Niki Lauda is furious with Max Verstappen for colliding with Nico Rosberg at the start of the Mexican Grand Prix, saying he could have cost the Mercedes driver the championship. Lining up second on the grid, Rosberg came under pressure from the Red Bull man. Verstappen dived on the inside and made contact with the German, who took evasive action through […]
Just like sparrows getting back on song in the Spring, F1 teams are sounding their new engine voices one after the other. We’re not sure if it’s because it’s Valentines day that we’re getting these first heart beats, but after McLaren a while ago, Renault just fired up its 2017 car with a raucous tweet! […]
Renault driver Kevin Magnussen describes this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix as a “legendary” event on the Formula One calendar, and wishes it were still the season finale. Interlagos hosted several title deciders over the past decade, including Michael Schumacher’s final race before his first retirement in 2006, Kimi Raikkonen’s against-the-odds 2007 triumph and Lewis Hamilton’s 2008 world […]
McLaren-Honda racing director Eric Boullier believes that the development of its rivals power unit will eventually be capped and stagnate in 2017, which in turn should help Honda catch up. Honda’s home race last weekend in Suzuka was a massive disappointment as expectations for a good result were high given the power unit’s steady performance […]
Force India has announced that development driver Alfonso Celis Jr. will get another opportunity in the team’s VJM09 during Friday’s FP1 at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The 20-year-old will take over Renault-bound Nico Hulkenberg’s seat for the first 90-minute practice at the Yas Marina Circuit on the opening morning. It will be Celis’ sixth race weekend appearance this […]
Force India has announced that its 2017 chassis has already passed all of the mandatory FIA crash tests, and at the first attempt. All Formula One teams have to submit their new cars for safety testing before the start of the new season. The testing is particularly important this year because of new aerodynamic and […]
Lewis Hamilton will be telling Mercedes that he wants to race next season with the same team crew which surrounded him in 2016, with no changes or reshuffles in the works. Last winter, Mercedes decided to apply some permutations between the crews of Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, with the purpose of avoiding excessive complicities on […]
As nuclear-armed America hurtles into a completely avoidable crash with nuclear-armed Russia over Ukraine, you can now see the dangers of “information warfare” when facts give way to propaganda and the press fails to act as an impartial arbiter. In this sorry affair, one of the worst offenders of journalistic principles has been the New […]
Former McLaren and Ferrari driver Gerhard Berger isn’t ruling out an eventual return to Formula 1 of 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg, sometime in the future Berger, a close friend of the Rosberg family, was entrusted last summer with negotiating a new two-year contract for Rosberg with Mercedes, and knows the German driver particularly well. […]
Toro Rosso has announced that its new 2017 car has passed all of the FIA mandatory crash tests. All new chassis have to meet the crash test standards for safety reasons to ensure that the new car is fit for purpose and will protect the driver in the event of any accidents that occur during […]