F1 Madness

The McLaren Formula 1 Team have announced they will debut Honda’s new F1 engine at a promotional event at Silverstone on Friday. McLaren’s development car, the MP4-29H/1X1, will lap around the Silverstone Circuit alongside two other McLaren Honda’s. The Woking based outfit have been working on the MP4-29H to test the installation and integration of […]

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Team representatives: Pat Fry (Ferrari) Andy Cowell (Mercedes) Remi Taffin (Renault) Paul Monaghan (Red Bull Racing) Yasuhisa Arai (Honda) Jonathan Neale (McLaren)   Q: Arai-san, if I can start with you please. What’s the current state of the Honda project? Is Honda on target with development? Yasuhisa Arai: First of all, thank you very much to […]

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Honda has revealed the first image of its new power unit which will be used by the McLaren Formula One team as of next season. Honda is making a return to F1 after a seven year absence from the sport, and have signed a long-term deal with the McLaren team. Honda previously enjoyed much success […]

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Jenson Button is in no hurry to wrap up his Formula 1 career. Nor is the 2009 champion under pressure to close on a deal with the McLaren team. The 2014 season marks Button’s fifth season with the Woking based team. Despite starting the season with a podium finish in Australia the season has been […]

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TEAM REPRESENTATIVES Pat FRY (Ferrari) Charlie WHITING (FIA) Yasuhisa ARAI (Honda) Andy COWELL (Mercedes AMG HPP) Rob WHITE (Renault Sport F1)   PRESS CONFERENCE If we can start with you Charlie? The new power units have excited a lot of debate since the beginning of the year. Will you once again briefly take us through the […]

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The BBC reported that Mercedes AMG Pertronas Team Pricipal Ross Brawn will leave the Brackley based team at the end of the 2013 Formula 1 season. This comes after much speculation of Brawn’s future after Mercedes hired Paddy Lowe from McLaren earlier this year. The plan Mercedes had in mind was for Brawn to eventually […]

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Listen as Honda fires its new 2014 F1 Engine for the first time.  

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Suzuka will remain on the Formula 1 calendar until at least 2018 following the signing of a new contract with F1 Supremo Bernie Ecclestone. Ecccelstone met with Suzuka president Hiroshi Soda in London this week to agree to the terms of a new five-year deal which starts in 2014. This means that Honda, the Japanese […]

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Japanese manufacturer Honda has announced its return to Formula 1. Honda has not competed in Formula 1 since shutting down its works team at the end of 2008. However, as a result of Formula 1’s planned change to 1.6 litre turbocharged V6 engines it has announced a ‘joint project’ with McLaren starting in 2015. Rumours about a […]

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Honda has confirmed that it will return to Formula 1 in 2015 as engine supplier to McLaren. The Japanese manufacturer has not competed in F1 since shutting its works team at the end of 2008, but has decided to return as a result of the change to 1.6-litre turbocharged V6 engines. It has been known […]

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