F1 Madness

There is an age-old question that all Formula 1 are inevitably asked – Who do you support? In the GPDA global fan survey a third of the fans said that they support more than one team and driver with less than 10% only following one team. It doesn’t really come as surprise that Ferrari ranked […]

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The first ever Formula 1 world championship season took place sixty-five years ago in 1950. The British grand prix was the first official world championship race in that 1950 season and it remains, though altered, on the Formula 1 calendar. The high speed circuit of Silverstone and the famously quick sequence of Maggots and Becketts […]

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Mercedes reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein ended on top of the time sheets after the first day of the final in-season test at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. The young German set a best time of 1:11.005, 0.187s clear of Force India’s Esteban Ocon who’s best time was 1:11.192. The session got off to a […]

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Both Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen walked away from a very scary first lap collision at the start of Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix. Raikkonen veered left while accelerating out of Turn 2 and collected Alonso on the way. The Spaniard slid into the barriers before landing on top of the front of Raikkonen’s car – […]

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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 1st Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2nd Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 3rd Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari) TV UNILATERAL Lewis, many congratulations, but that looked very hard-earned out there today. Can you just tell us what happened? Lewis HAMILTON: Generally it was quite a difficult qualifying session, I think, probably for everyone, just with the track conditions. I was grateful […]

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Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel topped the timing sheets at the end of the third free practice session ahead of the Austrian grand prix. The running around the Styrian circuit got underway in cloudy conditions and with the Mercedes pairing of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton trading fastest laps. However, the emergence of Sebastian Vettel from his […]

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TEAM REPRESENTATIVES Mattia BINOTTO (Ferrari) James KEY (Toro Rosso) Rob WHITE (RenaultSport) Tom McCULLOUGH (Force India) Pat SYMONDS (Williams) Paul MONAGHAN (Red Bull Racing) PRESS CONFERENCE Mattia, if we could start with you. This morning Sebastian had some engine-related problems and this afternoon there were other problems, seemingly gearbox-related. Could you please explain what happened and […]

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DRIVERS: Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing) Fernando ALONSO (McLaren) Carlos SAINZ (Toro Rosso) Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) Nico HULKENBERG (Force India) Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari) PRESS CONFERENCE Nico, if we can start with you. First of all, congratulations on winning Le Mans, a great achievement, especially at your first attempt. How was it? Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, it was quite […]

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Power is defined as the capacity to move with great speed or force. As the Austrian Grand Prix’s four and a half kilometres circuit has only nine corners amongst its three long straights is it the classic power circuit. Austria’s interest in Formula 1 was indifferent at best until the rise of Jochen Rindt in the […]

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