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Lewis Hamilton is moving to Ferrari in 2025.

How Hamilton’s move to Ferrari will affect the sports betting market

Nobody is sure how he will cope with the Italian team and cars

Max Verstappen won the Belgian GP.

Belgian F1 review: The untouchables

Red Bull exerted dominance, with Ferrari still scratching their heads over strategy calls, in an action-packed race. The holidays are over and we’ve missed F1 …

Formula 1 flashback: Hometown disadvantage at Austrian Grand Prix

A Ferrari on fire, a strickened Sainz and a possible chink in the Red Bull armour exposed

Beware: ‘The Wall of Champions’ awaits

Montreal is fast and flat but its tricky chicanes tempt drivers to try to obtain some form of advantage

Global lockdowns owing to the coronavirus epidemic may have directed traditional sports fans towards their virtual replacements, but the future of both industries remains uncertain.

Coronavirus and the virtual sports revolution

In a country with more than 35 000 Covid-19-related deaths at the time of writing and an economy staring into an uncertain abyss, the fate of an incomplete football season really…

Changing tracks: The Yellow Pages South African Grand Prix in 1993 at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in Kyalami drew the crowds. (Pascal Rondeau/Getty Images)

F1 flirts with a return to SA

Motosport’s top competition is dropping hints of coming back, but would we want this to happen?

‘No panic’: F1 testing took place in Barcelona this week while Ferrari took precautions against Codiv-19 at its headquarters in Maranello, Italy, an area affected by the coronavirus.  (Florent Gooden/DPPI)

Formula One faces testing times over coronavirus

The F1 world championship, which gets under way in Melbourne on March 15, had already lost the Chinese Grand Prix from its schedule

Animal lover: Lewis Hamilton previously drew ire on social media when he posted a picture of himself cuddling a lion cub.

Hamilton stirs up social media storm with pro-vegan post

The five time world champion said that the only way to save the planet is to go vegan

Niki Lauda won the Formula One drivers’ world championship three times, in 1975 and 1977 for Ferrari and in 1984 with McLaren. (Getty)

Sporting world mourns death of ‘true legend’ Niki Lauda

The legendary formula one driver died at the University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland on Monday night surrounded by his closest family members

A Brazilian flag with an image of late Brazilian former Formula One World Champion Ayrton Senna. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

Ayrton Senna: Brazil mourns ‘superhero’ 25 years after his death

Apart from his exceptional driving skills, his attention to other elements of the sport set him apart from other drivers

US giant Philip Morris International, whose Marlboro brand was long associated with Ferrari, re-entered the sport last October. (Gallo Images)

No smoke without fire: Tobacco companies in quiet return to Formula One

​Tobacco giants Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have formed partnerships with scientific research subsidiaries and Formula 1 teams

The seven-time world champion — a record that still stands — will turn 50 on Thursday. (Getty)

Brawn understands wall of secrecy around stricken Schumacher

Schumacher suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident in December 2013 and has not been seen in public since

There are renewed calls for citizens to directly elect their president and other representatives.

F1 changes are revving up a storm

The departure of key figures has cleared the track to make racing appealing to a younger generation.

Lewis Hamilton waves the Union flag with the words ‘Hammer time’ in celebration after winning the world championship at Abu Dhabi on November 23 2014.

‘King of F1’ Hamilton takes championship with victory at Abu Dhabi

Now two-time world champion Lewis Hamilton was lauded by Britain’s Prince Harry as being a "legend", while media branded him the king of Formula 1.

Hamilton, Rosberg take F1 championship down to the wire

All Lewis Hamilton has to do to clinch this year’s F1 championship is to win the next race but teammate Nico Rosberg will not go down without a fight.

Marussia Formula One driver Max Chilton

More F1 teams could face failure after two teams’ departure

Caterham and Marussia have dropped off the F1 radar, and Max Mosely warns that they may not be the last to do so as the big teams rake in more money.

Rosberg’s wrong turn a new twist in F1 championship

Overall leader Nico Rosberg feels the pressure as Lewis Hamilton keeps the F1 drivers’ championship open with his victory at the Italian Grand Prix.

Michael Schumacher will undergo further treatment at a hospital in Switzerland.

Michael Schumacher out of coma

F1 legend Michael Schumacher has emerged from a five-month induced coma following his skiing accident in December.

Germany’s Sebastian Vettel.

F1: Vettel joins greats with Indian win

Sebastian Vettel roared into the record books as F1’s youngest four-times world champion after winning the Indian Grand Prix three years in a row.

F1: Webber on pole ahead of Vettel in Japan

Australian Mark Webber has led a Red Bull front row sweep and denied team mate Sebastian Vettel a fifth successive Japanese Grand Prix pole position.