F1 Madness

Round three of the Formula 1 World Championship is already upon us and this weekend we are in Shanghai China for the 13th iteration of the Chinese Grand Prix. With it’s inaugural race in 2004 which saw over 250 000 people fill the grand stands, the Shanghai International Circuit has been a yearly feature on […]

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Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton will take a 5-place grid drop on Sunday’s race for the Chinese Grand Prix after a gearbox change. This after Mercedes examined his gearbox after the Bahrain Grand Prix and found it had taken some damage. To be on the safe side Mercedes decided to replace his gearbox to give him […]

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The World Motorsport Council (WMSC) officially approved a change to the 2015 Qualifying for F1 on Monday by e-vote. This turn around was prompted by teams standing united against a proposed aggregate qualifying solution. The widespread condemnation of the new 2016 format from fans and teams sent F1 management and the FIA scrambling for a […]

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F1 is set to return to the 2015 qualifying format after Bernie Ecclestone and the FIA agreed to the request from the teams. Team bosses met earlier on Thursday to decide on the new proposed aggregate qualifying format. In an unusual move, all the teams unanimously agreed in a letter sent to the FIA and Ecclestone not […]

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All eleven Formula One teams have taken a stand against the proposed aggregate F1 qualifying format, as well as the current elimination style F1 qualifying format, in a letter to F1 bosses. It is reported that teams have unanimously demanded that the sport reverts to the 2015 F1 season qualifying format in an effort to […]

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Pirelli has revealed the driver tyre choices for the upcoming Chinese Grand Prix and some interesting differences in tyre strategies have emerged. Pirelli will be supplying the medium, soft and super-soft tyres for the race. The two Mercedes drivers have made different tyre choices – indicating different strategies for the duo. Lewis Hamilton has chosen […]

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GP2 Champion and McLaren Reserve Driver Stoffel Vandoorne showed just what he is capable of on his debut F1 weekend. Vandoorne, who stood in for Fernando Alonso after he was declared unfit to race by the FIA medical delegate on the Thursday ahead of the race, claimed the Woking based teams first points of the […]

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For nine years the Bahrain grand prix was run under the hot desert sun. For nearly a decade it wasn’t a race marked as one to look forward to and it almost always produced the most lacklustre racing of a season. But it would only take pushing back the starting time a few hours and […]

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The introduction of a third available compound by Pirelli has positively added to the spectacle. Here is a look at the different strategies adopted by drivers during the 2016 Bahrain grand prix. In Friday’s second free practice session Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen competed a twenty lap run on the medium compound tyres. The stint showed up […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 2 – Kimi RAIKKONEN (Ferrari) 3 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by David Coulthard) Congratulations, your 16th victory, your fifth in a row. Any man that has done that has won a world championship, so a good day in the office. Nico ROSBERG: Oh for sure. It’s been […]

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