F1 Madness

The Renault F1 team became the third team to reveal its 2017 car, the Renault R.S.17, today in London. Following images released by Williams and Sauber of their 2017 cars, Renault revealed their car today in front of reporters and sponsors. The event was broadcast live on YouTube and Facebook. Renault have kept with the yellow […]

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With the 2017 field about to head into pre-season testing and with all the cars about to be unveiled the anticipation is building. The narrative for the new 2017 rules is that cars will be wider, bigger and faster with some saying that the cars will be 4-5 seconds a lap faster. Hence, several circuits […]

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The Williams revival has begun. Late last week the privately owned team revealed the first render of what their 2017 challenger, the FW40, will look like. As is always the case the first time a new F1 car is unveiled the team does not want to give away any of the major details until they […]

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McLaren – Fernando Alonso & Stoffel Vandoorne Given the results it’s produced over the last two seasons it’s safe to say that McLaren’s renewed partnership with Honda has been miserable. As proud and prominent a company Honda may be there is no doubt that they underestimated the task of re-entering the sport. Fernando Alonso and […]

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The Williams Formula 1 Team has announced that Dirk De Beer will join the team as Head of Aerodynamics. De Beer will commence his role at the Grove based team from 1 March 2017. His recent stint in F1 was at Ferrari alongside James Allison, who was announced as Mercedes Technical Director from 1 March […]

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The FIA have moved to clarify comments about their sale of the 1% holding in Delta Topco(The holding company of the commercial rights of Formula 1). A report on Forbes accused the FIA of a conflict of interest when selling the 1% share of Delta Topco, which at the time of sale to Liberty Media […]

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Former Ferrari Technical Director James Allison will take up the Technical Director Role at Mercedes. Allison, who left Ferrari in the middle of the 2016 season after a shakeup at Ferrari will join the Brackley based outfit from 1 March 2017 taking up the role previously held by Paddy Lowe. He will report directly to […]

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Mercedes – Lewis Hamilton & Valtteri Bottas Given their ominous and unbeatable run since the start of the hybrid era Merc automatically start the new year as favourites. However, this ‘theory’ is based solely on what’s gone before. In reality, there is nothing to suggest that the Silver Arrows’ dominance will continue into the vastly […]

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The administrators of Just Racing Services, the holding company of the Manor Formula 1 team which was in administration since early January 2017, were unable to find a buyer for the team and as a result the company had to close its doors on Friday 27 January 2017. The administrators were hopeful that a buyer […]

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Former F1 team boss Ross Brawn will return to F1 as Managing Director, Motor Sport as part of the new structure of the F1 business. The announcement was made by newly appointed F1 CEO Chase Carey on Tuesday evening. Carey also confirmed the appointment of former Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at ESPN, […]

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