Hamilton praying for rain as heatwave hits Hockenheim GP

London - Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton is backing Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel to shrug off a run of poor form and mistakes after another nightmare weekend in Britain. AP Photo/Luca Bruno. SoLarMovies While Mercedes driver Hamilton took his record sixth British Grand Prix on Sunday, Vettel rear-ended Red Bull's Max Verstappen, was handed a 10-second penalty for causing a collision and finished 16th. The German, a four-times world champion, has been beaten in the last three races by 21-year-old team mate Charles Leclerc and is 100 points behind Hamilton in the overall standings after 10 rounds. The speculation about the German's future at Ferrari, the team he joined from Red Bull in 2015, and even his possible retirement from Formula One refuses to die down despite Vettel's assurances he is committed and staying. "I loved competing against Ferrari last year. I wish that the battle today was with the Ferraris, it’s different when you’re racing within a team...

London - Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton says drivers know what makes a good circuit and want to help the sport select those that offer real racing rather than ones chosen for commercial reasons. Photo Matthew Childs/Reuters Pool Via AP. YesMovies Sunday's British Grand Prix, won by the Mercedes driver for a record sixth time, delivered plenty of thrills for a 141 000-strong crowd that flocked to Silverstone. Until last Wednesday, however, when Formula One announced a five-year contract extension, the windswept old airfield track that hosted the first world championship grand prix in 1950 faced an uncertain future. Hamilton, who had vowed previously to do all he could to keep the race on the calendar, said drivers needed to be part of the decision-making process when it came to what tracks the sport raced on. "We know better than anybody which track we can overtake (on) and which track we can’t," he told reporters after the race. SoLarMovies "There are...

London - Valtteri Bottas says he will be looking at the 'man in the mirror' to find a way to beat Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton after falling further behind the runaway Formula One leader in Britain. File picture: Matthew Childs / Reuters. FMovies The Finn was fastest in Friday practice and started Sunday's race at Silverstone on pole position and yet, as so often happens, it was five-times world champion Hamilton who celebrated on the top step of the podium. The gap is now 39 points, after Hamilton also bagged an extra point for the fastest lap despite having tyres that had already done more than half the race, with 11 of 21 rounds remaining. Hamilton has won seven races to two for Bottas, who led the championship early on, and looks unstoppable with the momentum flowing his way. Sports psychologist 'not for me' The Briton's former team-mate Nico Rosberg said he had spent two hours with a sports psychologist every other day during an intense and dra...