F1 Madness

What was once old was made new again as the Formula 1 paddock jetted into central Europe for the Austrian grand prix for the first time in eleven years. The practice sessions suggested that the weekend would follow the familiar pattern of Mercedes domination. However, Saturday qualifying was turned on its head as the Williams […]

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Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton set the pace in the second practice session for the Canadian Grand Prix. Hamilton set a time of 1:16.118 on the option tyre. His team mate Nico Rosberg ended the session in P2 with a time of 1:16.293, just 0.175s off the pace. Red Bulls Sebastian Vettel who was rather anonymous throughout […]

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The stewards at the Monaco Grand Prix decided to reprimand Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen for his incident with McLaren’s Kevin Magnussen towards the end of the race. The incident happened with 6 laps towards the end of the race. Raikkonen dived down the inside of Magnussen at the Loews Hairpin, it looked as if he out […]

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DRIVERS: Max CHILTON (Marussia) Kevin MAGNUSSEN (McLaren) Daniil KVYAT (Toro Rosso) Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull Racing) Fernando ALONSO (Ferrari) Pastor MALDONADO (Lotus)   PRESS CONFERENCE Daniil, can I start with you? Three points finishes, one 11th place, you must be quite pleased with the way things have started in the first four races? Daniil KVYAT: […]

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For the first time in his seven year career Lewis Hamilton has scored a hat-trick of victories. A complete domination of the 2014 Chinese grand prix was the latest in a list of victories to be added to the Brit’s resume. Seemingly nothing can stand in the way of Mercedes’ all-dominant string of results. Not […]

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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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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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It was at the completion of the 2013 Abu Dhabi grand prix when Sebastian Vettel, on his way to a nine race winning streak, reminded his team to savour their victorious memories. How spot-on he was. The free practice session made it quite clear that Mercedes’ favourites tag was no gaffe. For the 35th time Lewis […]

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Drivers: 1 – Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) 2 – Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull) 3 – Kevin Magnussen (McLaren) PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Alan Jones) Q: Well Nico, well done. I couldn’t think of a better start to the season. What a great start to the 2014 championship. A great start to the new era of Formula […]

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Lewis Hamilton claimed the pole position, snatching it from home favourite Daniel Ricciardo, in the final moments of the season opening Australian qualifying session. The F1 weather gods thought it would be a good idea to spice things up a little – as if they weren’t already complicated enough with all the 2014 regulation changes. […]

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