F1 Madness

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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Toro Rosso driver Max Verstappen topped the timing sheets at the end of the first free practice session for the Mexican grand prix. The talented teenager set the fastest time according to the timing screens but in reality the laptime was achieved by cutting one of the corners on the Autrodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. The session […]

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The American Haas Formula 1 team has confirmed that Esteban Gutierrez will complete its driver line-up for the 2016 season. It has long been expected that the Mexican driver would fill the second seat the American team. However, it has now been confirmed by the driver himself. “Next year I will race with Haas and I […]

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Formula 1 returns to the Autodromo Hermanos Rosdriguez after a 23 year hiatus for round 17 of the Formula 1 World Championship. The circuit is fairly technical with a mix of slow, fast and medium speed corners. It has two long straights where cars are expected to reach 330km/h. At the end of the two […]

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DRIVERS: Carlos SAINZ (Toro Rosso) Pastor MALDONADO (Lotus) Will STEVENS (Manor) Fernando ALONSO (McLaren) Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) Sergio PEREZ (Force India) PRESS CONFERENCE Lewis, if we can start with you: you’ve had a few days for it to sink in and now you arrive here as a three-time world champion. How does it feel and […]

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There is an adage which says that money can’t buy happiness. But in 2011 Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, revealed that he was going to revive the Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico City and bring Formula 1 back to this South America location. It appears that money can, after all, buy some happiness. There […]

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The FIA have released a statement saying that Ferrari has vetoed a decision to implement a cost cap on customer engines. This move has lead the FIA to open up tenders for a cheaper, standardized engine. “The FIA, in agreement with FOM, suggested the principle of setting a maximum price for engine and gear box […]

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On Friday and Saturday race fans would have been cursing the biblical levels of rain that fell over Texas’ Circuit of the Americas. It completely obliterated any opportunity of running in all but one of the practice sessions and forced a postponement of qualifying to Sunday morning. However, as the weather cleared in time for […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 2 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 3 – Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing)   TV UNILATERAL Nico, difficult conditions to say the least, not just today but across the whole weekend, but really your first lap in that Q2 session was decisive, you must be quite pleased with the way […]

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TEAM REPRESENTATIVES: Matthew CARTER (Lotus), Vijay MALLYA (Force India), Franz TOST (Toro Rosso), Christian HORNER (Red Bull Racing), Eric BOULLIER (McLaren) PRESS CONFERENCE Q: Christian, we’ll begin with you. First of all, what’s the… you’re smiling? Christian HORNER: I’m just very upset to hear Toto is ill and couldn’t make it, that his helicopter couldn’t fly […]

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