F1 Madness

DRIVERS – Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari), Nico HULKENBERG (Force India), Pascal WEHRLEIN (Manor), Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing), Rio HARYANTO (Manor), Felipe NASR (Sauber) PRESS CONFERENCE Sebastian, let’s start with you, if we may. News yesterday that Ferrari is replacing technical chief James Allison with Mattia Binotto. Can you give us your thoughts on that? Sebastian […]

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The last time the F1 paddock visited Germany’s Hockenheimring was in 2014. Back then Mercedes’ dominance was just getting into its stride and Sebastian Vettel was still a Red Bull driver. Given the amount of things that have changed it feels impossible that the race around the Hockenheimring was just two years ago. In 2016 […]

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After speculation about his future at Maranello, Ferrari have announced that they will part ways with Technical Director James Allison with immediate effect. Following Allison’s departure at Ferrari Mattia Binotto will take on the role of Chief Technical Officer. Allison’s future at Ferrari has been in doubt for the past few weeks after a lacklustre 1st half […]

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Mercedes team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were at odds with each other regarding yellow flag rules over the incident in qualifying which saw Hamilton back out of his lap because of a spin from McLaren’s Fernando Alonso and Nico Rosberg taking pole position. In the race, Hamilton took the lead from Turn 1 and […]

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The Hungarian grand prix marked the theoretical mid point of the 2016 season. Yet, after ten races a singular point was all that divided Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton in the championship fight. Throughout the weekend’s practice sessions and qualifying it was Rosberg who looked most comfortable. But it wasn’t long before Hamilton got the […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2 – Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 3 – Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing) PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Kai Ebel) Congratulations Lewis, you are the leader of the world championship right now, was it due to a tailor-made start, man? Lewis HAMILTON: Well, firstly a big thank you to all the fans […]

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Both Red Bulls, both Force India’s and Williams’ Valtteri Bottas get to keep their grid positions after a debate about the 107% rule application. Article 35.1 of the FIA Sporting Regulations deals with the 107% rule which deals with the drivers that have failed to set a time within 107% of the fastest lap time […]

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The stewards have ruled that Nico Rosberg did, in fact, slow down for the yellow flags in qualifying and will keep pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Rosberg was called to stewards late on Saturday evening after an alleged breach of Appendix H, Article 2.4.5.1 b) of the FIA Sporting Regulations. It was alleged […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 2 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 3 – Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing) TV UNILATERAL Nico, what a dramatic qualifying session. How difficult was it out there and just describe your elation when you saw you had taken pole position at the end? Nico ROSBERG: Yeah, it was a really challenging […]

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It was Nico Rosberg who claimed the pole position today during a pretty dramatic qualifying session today ahead of the Hungarian GP. His time of 1:19.965 secured him the first spot on the grid during a dramatic qualifying mostly as a result of the rain that lengthened the session considerably. Team mate Lewis Hamilton may […]

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