F1 Madness

The Formula 1 circus heads into Hungary with heavy hearts this weekend with drivers paying tribute to the Frenchman ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix. Felipe Nasr: “I met Jules on one occasion only but we shared the track in this go-kart race that Felipe [Massa] does, or used to do, every year. It was […]

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DRIVERS: Roberto MERHI (Manor) Romain GROSJEAN (Lotus) Felipe NASR (Sauber) Sergio PEREZ (Force India) Felipe MASSA (Williams) Nico HULKENBERG (Force India)   PRESS CONFERENCE Well gentlemen, clearly all our thoughts this Hungarian Grand Prix weekend are with Jules Bianchi and his family. Many of you were at the funeral this week. Perhaps we should start […]

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The Sauber Formula 1 team has confirmed that Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson will remain as its race drivers for 2016. Swedish driver Marcus Ericsson joined the Swiss Sauber team from Caterham at the end of 2014 and scored a career-best eighth place with the team in Australia. “I’m very happy that Sauber has put […]

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Lewis Hamilton secured pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix during a pretty dramatic final qualifying shootout session at the Red Bull Ring, after both Mercedes drivers went off track in their final runs. Hamilton claimed the pole position with a time of 1:08.455, beating team mate Nico Rosberg, who was comfortably quickest in Q1 […]

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DRIVERS: Felipe NASR (Sauber) Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) Daniil KVYAT (Red Bull Racing) Carlos SAINZ (Toro Rosso) Fernando ALONSO (McLaren) Roberto MERHI (Manor)   PRESS CONFERENCE Fernando, shall we start with you? Last time out you only missed Q3 in Bahrain by a few tenths of a second and finished only a few seconds away from a […]

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Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton continued to set the pace during Friday’s practice sessions for the Chinese Grand Prix as he ended the second practice session almost half a second faster than Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen. Hamilton posted a time of 1:37.219 during the low-fuel runs on Option tyres finishing 0.443s ahead of Raikkonen. The Finn’s performance on […]

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If you’re not mulling several burning questions and theories at the same time then you’re more than likely not thinking about Formula 1 and the upcoming Chinese grand prix. The biggest of these burning questions is whether Ferrari’s stunning Malaysian grand prix victory was indicative of something or just a flash in the Mercedes dominated […]

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DRIVERS: Carlos SAINZ (Toro Rosso) Felipe NASR (Sauber) Daniil KVYAT (Red Bull Racing) Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) Kimi RAIKKONEN (Ferrari) Fernando ALONSO (McLaren) PRESS CONFERENCE: Fernando, if I can start with you. This has been a happy hunting ground throughout your career – you got your first pole here, you won with three different manufacturers – […]

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The first race of the season around Australia’s Albert Park circuit is a highly anticipated one. It’s the keenness to kick off a new F1 season which gives the streets of Melbourne that distinctive feeling of excitement. Its twenty-five points awarded to the winner are no less important than some of the more iconic races […]

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If winter testing was anything to go by, then few would’ve expected the surprising war of attrition in the first round of the 2015 Formula 1 season. Even before the Australian GP got underway three drivers failed to make it to the grid. Williams’ Valtteri Bottas was deemed unfit to race by the FIA medical […]

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