F1 Madness

It would be ridiculous to deem the impressive Mercedes team as anything but imperious in Formula 1 2014. Normally, domination by one team in a sport leads to a bit of monotony.   But the Mercedes pair ensured that the tenth anniversary of the Bahrain GP was one of the most exhilarating races in recent memory. […]

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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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Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg topped the timing sheets for the second free practice session in Malaysia. As the Malaysian heat intensified Nico Rosberg set the fastest time on the white-walled medium compound tyres in the second free practice session for Sunday’s Malaysian grand prix. Track temperatures reached nearly 50 degrees Celsius during the ninety minute […]

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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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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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