F1 Madness

It was a Friday of domination by Mercedes for the season opening Australian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton took the honors in both Friday practice sessions finishing top of the time sheets. It looked like Mercedes were unreachable after Free Practice 1, but things closed up a bit in Free Practice 2 and, as it stands, […]

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TEAM REPRESENTATIVES –Toto WOLFF (Mercedes), Maurizio ARRIVABENE (Ferrari), Christian HORNER (Red Bull Racing) PRESS CONFERENCE A question to all of you to start with, what sort of shape are you in relative to each going into this new championship? After all, one of your is likely to be the world champion team at the end […]

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DRIVERS – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes), Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari), Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing) PRESS CONFERENCE Let’s start with our world champion and six-time pole sitter here at Albert Park, Lewis Hamilton. Lewis, I think you said over the winter that you felt that last year was the best you’ve driven in your Formula 1 career. Do […]

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Daniel Ricciardo ended on top of the time sheets for Red Bull on the first day of the pre-season test for the 2018 Formula 1 season. Ricciardo’s time of 1:20.179 was 0.170s faster than Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas who’s best time of the day was a 1:20.349. Ricciardo also clocked up the most laps of the day […]

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Red Bull became the third constructor to launch their 2018 contender online after Haas and Williams. Red Bull kicked off the week of car launches with their Aston Martin-Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer RB14 in a special edition blue and black testing livery. Red Bull say that their racing livery will be revealed when testing commences […]

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As the weeks tick by we get closer to the car launches and pre-season testing. Here’s the schedule of when the teams are launching their cars and when pre-season testing will take place.     2018 Car Launches                   2018 Pre-Season Testing Schedule

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Formula One together with the FIA have announced that Grid Kids will replace Grid Girls. The initiative called Grid Kids will work with the Grand Prix promoters and ASNs – the FIA-recognised national sporting authorities – who will in turn provide a unique experience for youngsters and their parents to experience the build up to a race […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes) 2 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 3 – Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari)   PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Martin Brundle and David Coulthard) MB: Valtteri, your third victory of the season, but surely the most important day in your racing career. In a straight fight you’ve beaten a four-time world champion, same […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes) 2 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 3 – Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari)   TRACK INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Mark Webber) Q: Valtteri, you’re impressive mate, you’ve even turned up with no car. How did you get pole with no car? Valtteri BOTTAS: I’m a good runner! Q: You’re a very good runner. Also, […]

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Formula One tyre supplier Pirelli has announced two new tyre compounds for 2018 as well as new colours across the slick tyre range. From next year Pirelli will add two new compounds to the existing 5 compounds the already have. Enter the super-hard compound and hypersoft compound. The 2018 tyres, Pirelli say, are a step […]

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