F1 Madness

Red Bull Racing has announced a renewed partnership with IBM Spectrum Computing. The agreement has extended the partnership to 2020 and will be marked with IBM Spectrum Computing branding on the cars and in the garage. Red Bull uses IBM solutions in order to manage data and was used in the design of their 2016 […]

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Over the course of a grand prix weekend a driver normally runs close to two hundred laps. It’s uncanny then that everything can be made or undone by one lap. In Saturday qualifying, a wet and dry session, Lewis Hamilton steered his Mercedes to pole position in dominant fashion. While teammate Nico Rosberg qualified second […]

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Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg set the quickest time in the first free practice session ahead of the Austrian grand prix. The first free practice session for the 2016 Austrian grand prix got underway in sunny conditions at the Red Bull Ring. The drivers quickly hit their stride with some blistering lap times early on in the […]

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From the medieval city streets of Baku the Formula 1 paddock travels to the crisp countryside of Austria for the eighth round of the 2016 championship. A case could never be made that Formula 1 lacks diversity. It swops the mostly tight confines of the Baku City circuit for the mountains and fresh air of […]

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Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner has announced that Carlos Sainz Jr. will remain at Toro Rosso for 2017. It believed that Red Bull has enforced its option to retain the young Spaniard for next season. “We took up his option earlier this week, so he is committed to Red Bull for an extra 12 […]

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If you’d asked most people to point out Azerbaijan on a map they would probably struggle. If you then told them that its capital city Baku is going to host its first F1 race in 2016 it would possibly have been met with reluctant enthusiasm. Nevertheless, on the edge of the Caspian Sea the Azeri […]

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Lewis Hamilton set the quickest time in the first free practice session ahead of Sunday’s Baku grand prix. The first ever official Formula 1 session in Azerbaijan got underway in splendour as the cars and drivers had their first look at the Baku City circuit. Aesthetically the circuit and its surrounds create a terrific view […]

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Australian racing driver Daniel Ricciardo is believed to have agreed to an extension to his contract with Red Bull Racing. Ricciardo and the Red Bull team have been making news the last few weeks for all the wrong reasons. In Spain Ricciardo believed the team opted for the wrong strategy and cost him a shot […]

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DRIVERS: Carlos SAINZ (Toro Rosso) Nico HULKENBERG (Force India) Rio HARYANTO (Manor) Valtteri BOTTAS (Williams) Fernando ALONSO (McLaren) Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari) PRESS CONFERENCE Fernando, you were here earlier in the year in your capacity as an ambassador for this race. How much has changed since then?  Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, a few things have changed then. Obviously […]

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Too many times new F1 circuits are talked up and promised to be glorious showpieces that will electrify the racing. And then you end up with Valencia, a dull F1 street circuit somewhere in Spain that evokes more winces than grins. But the new hosts of the European grand prix may have hit on something […]

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