- Ex-Red Bull Formula 1 driver David Coulthar﷽d believes only the “r🎀acing Gods” can prevent Max Verstappen from beating Lewis Hamilton to this year’s title.

Verstappen trails Hamilton by a single point going into this weekend’s Portugue🙈se Grand Prixꦗ.

In an interview with the , Coulthard said: “So the only thing that I think can stand in the way of Max and Red Bull Racing really taking this championship is the racing Gods maybe getting involved in a few things with reliability because he is definitely experienced enough, he is definitely mature enough, which at 23 seems incredible but he is ready. He is more thaไn ready.”

🀅Coulthard also t🥀hinks George Russell’s actions towards Valtteri Bottas at Imola are a clear indication the British driver is desperate to take his seat for 2022.

“I think George is the real deal. He’s great on track, great off track. What he experience🐻d in Imola was the growing pains of going from being a young man into a more experienced man.

- After signing Ben Hodgkinson from the reigning world champi﷽ons, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has ruled oℱut signing ex-Mercedes engine guru in Andy Cowell. ()

- Marko also suspects the mistakes Lܫewis Hamilton made at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix were a resultꩵ of the pressure he was put under by Verstappen. ().

- Daniel Ricciardo is ๊confident he can win his maiden Fဣ1 title with McLaren.

“Yeah… I mean, if it’s a ye🌺s or no, then it’s yes. Is it this year? No,” Ricciardo told Australian publication EFTM, as .

“But already seeing the first couple of races and I look at even my lap at the weekend [aꦡt Imola] and I’m still pretty confident I’m not getting everything out of it, and I was four-tenths off pole or something. So even with that, the 💯team’s closed the gap a bunch.”

- Paddy Lowe has revealed Mercedes deliberately ran its power unit in 2014 in “idle mode” to ensure it didn’t💝 dominate races and thus avoid being pegged back by the FIA in terms of regulation changes. ()