Lewis Hamilton stands on the brink of securing his fifth championship after winning six of the past seven races for Mercedes to lead his German rival by 67 points with four races remaining. read more

On Sunday, Vettel realised desperation is not enough. The German driver had qualified eighth at a time when he needed exclusively to win in order to keep distant championship hopes alive. read more

Lewis Hamilton led a Mercedes one-two at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday to move to the brink of a fifth Formula One world title. read more

Lewis Hamilton took a record-extending 80th career pole position in Japan on Saturday with Mercedes locking out the front row while Ferrari title rival Sebastian Vettel qualified only ninth. read more

Hamilton was allowed to claim a 70th career win when Valtteri Bottas was ordered to move over in Sochi — with the world champion describing it as “the strangest day” of his career. read more

Team orders, while contentious, are entirely legal in Formula One, and it makes sense for a team to maximize championship odds by strategically helping the driver who needs it most. read more

Valtteri Bottas moved aside to let Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton win the Russian Grand Prix and surge 50 points clear in the Formula One championship on Sunday with five races remaining. read more

Valtteri Bottas beat his Mercedes teammate and championship leader Lewis Hamilton to pole position for the Russian Grand Prix on Saturday, stirring up the title race. read more

The four-time champion German, who trails Hamilton by 40 points in the title race, clocked a best lap in 1min 34.488sec round the medium-speed Sochi circuit on the shores of the Black Sea. read more

With a 40-point lead on Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel in the title race, four-time champion Hamilton looks set to go into the final six races of the season in confident fashion after registering four wins in his last five outings. read more

As drama goes, it was too much — and too literal. The man who won that 2008 title by one last-corner point, Lewis Hamilton, coasted to victory in a very different race this Sunday. read more

Sebastian Vettel lost more ground in the Formula One drivers’ championship as Lewis Hamilton won the Singapore Grand Prix. read more

Lewis Hamilton took a brilliant pole position for the Singapore Grand Prix ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen under floodlights on Saturday. read more

Kimi Raikkonen, who won the 2007 Formula One title with Ferrari, will be heading back to Sauber from next season while Charles Leclerc will take his seat alongside Sebastian Vettel. read more

Kimi Raikkonen has started 287 grands prix, winning 20 since his debut in 2001 with Sauber, the team he will race for again in 2019. read more