F1 Madness

DRIVERS 1 st Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2nd Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 3rd Sergio PÉREZ (Force India)   PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Brian Johnson) What a race! Lewis, what’s it like to win the 900th Formula One grand prix? Lewis HAMILTON: It’s great to see that we have such a great crowd. It’s the first time we’ve […]

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Mercedes continued to show their excellent form during the final practice session ahead of this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets a tenth of a second ahead of team mate Nico Rosberg, with Checo Perez in the third spot for Force India, a half-second country mile behind them. Despite spending the first […]

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Less than a week after the Malaysian Grand Prix, where Mercedes thundered to its first one-two finish since the 1955 Italian Grand Prix, Formula One sets up shop in Bahrain for round three of the 2014 F1 World Championship. Mercedes will remain in good spirits for this weekend’s Bahrain GP. The car is perfectly suited […]

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Pirelli give us a preview of the Bahrain International Circuit from a tyre point of view and they tell us the tyre choices that are available for the Bahrain Grand Prix

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We are in Bahrain for the 3rd round of the Formula 1 World Championship. But this time its a night race. The weather in Bahrain is usually always sunny and warm. With spring getting underway in the northern hemisphere, we should see temperatures slightly higher than they were in testing. With it being a night […]

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It’s a back-to-back Formula 1 week and round 3 of the Formula 1 World Championship takes us to the Gulf state of Bahrain. For the first time in it’s 10 years of hosting F1, the Bahrain Grand Prix will be a day into night race. Which means an early evening start time. It’s going to […]

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Earlier this year, AUTOSPORT revealed that the Bahrain International Circuit was considering a night race to celebrate the circuits 10th anniversary of hosting Formula 1 races. Circuit chairman, Zayed Al Zayani, revealed earlier this afternoon at Monza that an announcement is imminent. Amid suggestions that Bahrain may be next season’s opener, the chairman has asked Bernie […]

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Sergio Perez certainly caused a few Formula One fan’s hearts to skip a few beats during the Bahrain Grand Prix. Reynard Gelderblom sent us his thoughts on how raw, young talent is introduced to front running teams and how we can avoid such hot-headed rough-around-the edges type racing in future. A new hope in reckless abandon […]

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Fernando Alonso suffered a very unusual DRS failure in Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix. The DRS flap got stuck in the open position and way above the 50mm limit. The cause seemed to have been the stopper that sits in the middle part of the rear wing. This little device stops the wing from opening above […]

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As great a day as Saturday qualifying can sometimes be it never quite is a predictor of what’s to come in Sunday’s race. There are still some exceptions that make pole the imperative but Formula 1 2013 is whole lot more complex than the position you start in. The expectation was for Ferrari, Red Bull […]

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