F1 Madness

After engine troubles in FP3 which resulted in a gearbox change ahead of Qualifying, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen will drop a further 30-places down the grid for the race on Sunday. Raikkonen who was to be dropped 5 places after qualifying will incur a further 30-place drop after the team decided to change his engine, turbo, […]

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DRIVERS 1st Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes)  2nd Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 3rd Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari) TV UNILATERAL Nico, first of all congratulations, your fourth pole in a row. Qualifying is proving very strong for you at the moment, what was the key today? Nico ROSBERG: I don’t really have a precise explanation. I just felt good all weekend. […]

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Nico Rosberg topped the time sheets in the final practice session for the Mexican Grand Prix. Rosberg’s time of 1:21.083 was 0.084s faster than Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton. Third place Daniel Ricciardo finished the session 0.118s off Rosberg’s pace after setting a best lap of 1:21.201 for Red Bull. The session got off to […]

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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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In what was another one of Formula 1’s worst kept secrets, Mexican driver Esteban Gutierrez was confirmed on Saturday morning that he will complete the Haas F1 Team’s 2016 line up. Gutierrez will partner with Romain Grosjean at Haas F1 for 2016 after spending a year at Ferrari as their test and reserve driver. Gutierrez’s […]

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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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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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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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