F1 Madness

McLaren’s Jenson Button will take a 50-place grid at the Mexican Grand Prix race on Sunday. This is another strategic move from Honda to increase Button’s engine pool and to bring the updated Honda engine that was given to Fernando Alonso in Russia. At the United States Grand Prix, Alonso slipped down the order to […]

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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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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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The McLaren-Honda F1 team preview the upcoming Formula One Grand Prix in Mexico. Fernando Alonso – McLaren-Honda racing driver “I really enjoyed the race in Austin and it was definitely one of the most exhilarating races for McLaren-Honda this year so far. It was a hard fight, but we didn’t give up. I hope we […]

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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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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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The old saying goes that everything is bigger and better in Texas and it’s hard to argue with it. The Circuit of the Americas, introduced in 2012, is already a favourite on the F1 calendar and in 2015 has the potential to crown a champion. The Circuit of the Americas, designed by Herman Tilke, gets […]

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It isn’t often in Formula 1 that you get what you ask for. Ahead of the second ever Russian grand prix the request was for a race with a bit more zest and the Sochi Autodrom delivered. Where it concerned the winner of the race it wasn’t high on the entertainment stakes. Lewis Hamilton ambled […]

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Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg has taken pole position for the 2015 Russian grand prix. The first part of qualifying went the usual route as both Manor F1 cars were eliminated from the running. Jenson Button, newly re-signed with McLaren for 2016, advanced ahead of his teammate Fernando Alonso to the second part of the session. […]

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DRIVERS: Romain GROSJEAN (Lotus) Daniil KVYAT (Red Bull Racing) Carlos SAINZ (Toro Rosso) Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) Felipe MASSA (Williams) Fernando ALONSO (McLaren) PRESS CONFERENCE Daniil, can we start with you. Your home race, obviously. Last year you had a great qualifying performance in fifth and this year you’ve finished six of the last seven races […]

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