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Coming into F1 as the 2017 F2 champion and a Ferrari academy driver, hopes that the young Monegasque driver would impress were high. He was expected to outperform his more experienced Swedish team-mate Marcus Ericsson. In 2017 Sauber finished bottom of the constructors' championship with just five points.
Welcome back to The Last Bite , our new column documenting the survival of traditional food establishments in a ramen-slurping, matcha latte-sipping, novelty cafe-obsessed world. As cities develop and dining habits change, can the dive bars and defiantly untrendy restaurants keep up?
It is perceived wisdom in F1 that there is a holy trinity, if you will, of today's drivers. They are the three multiple world champions on the current grid. They are the very best, three all-time greats: Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. 145 wins and 10 world championship titles between them.
Williams are one of Formula One's most successful teams. In fact, the third most successful team in the sport's history, behind Ferrari and McLaren. Nine constructors' championships, seven drivers' championships, 114 wins and countless podiums. Those are the bare facts. Their glory days challenging for titles are gone.
The Queen's Head is a classic East End boozer. Built in the 1830s, it was in this Grade II-listed Limehouse pub that the Queen Mother famously pulled a pint of Young's. A framed commemorative letter from Clarence House is proudly displayed at the bar.
Interlagos. Brazil. 2012. That was the last time a McLaren driver legitimately stood on the top step of a Formula One podium. Jenson Button had just completed the last of his 15 career Grand Prix victories. It was also Lewis Hamilton's last race for the team he grew up a part of, and with whom he won his first championship.
Mention the Holy Island of Lindisfarne and a few things come to mind: the Viking raiders in 793 AD, the , and a precarious causeway crossing . But this tidal island, situated a mile off the north Northumberland coast, has also become renowned for the production of one of the oldest alcoholic beverages in the world: mead.
"It's an Asian taco, isn't it?" says Frank Yeung of gua bao, the steamed buns after which he named his South London restaurant: Mr. Bao. "I just love them," he continues. "There are loads of places doing chicken satay or the Japanese yakitori-style, or sushi or ramen.
An unassuming industrial unit behind Doncaster College is where some of England's most successful pork pies are made. As a setting, it isn't especially glamorous, but who wants glamour from a pork pie? One man who does is Roger Topping of Toppings Pies, the pie manufacturers based in the unassuming unit.
Grand Prix racing returned to France for the first time in a decade, a country that deserves to have a place on every Formula One calendar. The Circuit Paul Ricard and the general organisation was not without its critics, however.