F1 Madness

Daniel Ricciardo remained on top of the time sheets at the end of day 2 of the Young Drivers Test in Silvertone. Ricciardo’s time of 1:32.972 in the Toro Rosso was the fastest of the day. Testing for Red Bull in the afternoon session he managed a 1:33.187 with the RB9, just two tenths slower […]

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Toro Rosso’s Daniel Ricciardo set the fastest time for the morning session of 1:32.972 at the Young Drivers Test at Silverstone on Thursday. Ricciardo will take Mark Webber’s place in the RB9 this afternoon to continue his running for the day. Antonio Felix da Costa, in the Red Bull set the second fastest time of […]

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McLaren test driver Kevin Magnussen topped the first day of Formula One’s Young Driver Test at Silverstone. Magnussen did not spend much of the session at the top of the timesheets until the final 20 minutes of the afternoon session when he fired out on medium tyres and set a 1.33.602. Here is the timesheet […]

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Kimi Raikkonen will no longer take part in the Young Driver Test on Friday after the Lotus team decided he would be underutilised under the regulations restricting the race driver’s programmes at Silverstone. “Once details of what race drivers were allowed to do here became apparent, we would have only been able to conduct a […]

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Formula One chief, Bernie Ecclestone, has been formally indicted by German prosecutors investigating allegations of bribery. The charges relate to allegations of bribery against Ecclestone and in the wake of the German banker, Gerhard Gribkowsky – who Ecclestone is accused of bribing, being sentenced to 8 and a half years in prison after being convicted […]

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James Calado put Force India at the top of the timesheets on the opening morning of the Young Driver Test at Silverstone. His benchmark of 1.33.986 is just over half a second slower than the fastest lap of this year’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, set by Red Bull driver Mark Webber. Here is the […]

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Mark Webber will no longer take part in the F1 Young Driver Test at Silverstone after Red Bull announced a late change to their planned schedule. Webber, who will be leaving Formula One to drive for Porsche at the end of the season, was due to test on Thursday afternoon. Regular team race drivers have […]

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Codemaster’s has announced that F1 2013 will be released, worldwide,  in the next few months. The software company, who made their first F1 game in 2011, announced a new feature of the game that is sure to please the purists. A new gameplay mode, called F1 Classics, will be featured that allows fans a chance at […]

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Formula 1’s annual Young Driver’s Test starts tomorrow on the Silverstone race track. However, this year’s three day test session has a bit of a twist to it. As a result of the tyre troubles at Silverstone grand prix the test has been transformed into an emergency tyre test for the Italian manufacturer to regain […]

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McLaren drivers Jenson Button and Sergio Perez will not be taking part in the Young Driver Test at Silverstone this week despite the FIA now allowing regular race drivers to take part in order to help Pirelli test tyre development. This leaves the running up to Kevin Magnussen, Oliver Turvey and Gary Paffett. New Pirelli […]

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