F1 Madness

Over the course of a grand prix weekend a driver normally runs close to two hundred laps. It’s uncanny then that everything can be made or undone by one lap. In Saturday qualifying, a wet and dry session, Lewis Hamilton steered his Mercedes to pole position in dominant fashion. While teammate Nico Rosberg qualified second […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing) 3 – Kimi RAIKKONEN (Ferrari) PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Noemi de Miguel) Congratulations Lewis, how do you feel just now? Lewis HAMILTON: What an incredible race that was. It was incredibly tough. This track is amazing. Big thank you to all the fans […]

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Lewis Hamilton claimed the pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix during a dramatic Q3 qualifying session at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. Rain arrived towards the end of Q2 to wet the circuit and leave drivers starting the Q3 session on intermediate tyres before the track dried really quickly enouch for slicks to […]

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Sebastian Vettel put Ferrari at the top of the time sheets at the end of the 3rd Free Practice session for the Austrian Grand Prix. In a session where teams were still finding the limits of their cars, Vettel put his SF16-H at the top of the time sheets early on in the session. He […]

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Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg set the quickest time in the first free practice session ahead of the Austrian grand prix. The first free practice session for the 2016 Austrian grand prix got underway in sunny conditions at the Red Bull Ring. The drivers quickly hit their stride with some blistering lap times early on in the […]

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DRIVERS: Esteban GUTIÉRREZ (Haas) Felipe NASR (Sauber) Kevin MAGNUSSEN (Renault) Daniil KVYAT (Toro Rosso) Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing) Kimi RÄIKKÖNEN (Ferrari) PRESS CONFERENCE Daniil, can we start with you. Good qualifying last time out in Baku but results are proving hard to come by at the moment. Are you now fully settled back in […]

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From the medieval city streets of Baku the Formula 1 paddock travels to the crisp countryside of Austria for the eighth round of the 2016 championship. A case could never be made that Formula 1 lacks diversity. It swops the mostly tight confines of the Baku City circuit for the mountains and fresh air of […]

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If you’d asked most people to point out Azerbaijan on a map they would probably struggle. If you then told them that its capital city Baku is going to host its first F1 race in 2016 it would possibly have been met with reluctant enthusiasm. Nevertheless, on the edge of the Caspian Sea the Azeri […]

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Lewis Hamilton set the quickest time in the first free practice session ahead of Sunday’s Baku grand prix. The first ever official Formula 1 session in Azerbaijan got underway in splendour as the cars and drivers had their first look at the Baku City circuit. Aesthetically the circuit and its surrounds create a terrific view […]

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Too many times new F1 circuits are talked up and promised to be glorious showpieces that will electrify the racing. And then you end up with Valencia, a dull F1 street circuit somewhere in Spain that evokes more winces than grins. But the new hosts of the European grand prix may have hit on something […]

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