sky sports F1 | Lewis Hamilton exclusive: Creating a lasting impact beyond breaking F1’s records

“You want to look back and say I was a part of something much bigger than myself, than my team, than the sport, and I did it with a whole group of people and a lot of force against us, but also a lot of force because there was many of us pushing in the same direction”

Lewis Hamilton has just become Formula 1’s new record holder for race victories and could, within a space of the next fortnight, also equal the record number of championships with a seventh world title.  —read more—

F1 | Bottas beats Hamilton to take pole at Imola as Verstappen survives Q2 scare to take 3rd

Beating Lewis Hamilton is no easy feat these days, but his Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas found a way to do just that at Imola as he took a sensational pole position for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

The Finn trailed Hamilton by just 0.031s after the first runs, but having topped both opening segments of qualifying, Bottas found the time when it mattered, lighting up the timesheets to take pole by 0.1s.

Mercedes were in a class of their own at the historic and picturesque Italian track, with Max Verstappen unable to get within half a second of the silver cars, but fortunate to get to Q3 at all after encountering a power issue in Q2.  —read more— 

CNN | High speed trains are close to doubling their speed

Japan’s first bullet train left Tokyo in 1964 running an average of 80 mph. High speed lines now run all over the world and the newest ones are pushing 370 mph.  —watch—

CNN politics | They call themselves ‘Wives of the Deplorables’ because their husbands support Trump

(CNN) – Carole Catherine did not know her husband, Tim, supported Donald Trump until the day after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. She called him the next morning crying.

“And he was like, ‘Yeah, of course she lost. She is an awful human being,’ ” she said.

“It was like a light went off for me. And I thought, ‘Oh boy, we’re going to have trouble.’ “

For the next three years, Catherine felt like she was living an alternate reality. Her husband was her high school sweetheart. A rekindled love after a first marriage, children and divorce. They barely fought for the first 11 years of their marriage. And now they were working through major ideological differences.  —read more— 

CNN | Girlfriend’s account of Waukegan officer killing Marcellis Stinnette varies greatly from police narrative

(CNN) – The girlfriend of Marcellis Stinnette, who survived the shooting that killed the 19-year-old in Waukegan, Illinois, last week, told reporters Tuesday the police harassed her and Stinnette before opening fire without warning after she drove away.

Following the shooting, she said, police took her away and threw a blanket over Stinnette while he was still breathing.

“I know he was still alive,” the 20-year-old mother of two said. She and Stinnette have a 7-month-old son together.  —read more— 

F1 | WATCH: Every one of Lewis Hamilton’s 92 F1 wins, from Canada 2007 to Portugal 2020

Witness Lewis Hamilton’s journey to a record-breaking 92 Formula 1 Grand Prix victories in this epic video that takes you from his maiden 2007 Canadian Grand Prix win all the way to his most recent victory in the Portuguese GP – the result that saw him break Michael Schumacher’s all-time wins record.  —watch video/read more—