F1 Madness

Nico Rosberg has secured pole position for the 2014 Bahrain grand prix. In celebration of its tenth year on the Formula 1 calendar thousands of floodlights lit up the Sakhir International Circuit in the middle of the Bahrain dessert.  The dominance of the Mercedes team remained intact around the floodlit Sakhir circuit as Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton […]

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Mercedes continued to show their excellent form during the final practice session ahead of this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets a tenth of a second ahead of team mate Nico Rosberg, with Checo Perez in the third spot for Force India, a half-second country mile behind them. Despite spending the first […]

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DRIVERS: Jules BIANCHI (Marussia) Jean-Eric VERGNE (Toro Rosso) Marcus ERICSSON (Caterham) Nico HULKENBERG (Force India) Jenson BUTTON (McLaren) Romain GROSJEAN (Lotus)   PRESS CONFERENCE Jenson, if we could start with you. Obviously you’ll reach 250 grand prix this weekend – congratulations on that. Later this year I guess you’ll become the third most experienced grand prix […]

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Not a lot of people were delighted when news broke towards the end of 2012 that Lewis Hamilton would become a Mercedes driver. The gutsy decision went a long way towards being justified as Hamilton dominated the 2014 Malaysian grand prix. A single victory in Hungary was all Hamilton had to show for his first […]

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That’s how four time world champion, Sebastian Vettel described the sound of the 2014 Formula 1 cars. Talking to AutoSport, Vettel had remarked that the new cars sounded sh*t and that the cars were less noisy than being inside a bar. “I think for the fans it is not good,” he added “I think F1 has […]

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The first free practice session for the Malaysian GP was headed by Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton. Sweltering weather conditions greeted the Formula 1 paddock as the first practice session for round two of the 2014 season kicked off. Teams were allocated an extra set of tyres by Pirelli for the first thirty minutes of the session […]

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Roughly a year ago Red Bull’s biggest worry was the unrest between its two drivers. In a ruthless move Sebastian Vettel ignored the now infamous ‘multi-21’call to hold position and pinched victory from Mark Webber. Twelve months later the second round of the championship again brings Red Bull and the paddock to Malaysia. The reigning […]

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Mercedes sent another strong message to their rivals with Nico Rosberg the messenger during FP3 in Australia ahead of qualifying this morning. Rosberg finished the session a crazy 1.3 seconds ahead of 2nd placed Jenson Button, with Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso finishing the session in 3rd place. Lewis Hamilton finished the session in fourth place but […]

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The Mercedes duo of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg topped the timing sheets for the second free practice session in Australia. A significant amount of laps were completed by most teams as they set out discovering and fine-tuning their race set-ups for Sunday. The early part of the session was dedicated to a few laps […]

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The 2014 Formula 1 season officially got underway with the first free practice session from Australia. It was quite a sizeable crowd that gathered to finally see the 2014 challengers and, more importantly, hear what they sound like. Some may not be a fan of the new V6 Turbo engine but it wasn’t unpleasant at all. […]

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