3 d. ago Rome’s taxi drivers outraged at claim they drive like F1’s Max Verstappen

Mercedes chief Wolff made comparison after Spanish GP‘It would be better if Wolff focused on his own team’Rome taxi drivers are in uproar at the suggestion they drive as badly as mad Max Verstappen, with some challenging Formula One drivers to navigate the traffic and potholes of the Italian capital as skilfully as they do.Verstappen, a four-time F1 champion, was issued with a penalty on Sunday after crashing into George Russell’s Mercedes in the Spanish Grand Prix. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Max Verstappen ‘won't change his driving’ despite one point from race ban

Following his farcical crash with George Russell during the Spanish Grand Prix, Max Verstappen will not change his driving style, according to a former F1 star

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3 d. ago What Max Verstappen did immediately after George Russell crash at Spanish GP revealed

Max Verstappen was involved in an extraordinary crash with George Russell late in the Spanish Grand Prix, only publicly admitting the following day that he had been in the wrong

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3 d. ago Max Verstappen ‘deserved black flag’ for George Russell collision, says Johnny Herbert

Former F1 driver Herbert believes Verstappen ‘overstepped the mark’ after ramming into Russell in Spain

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4 d. ago What does Max Verstappen have to do to receive F1 ban? Penalty point system explained

Max Verstappen's collision with Mercedes' George Russell in Barcelona on Sunday means the Red Bull star must now be spotless for the next two races as a suspension looms

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4 d. ago Toto Wolff baffled by Max Verstappen after ‘incomprehensible’ ram into George Russell

Verstappen was penalised by the stewards after deliberately driving into Mercedes driver Russell in Spain

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4 d. ago George Russell called out by Formula E driver Dan Ticktum in social media video

Russell stated nobody else would perform a move like Max Verstappen’s deliberate collision in the Spanish GP – apart from “one British driver in Formula E”

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4 d. ago Max Verstappen must control his road rage to cement his legacy as a great

There was no justification for the driver’s rash and futile act of retribution at the Spanish Grand PrixThere was no justification for Max Verstappen’s rash and futile act of retribution at the Spanish Grand Prix, when he deliberately drove into the side of George Russell’s car. The world champion knows it and on Monday he admitted as much with something of a mea culpa on social media. Yet it also must be considered that it is part and parcel of what makes Verstappen so competitive, albeit in this case in an entirely unedifying and self‑defeating fashion.Angry and frustrated at a sequence of events in Barcelona, including having to cede a place to Russell, Verstappen surrendered to his baser instincts. Having pulled over to give the place to Russell, he clearly then felt a point had to be made and accelerated back up the inside to collide with the Mercedes. Continue reading...

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