F1 Madness

Ron Dennis has been forced out of the McLaren after a long, tense boardroom battle between his long time business partner Mansour Ojjeh and Bahraini sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat. Dennis owns 25% of McLaren Group and Ojjeh another 25%. Mumtalakat owns the remaining 50%. Behind the scenes a tense battle has been raging between Dennis, Ojjeh and […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2 – Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 3 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing) PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Martin Brundle)   Q: Lewis, what a race! Lewis HAMILTON: Not too bad, huh! Q: You were out front but calling for the red flags and aquaplaning coming up the hill… talk us […]

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Manor Racing’s Esteban Ocon will drop 3 places down the grid after stewards found that he impeded Renault’s Jolyon Palmer in Q1. Palmer, who was on a flying lap at the time, had to run wide at Turn 4 to avoid Ocon. Despite Palmer still making it through to Q2 Ocon was penalized 3-grid spots […]

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Nico Rosberg took the honors for the fastest time in the third free practice session for the Brazilian Grand Prix. The session got off to a slow start after some rain earlier in the day left the track damp in some places. The damp track seen drivers venture out on the full wets for installation laps. […]

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TEAM REPRESENTATIVES – Christian HORNER (Red Bull Racing), Maurizio ARRIVABENE (Ferrari), Paul HEMBERY (Pirelli), Monisha KALTENBORN (Sauber), Guenther STEINER (Haas), Frédéric VASSEUR (Renault) PRESS CONFERENCE Christian, can we start with you: just looking at the track action that’s been going on today, the long run pace obviously looks quite close to Mercedes, but is it […]

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Formula 1 Governing Body the FIA has dismissed Ferrari’s appeal on Sebastian Vettel’s penalty at the Mexican Grand Prix which demoted him to 5th place. Vettel incurred the 10s time penalty for breaching Article 27.5 of the FIA Sporting Regulations when he moved under braking to block off Ricciardo who attempted a pass on Vettel […]

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Mercedes stamped their authority on the weekend after Lewis Hamilton set the fastest lap of the session with team-mate, Nico Rosberg just 0.030s off the pace in 2nd. Hamilton’s best time of 1:12.271 came courtesy of the soft tyres on a qualifying simulation. Rosberg’s time which was just 0.030s off Hamilton’s was done on his […]

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The Haas F1 Team confirmed that Kevin Magnussen will drive for the Kannapolis based team from 2017. This announcement follows the announcement that current Haas driver, Esteban Gutierrez will not be driving for the team from next year. Rumors and reports have been circulating for a few weeks that Kevin Magnussen will make the move […]

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Lewis Hamilton topped the time sheets at the end of the first practice session for the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos. Hamilton set his best time of 1:11.895 on the soft tyre just marginally faster than Red Bull’s Max Verstappen who set a best time of 1:11.991. Verstappen’s time came mid way through the session […]

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Ferrari have submitted a request to the Mexican Grand Prix stewards to review the decision to penalize Sebastian Vettel for his defensive move on Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo on lap 70 of the race at Turn 4. Ferrari say that a “a number of new elements” have come to light and believe that the penalty […]

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