F1 Madness

The Manor Formula 1 Team have appointed former McLaren Sporting Director Dace Ryan as their Racing Director replacing the outgoing Graeme Lowdon. This announcement comes a day after Lowdon announced his departure from the team. Ryan will take over with immediate effect. Ryan left McLaren after he was found guilty by the FIA for bringing […]

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Brazilian drive Felipe Nasr will drop 3-places ahead of the Brazilian Grand Prix race on Sunday after impeding fellow countryman Williams’ Felipe Massa in Q1. Massa was on a timed lap with a few minutes left in the session when he came up to Nasr in the Sauber who was on a warm up lap. […]

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Nico Rosberg has secured pole position for Mercedes team ahead of the 2015 Brazilian grand prix. The first part of the hour-long qualifying session was highlighted by yet another issue for McLaren’s Fernando Alonso. The Spaniard grinded to a halt in the first session and them comically continued to sun himself at the side of […]

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Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets ahead of Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg for the final Brazil practice session ahead of this weekend’s grand prix, despite a few issues with his car. 20 minutes into the Brazil practice session, Hamilton’s car stopped on the Interlagos circuit at Bico de Pato while the […]

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TEAM REPRESENTATIVES: Franz TOST (Toro Rosso) Monisha KALTENBORN (Sauber) Federico GASTALDI (Lotus) Graeme LOWDON (Manor) Paul MONAGHAN (Red Bull Racing) PRESS CONFERENCE Q: A question to you all. The tender document for a commercially available Formula One engine has gone out – what do you think of the idea, in principle? Franz TOST: I think […]

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Williams Valtteri Bottas was handed a 3-place grid penalty and two penalty points on his super license for overtaking Felipe Nasr under red flag conditions. The red flags were brought out after McLaren’s Fernando Alonso stopped on track after an engine failure in Free Practice 2. Bottas overtook Sauber’s Felipe Nasr between Turn 5 and […]

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Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo will take a 10-place grid drop after an engine change. This engine change comes after Red Bull decided to take the upgraded engine from Renault after putting off the decision for some time. Renault have spent 11 of their 12 development tokens on the engine. Despite promises from Renault, Ricciardo remains […]

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Manor Formula 1 Team’s Sporting Director Graeme Lowdon has confirmed on Friday afternoon that he will leave the team at the end of the season with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix being his final outing with the team. It was reported last month at the Russian Grand Prix that Lowdon and Team Principal John Booth […]

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Nico Rosberg ended of Friday’s 2nd Free Practice session on top of the time sheets ahead of Mercedes Team mate Lewis Hamilton for the Brazilian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace. Rosberg set a time of 1:12.385 which seen him go almost half a second clear of Hamilton who clocked in the second […]

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Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton topped the timing sheets in the first free practice session for the Brazilian grand prix. The one-a-half hour session got underway with the track temperature soaring towards the 40 degree centigrade mark. The track surface provided a low level of grip for the drivers as they re-familiarized themselves with the famous […]

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