F1 Madness

After engine troubles in FP3 which resulted in a gearbox change ahead of Qualifying, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen will drop a further 30-places down the grid for the race on Sunday. Raikkonen who was to be dropped 5 places after qualifying will incur a further 30-place drop after the team decided to change his engine, turbo, […]

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Jenson Button’s grid penalty is now a record breaking 70 places after further changes to his Honda engine after the Mexican GP qualifying. The McLaren-Honda driver had already taken two 25 place grid penalty hits for fitting two new engines, turbochargers, MGU-H and MGU-K units this weekend before qualifying, but will now take an additional […]

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FIA president and close friend of the Schumacher family, Jean Todt, has revealed that Michael Schumacher is “still fighting” the injuries he sustained in a skiing accident nearly 2 years. The seven-times world champion suffered severe and life changing head trauma in the accident which happened in the French Alps in December 2013. After initially […]

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Nico Rosberg bounced back from his US grand prix disappointment today by secured his fourth straight pole position after topping the timesheets of the qualifying session ahead the Mexican Grand Prix. Rosberg set an initial time of 1:20.120 and then lowered his benchmark to a 1:19.480 with nobody able to improve on the final Q3 […]

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DRIVERS 1st Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes)  2nd Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 3rd Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari) TV UNILATERAL Nico, first of all congratulations, your fourth pole in a row. Qualifying is proving very strong for you at the moment, what was the key today? Nico ROSBERG: I don’t really have a precise explanation. I just felt good all weekend. […]

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Nico Rosberg topped the time sheets in the final practice session for the Mexican Grand Prix. Rosberg’s time of 1:21.083 was 0.084s faster than Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton. Third place Daniel Ricciardo finished the session 0.118s off Rosberg’s pace after setting a best lap of 1:21.201 for Red Bull. The session got off to […]

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McLaren’s Jenson Button will take a 50-place grid at the Mexican Grand Prix race on Sunday. This is another strategic move from Honda to increase Button’s engine pool and to bring the updated Honda engine that was given to Fernando Alonso in Russia. At the United States Grand Prix, Alonso slipped down the order to […]

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In what was another one of Formula 1’s worst kept secrets, Mexican driver Esteban Gutierrez was confirmed on Saturday morning that he will complete the Haas F1 Team’s 2016 line up. Gutierrez will partner with Romain Grosjean at Haas F1 for 2016 after spending a year at Ferrari as their test and reserve driver. Gutierrez’s […]

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TEAM REPRESENTATIVES: Vijay MALLYA (Force India) Claire WILLIAMS (Williams) Maurizio ARRIVABENE (Ferrari) Toto WOLFF (Mercedes) Yasuhisa ARAI (Honda) PRESS CONFERENCE Q: Claire, if I can start with you. Williams won this race the last time it was here back in 1992. Did you watch that race and what are your thoughts on coming back to […]

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Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg set the pace in the second free practice session in Mexico. Conditions looked slightly better than the first free practice session which started with a damp circuit. However, on his first lap of the afternoon Toro Rosso driver Max Verstappen clouted the barrier and in the process destroyed the left front […]

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