F1 Madness

DRIVERS 1st Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2nd Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 3rd Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull Racing)     PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Benedict Cumberbatch)   Well Lewis, congratulations, your first win this year and you got the hat trick – pole position, the best lap time, on lap 54 I think, and now you’re here. How does […]

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Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo was handed a 10-place grid penalty for next week’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Although he was given a 10 second stop-and-go penalty during the race the 2014 rules dictate that a 10-place grid penalty is also applied at the next race. The stop-and-go penalty was incurred on Ricciardo’s final pit stop of […]

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Lewis Hamilton clinched his second pole in a row during a very wet and rainy Malaysian Grand Prix qualifying session this afternoon. He edged out Red Bull’s Sebastian by just 0.055 seconds. Nico Rosberg took the third place away from Fernando Alonso in his final flying lap and Daniel Ricciardo got the second Red Bull […]

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Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg topped the timing sheets for the second free practice session in Malaysia. As the Malaysian heat intensified Nico Rosberg set the fastest time on the white-walled medium compound tyres in the second free practice session for Sunday’s Malaysian grand prix. Track temperatures reached nearly 50 degrees Celsius during the ninety minute […]

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That’s how four time world champion, Sebastian Vettel described the sound of the 2014 Formula 1 cars. Talking to AutoSport, Vettel had remarked that the new cars sounded sh*t and that the cars were less noisy than being inside a bar. “I think for the fans it is not good,” he added “I think F1 has […]

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The first free practice session for the Malaysian GP was headed by Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton. Sweltering weather conditions greeted the Formula 1 paddock as the first practice session for round two of the 2014 season kicked off. Teams were allocated an extra set of tyres by Pirelli for the first thirty minutes of the session […]

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DRIVERS: Kamui KOBAYASHI (Caterham) Pastor MALDONADO (Lotus) Daniil KVYAT (Toro Rosso) Valtteri BOTTAS (Williams) Kimi RÄIKKÖNEN (Ferrari) Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes)   PRESS CONFERENCE Valtteri, we’ll start with you. Quite a race in Australia, 15th to sixth, hit the wall, back down to 15th, back up to sixth again, very eventful. But what do you think […]

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Roughly a year ago Red Bull’s biggest worry was the unrest between its two drivers. In a ruthless move Sebastian Vettel ignored the now infamous ‘multi-21’call to hold position and pinched victory from Mark Webber. Twelve months later the second round of the championship again brings Red Bull and the paddock to Malaysia. The reigning […]

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How would you sum up the first race in Melbourne? “Australia was definitely a respectable start, without a doubt, and probably the best start we’ve had since I took over the team. We went into the race feeling good and confident. We were concerned initially about reliability, but I think the number of laps we […]

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It was at the completion of the 2013 Abu Dhabi grand prix when Sebastian Vettel, on his way to a nine race winning streak, reminded his team to savour their victorious memories. How spot-on he was. The free practice session made it quite clear that Mercedes’ favourites tag was no gaffe. For the 35th time Lewis […]

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