Archive | July, 2016
Posted on 31 July 2016. Tags: daniel ricciardo, f1, Formula 1, german grand prix, hockenheim, hockenheimring, lews hamilton, max verstappen, mercedes, red bull
DRIVERS 1 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2 – Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing) 3 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing) PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Kai Ebel) Lewis, congratulations. First of all, give us inside view of your rocket start, that we all have seen there? Lewis HAMILTON: Well, first please let me start with a big […]
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Posted on 30 July 2016.
Romain Grosjean, Carlos Sainz, and Nico Hulkenberg have all had penalties against them for various offenses ahead of the German Grand Prix race on Sunday. Haas’ Romain Grosjean will drop 5-places down the grid after a gearbox replacement. The Frenchman had to replace his gearbox after Free Practice 3 after just a few laps running […]
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Posted on 30 July 2016. Tags: daniel ricciardo, f1, Formula 1, german grand prix, hockenheim, hockenheimring, lewis hamilton, mercedes, nico rosberg, qualifying, red bull
DRIVERS 1 – Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 2 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 3 – Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing) TV UNILATERAL Nico, under pressure there: only one run in the end in Q3 after, we understand, an electronics glitch on your first run. How satisfying is this pole under those circumstances? Nico ROSBERG: Yeah, it was […]
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Posted on 30 July 2016. Tags: daniel ricciardo, german grand prix, kimi raikkonen, lewis hamilton, max verstappen, nico rosberg, qualifying, red bull, sebastian vettel
Nico Rosberg secured pole position for his home German grand prix, beating Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton by just over a tenth of a second. Hamilton drifted a little at Turn 1 and locked up into the hairpin on his final lap, pretty much costing him the pole position. Rosberg had suffered an electronics issue […]
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Posted on 30 July 2016. Tags: carlos sainz jr, daniel ricciardo, daniil kvyat, feflipe massa, fernando alonso, ferrari, german gp, german grand prix, kimi raikkonen, lewis hamilton, max verstappen, nico hulkenberg, nico rosberg, paddy lowe, red bull, romain grosjean, sebastian vettel, toro rosso, Valtteri Bottas, williams
Nico Rosberg completed a hat trick of the German GP practice sessions, leading the way during the final practice session ahead of this weekend’s race. Rosberg posted a time of 1:15.738 on his second super soft run, which was 0.057s clear of Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton has been summoned to the stewards for […]
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Posted on 29 July 2016. Tags: 2016, f1, fernando alonso, ferrari, force india, Formula 1, germany, hockenheim, jenson button, kimi raikkonen, lewis hamilton, manor, max verstappen, mercedes, nico rosberg, pirelli, red bull, sauber, toro rosso, toto wolff, williams
Nico Rosberg topped the timing sheet at the end of the second free practice session for the German grand prix. The Mercedes driver out-paced teammate Hamilton by four tenths of a second to end the 90 minute practice session with a quickest time of :1:15:614. Lewis Hamilton, 0.394 adrift, finished the session in second overall […]
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Posted on 29 July 2016.
Nico Rosberg finished on top of the time sheets for Mercedes in Free Practice 1 for the German Grand Prix. Rosberg lead a Mercedes 1-2 finish for FP1 at his home Grand Prix after setting a session best time of 1:15.517. His team-mate Lewis Hamilton managed a best time of 1:15.843, 0.325s off Rosberg’s pace. […]
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Posted on 28 July 2016.
Formula One team bosses have voted against the halo head protection that was supposed to be on the cars in 2017. In a meeting of the F1 Strategy Group in Geneva on Thursday 28 July 2016, the teams have voted against the head protection which underwent testing at the most recent Silverstone test. The FIA […]
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Posted on 28 July 2016. Tags: daniel ricciardo, f1, felipe nasr, ferrari, force india, Formula 1, german grand prix, hockenheim, manor, nico hulkenberg, Pascal Wehrlein, red bull, rio haryanto, sauber, sebastian vettel, thursday press conference
DRIVERS – Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari), Nico HULKENBERG (Force India), Pascal WEHRLEIN (Manor), Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing), Rio HARYANTO (Manor), Felipe NASR (Sauber) PRESS CONFERENCE Sebastian, let’s start with you, if we may. News yesterday that Ferrari is replacing technical chief James Allison with Mattia Binotto. Can you give us your thoughts on that? Sebastian […]
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Posted on 28 July 2016. Tags: 2016, f1, fernando alonso, ferrari, force india, Formula 1, germany, hockenheimring, jenson button, kimi raikkonen, lewis hamilton, manor, mclaren, mercedes, nico rosberg, renault, sauber, sebastian vettel, williams
The last time the F1 paddock visited Germany’s Hockenheimring was in 2014. Back then Mercedes’ dominance was just getting into its stride and Sebastian Vettel was still a Red Bull driver. Given the amount of things that have changed it feels impossible that the race around the Hockenheimring was just two years ago. In 2016 […]
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