Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton was AutoSportsNation’s 2018 in the Bernie Ecclestone Doofus Moment Award competition, narrowly defeating a game effort from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen – but to prove he was not done being a doofus in 2018, Hamilton gave a bonus performance at the recent BBC Sports Personality of the Year event where he proceeded […]
The 2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is in the books and with it, another Formula One racing season. Fittingly, it was a 1-2 Mercedes snoozer as Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton took the top two places with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel in a distant third. The race was as anti-climactic as the results and ASN awards […]
The 2017 Mexican Grand Prix is in the books and it brought conclusions to several 2017 F1 season races. Lewis Hamilton finished ninth in the race but those two points were enough to clinch the 2017 Formula One world championship for him – his fourth world title. His Mercedes teammate, Valtteri Bottas, finshed second behind […]
The United States Grand Prix is in the books and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton won easily with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel in second and his Ferrari teammate, Kimi Raikkonen, in the third and final podium position. Hamilton was the pole-sitter but Vettel was alongside him in the first row and managed to grab the lead on the […]
The 2017 Malaysian Grand Prix is in the books – and that is the last time we will see Sepang for the foreseeable future – as the circuit has been dropped from the Formula One racing calendar after nearly 20 years. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen is no longer a teenager [he is 20 years old […]
The 2017 Singapore Grand Prix is in the books – and that’s good news for Lewis Hamilton but bad news for Sebastian Vettel – Hamilton won the race after Vettel’s self-inflicted first-turn crash eliminated what was looking like it was going to be an easy victory for him. Vettel’s Ferrari sat on the pole and […]
The 2017 Italian Grand Prix is officially in the books and if you slept through it, you didn’t miss anything as it was a return to the Mercedes 1-2 snoozefests of 2015-16 with Lewis Hamilton taking a ridiculously easy victory and his teammate, Valtteri Bottas, following him around the track for 90 minutes. Sebastian Vettel […]
The 2017 Belgian Grand Prix is in the books and it was mostly a walk in the park for Lewis Hamilton as the Mercedes driver led start to finish with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel trailing close behind for the majority of the race. Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo benefited from an error by Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen – […]
The 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix is officially in the books and Ferrari got a 1-2 finish [a la Mercedes in 2016] with Sebastian Vettel winning – but not without some drama – followed by his teammate, Kimi Raikkonen and the third and final place on the podium being occupied by Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas after he […]
The 2017 British Grand Prix is officially in the books and it was a fairly straightforward affair once again as Mercedes went 1-2 with Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas and Ferrari pulled in third with Kimi Raikkonen. The winning drive by Hamilton could not have been easier as he was never challenged but Bottas moved […]
The 2017 Austrian Grand Prix is officially in the books and it was a fairly straightforward affair as pole-sitter Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes and his first row companion, Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari started 1-2 and finished 1-2 in the race. Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo finished third. Bottas got an amazing start that had both Vettel […]
The 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix is officially in the books and what a wild ride it was – with Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo eventually coming out on top followed by Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas in second and Williams’ Lance Stroll in third. Current ASN and F1 driver leader Sebastian Vettel and challenger Lewis Hamilton had a […]
The 2017 Canadian Grand Prix is in the books and it was an easy victory for Lewis Hamilton as Mercedes went 1-2 in a result reminiscent of last year. Hamilton went virtually unchallenged as a charging Max Verstappen clipped Hamilton’s main competitor – Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel – at the start of the race, damaging Vettel’s […]
The 2017 Monaco Grand Prix is in the books and it was a rare Ferrari 1-2 on the Cote d’Azur with Sebastian Vettel taking the honors of first place followed by his teammate, Kimi Raikkonen, and Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo finishing out the podium. The race was all Ferrari from the start as Raikkonen had […]
The 2017 Spanish Grand Prix is officially in the books and with Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton winning the race, he moves into second place in the AutoSportsNation Formula One driver rankings, past his teammate, Valtteri Bottas [who had his worse race of the year with an engine failure, knocking out Kimi Raikkonen and making a kid […]
The 2017 Russian Grand Prix is in the books and Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas won his first-ever Grand Prix, edging out Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel for the victory with Vettel’s teammate, Kimi Raikkonen taking a distant third to finish out the podium. After all was said and done, the race essentially boiled down to a single maneuver […]
The 2017 Chinese Grand Prix is officially in the books and that means we can update the AutoSportsNation Formula One driver rankings and various awards. The race was won by Mercedes Lewis Hamilton who led from start-to-finish and was mostly unscathed in a race which was reminiscent of last year’s Mercedes domination. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel […]
The 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix was conducted in a giant puddle of water, which didn’t prevent another 1-2 Mercedes finish but did help Max Verstappen claim third place in the race taking advantage of everybody else wanting the race to end. Lewis Hamilton won easily over a cruising Nico Rosberg who was one of those […]
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The 2016 USA Grand Prix was another Mercedes 1-2 snoozefest but there were some interesting moments that did not involve the Taylor Swift concert nor her teen female crowd. In the actual race, Lewis Hamilton easily won the race with his Mercedes teammate, Nico Rosberg, in a close second while Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo was […]