F1 Madness

A crowd of nearly one hundred thousand fans looked on as Lewis Hamilton secured his first victory in Mexico and the 59th of this grand prix career. For the Mercedes driver the 71 laps around the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez went exactly to plan. Despite a bit of a messy start he was able to control […]

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Lewis Hamilton put his Mercedes on pole position for Sunday’s Mexican grand prix. A ninety thousand strong crowd looked on as Mercedes locked out their eleventh front row of the season. Crucially it was Lewis Hamilton who took the team’s 18th pole of the season ahead of championship rival Nico Rosberg. Max Verstappen was best […]

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Max Verstappen has set the quickest time for Red Bull in the final free practice session ahead of the 2016 Mexican grand prix. The Dutchman’s quickest lap of 1:19:137 was roughly one tenth quicker than the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton who set his quickest time at the third time of asking after encountering traffic earlier […]

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TEAM REPRESENTATIVES – Dave RYAN (Manor), Franz TOST (Toro Rosso), Eric BOULLIER (McLaren), Robert FERNLEY (Force India), Mike O’DRISCOLL (Williams) PRESS CONFERENCE Bob, if we could start with you, the news broke recently that Nico Hulkenberg is off to Renault. Does his departure weaken the team going forward? Robert FERNLEY: No, not necessarily. Nico will […]

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Renault’s Kevin Magnussen was handed a 5-second time penalty for his pass on Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat at Turn 12 at the United States Grand Prix. Magnussen who was fighting Kvyat for 11th in the race passed Kvyat into T12 after the long back straight at the Circuit of the Americas. The Dane went deep […]

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Lewis Hamilton has returned to winning ways with a measured drive to victory at the United States grand prix. Lewis Hamilton ran perfectly controlled race to take his 50th career win and with it a fifth victory on American soil at the Circuit of the Americas. While the perception from the outside made it look […]

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The F1 paddock travels halfway around the world from Japan to the lone star state of Texas and the Circuit of the Americas for the 16th round of the season. The Circuit of the Americas (COTA), designed by F1 architect Herman Tilke, hosted its first race in 2012. As one of the newest circuits on […]

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Around this time of year into every Formula 1 season we are well into what has not become known as “silly season”. The rumor mill is cranking out at full steam about which driver is moving to a new team, which drivers are staying at their current teams. More often than not, the look of […]

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Nico Rosberg continues to achieve firsts in this 2016 and has now added a first-time victory in Japan. The Mercedes driver, never troubled, strolled towards the chequered flag while teammate Lewis Hamilton dropped further behind in the race for the championship. While Nico Rosberg charged off his pole starting position Lewis Hamilton was swamped by […]

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Nico Rosberg set the quickest time in the third free practice session for the Japanese grand prix. The one hour session was slow to get underway as the Suzuka circuit remained damp from an earlier rain shower. However, under overcast skies drivers began to venture out on intermediate tyres before soon switching to slicks. Mercedes’ […]

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