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    Fans in stitches at ‘worst name for a team in F1 history’ as Alfa Romeo rebranded for upcoming season

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    FANS have been left in stitches after seeing Alfa Romeo’s rebranded name for the next F1 season.The Italian carmaker has seen its spot in the 2024 season confirmed alongside the likes of Red Bull Racing and Mercedes.
    Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake has been rebranded for the new F1 seasonCredit: Getty
    The Sauber-works team has agreed to a new sponsorship deal with Australian streaming platform Kick.com.
    The F1 team finished 9th in the Constructors’ Champions in the 2023 season.
    For the 2024 season, the team will have a new name of Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber thanks to their rebrand.
    And F1 fans have not been won over by the name as they remained unimpressed on social media.
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    One fan posted: “Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber might be the worst name for a team in F1 history.”
    A second commented: “Worst name ever.”
    A third wrote: “This is terrible! Personally don’t like it. It just doesn’t sound cool.”
    A fourth said: “How did they go from ✨Alfa Romeo✨ to this? 😭.”
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    A fifth complained: “I can’t get over why ‘Team’ is in the middle of the name….?”
    Another added: “Kick Stake Sauber F1 Team makes much more sense, no? Still sounds w**k, but makes more sense…”
    Red Bull Racing enjoyed huge success during the most recent season.
    The team won the Constructors’ Championship with 860 points.
    While driver Max Verstappen won the driver’s title having won 19 races. More

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      Former Lewis Hamilton F1 team-mate strips to budgie smugglers in bizarre video as fans say ‘what did I just see?’

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      A FORMER team-mate of Lewis Hamilton stripped down to his budgie smugglers to leave fans stunned in a bizarre new video.Valtteri Bottas, 34, currently competes in Formula One for Alfa Romeo.
      Valtteri Bottas is a former team-mate of Lewis Hamilton at MercedesCredit: Splash
      Now the Alfa Romeo driver has stunned fans in a new advertCredit: Instagram / @radlgrvl
      The Finn stripped down and left little to the imagination in the now viral clipCredit: Instagram / @radlgrvl
      Bottas trotted off in budgie smugglers and fans were quick to comment on the strange sceneCredit: Instagram / @radlgrvl
      The Finn, who has recorded 10 wins and 67 podiums throughout his career, started out with Williams in 2013.
      He then moved to Mercedes in 2017, where he raced alongside legendary Brit Hamilton for four years prior to switching to Alfa Romeo.
      However, it was not Bottas’ displays on the track that got fans talking this week after a clip emerged of him starring in a new advertisement.
      The commercial was for FNLD GRVL – a gravel cycling race across the roads outside of Lahti, in Finland that was created by the driver.
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      It shows him appearing in a white robe that he quickly rips open, revealing some multi-coloured tight trunks – seemingly sponsored by Australian beer Victoria Bitter.
      Bottas then wipes some sun cream under his eyes before pulling a large bag away, showing his bum covered in the words “budgie smugglers” on the back of his trunks.
      “What did I just see,” asked one fan as the clip began to circulate on social media.
      Another stated that it was a “sight for sore eyes” while another exclaimed: “They are tight.”
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      A fellow fan also added: “I can never unsee that.”
      Meanwhile, Bottas said this week that he and his Alfa Romeo team are just now starting to fully understand their latest card upgrade.
      Both he and team-mate Zhou Guanyu finished eighth and ninth in their last outing at the Qatar Grand Prix.
      And ahead of this weekend’s next GP in Austin, Texas in the USA, he said: “I feel like we definitely made some progress now, and finally understand 100 per cent the upgrades.
      “Of course, the next race is quite a different track again, but it seems like we were definitely a bit more competitive this week.”
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      F1 star Esteban Ocon’s seat SNAPS IN TWO after horror crash at Hungarian Grand Prix with star rushed to medics

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      ESTEBAN OCON suffered a horror crash during the Hungarian Grand Prix.Ocon’s seat broke in two after he collided with Alpine team-mate Pierre Gasly and Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu at Turn 1.
      Esteban Ocon’s seat snapped in two after a freak accident at the Hungarian Grand PrixCredit: AFP
      Ocon collided with Alpine team-mate Pierre Gasly and Alfa Romeo’s Zhou GuanyuCredit: AFP
      Ocon was rushed to the medical centre after the incident but was thankfully well
      The French driver and Gasly had to retire with the former rushed to the medical centre for checks.
      Thankfully, it was soon confirmed from his team that the 26-year-old is in good health.
      Formula One fans were left in shock after witnessing the freak accident between the three drivers.
      One fan tweeted: “Oh my God….that’s terrifying. I hope he is ok.”
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      Another commented: “That’s scary, hope he’s fine!”
      A third posted: “Damn. That’s a nasty impact. I hope he’s ok.”
      This fan said: “Oh, my goodness. I hope he will be okay.”
      And that one stated: “Ugh not estie bestie.”
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      Guanyu clipped the rear of Gasly’s car and that led to him colliding with Ocon.
      The Alfa Romeo driver was slapped with a five-second penalty for the incident.
      But both Alpine cars sustained so much damage they could not complete the race. More

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      F1’s Valtteri Bottas sits naked in sauna with reindeer hat as Lewis Hamilton’s ex-team-mate prepares for Singapore GP

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      FORMULA ONE star Valtteri Bottas has found a unique way to prepare for the Singapore Grand Prix.Bottas, 33, has been gearing up for Sunday’s race by sitting in a sauna naked with nothing but a reindeer hat on.

      Valtteri Bottas posed naked inside a sauna with nothing but a reindeer hat onCredit: INSTAGRAM / BOTTAS
      Valtteri Bottas has found extreme ways to prepare for big Formula One racesCredit: INSTAGRAM / BOTTAS
      The Alfa Romeo driver shared a clip on Instagram showing him setting the temperature to 100 degrees Celsius and watering the coal.
      Bottas said: “Singapore prep for some. Finnish daily ritual for us.”
      The Finnish star also issued the following caption: “Some call it heat training but for others it’s just a daily ritual.”
      This is not the first time Bottas has found an extreme way to prepare for a big race.
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      The star driver did the same thing in May when he swum in the ice-cold waters of Aspen.
      Bottas has been enjoying a new lease of life ever since he left Mercedes for Alfa Romeo earlier this year.
      The 33-year-old revealed he almost quit F1 in 2018 while team-mates with Sir Lewis Hamilton.
      Bottas said: “At the end of 2018, I almost stopped, it was so close.
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      “Just because of the fact that I couldn’t understand and take the fact that I couldn’t beat Lewis in those two years.
      “I put so much pressure on myself. Towards the end of 2018, especially when I started to have the support role in the team, I really couldn’t take it, I really struggled. It was not fun.
      “The last four or five races of 2018 were more painful because you should enjoy F1 and it is pretty cool, but it wasn’t that at all.
      “So I had a good break between the two seasons and really had to think things through.” More