F1 Madness

The Manor F1 team have announced that they will be ready to race come the season opener in Australia thanks to investor Stephen Fitzpatrick, the founder of energy company OVO, who rescued the team out of administration. Since then the team have been working away furiously behind the scenes to get things ready for them to […]

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Formula 1 tyre provider Pirelli has announced the tyre nominations for the Australian, Malaysian, Chinese, and Bahrain Grands Prix. For the Australian Grand Prix Pirelli will bring in the white medium and yellow soft compound tyres. In Malaysia, the Orange Hard and White Medium compound tyres will be used. Pirelli nominated these the two hardest […]

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The McLaren F1 Team have announced that Fernando Alonso will not participate in the Australian Grand Prix after doctors have recommended that the Spaniard rests to avoid further injury. A statement from the team said that although Alonso is perfectly healthy, the doctors have recommended that to avoid further risk of a second concussion he […]

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The Formula One’s Governing Body the FIA clarified the rule that permits only one helmet design for each driver for the season. The whole aim of the rule was to make drivers easily recognizable by the fans. The vote to implement the new regulations was voted through last month, the change has now been adopted […]

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After launching their car with a very interesting camouflage livery for testing, the Red Bull F1 team have gone back to their “traditional” racing colours for the rest of the 2015 season. The Milton Keynes based team have gone back to their more traditional dark blue livery. “It’s not the first alternative livery we’ve used […]

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Valtteri Bottas closed off Williams’ pre-season testing campaign by finishing fastest on the final day of the Barcelona test on the super soft compound in the morning session. Bottas’ time of 1:23.063 was 0.406s faster than Sebastian Vettel in the Ferrari who finished 2nd fastest. In fact, Williams felt very confident of their testing performance […]

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Lewis Hamilton made it two for two for Mercedes on the penultimate day of the Barcelona pre-season test. Hamilton set his fastest time of 1:23.022 for the day on Pirelli’s yellow soft compound tyre in the afternoon session after spending most of the afternoon in the garage. Felipe Massa in the Williams was second fastest […]

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Nico Rosberg threw down the gauntlet in testing today after setting the fastest time of the day and the pre-season test in Barcelona for Mercedes. Elsewhere on the track, Force India debuted their 2015 car the VJM08 after skipping the first test and taking part in the second test with their 2014 car. The other […]

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The former Marussia F1 Team, now known as Manor Racing F1 are a step closer to returning to the sport after the team name reflected on the updated FIA entry list for the 2015 Formula 1 World Championship The team was included in the provisional last last year subject to confirmation. Since then the bosses […]

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Fernando Alonso, today thanked his fans for their continued support following his crash at the first Barcelona test.

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