F1 Madness

Nico Rosberg picked up right where he left off for Mercedes on Tuesday in testing after victory at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.  Rosberg’s fastest lap of 1:24.374 came in the morning session with an unmarked Pirelli compound was 0.307s quicker than his pole setting time for the Spanish Grand Prix. He also clocked […]

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It’s taken a bit of time but Nico Rosberg has struck back and with quite a dominant victory at that. The circuit de Barcelona Catalunya has always been a good hunting ground for the German/Monegasque but given the way his 2015 season has been going the weekend wouldn’t have started with Rosberg as the favourite. In […]

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It appears that a tear-off visor strip is to blame for Fernando Alonso’s brake failure at the F1 Spanish Grand Prix. The brake failure saw Alonso very nearly running over his pit crew and then retiring from the race. The McLaren team identified the issue during Alonso’s second stint and called him in to the […]

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Mercedes driver and current F1 World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton was not happy with the radio message from his team telling him to back off during the final stint of the Spanish Grand Prix. A slow start from second on the grid and a slow first pit stop compromised Hamilton’s race and meant that he […]

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The first in season test for 2015 will be held at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona from the 12th – 13th May 2015. Most of the teams have already confirmed their driver line up for the test apart from Manor, who will not be participating in the test. Below is the line up for both days […]

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Ferrari was one of the teams that brought a whole raft of updates for the SF15-T to the Spanish Grand Prix and were expecting a big improvement. They did, however, see an improvement, but it seems like Team Principal Maurizio Arrivabene was expecting more. Sebastian Vettel, who qualified in 3rd and finished the race in […]

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The stewards have decided not to penalize Toro Roso driver Carlos Sainz and Red Bull driver Daniil Kvyat for their incident on the final lap of the race. The two were fighting for 9th place and on the final lap of the Spanish Grand Prix the pair made contact into Turn 1. Kvyat, on the […]

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Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton says that his Spanish Grand Prix weekend was a difficult weekend and that it was about damage limitation. Hamilton qualified in 2nd position on Saturday after struggling for most of the weekend with the setup on his car. At the start he was slow to get off the line and had quite […]

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While managing to finish the race in 16th after starting in 14th, McLaren’s Jenson Button said that it was very scary to drive his car. “My car was pretty scary to drive today: as soon as I touched the throttle, the car just snapped away from me,” he remarked after the race. The twitchy rear […]

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DRIVERS 1st Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 2nd Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 3rd Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari)   PODIUM INTERVIEWS   (Conducted by Maria Serrat)   Well, Nico, first win here in Barcelona and first win of the season. Nico ROSBERG: It was a prefect weekend. Great to be on pole and great to win the race like this. Very, very […]

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