F1 Madness

Formula 1 is two weeks into its mid-season break, which provides the perfect occasion to reflect on the first half of 2016. Mercedes brilliant but not without bruises The reigning champions rocketed out of the starting gate in 2016 and haven’t faced a consistently noteworthy challenge from anyone. Nico Rosberg obliterated the competition with four […]

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Formula 1 does not need to be serious all the time. Mercedes Director Toto Wolff shows us there is a lighter side to managing a Formula 1 team

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After the Saturday qualifying session Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg was on top of the world after delivering a stunning lap, for pole, under extreme pressure. But the German’s euphoria on home soil was short lived as teammate Lewis Hamilton rocketed into the lead of the race. Hamilton went on to taste the sweet success of victory […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2 – Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing) 3 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing) PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Kai Ebel) Lewis, congratulations. First of all, give us inside view of your rocket start, that we all have seen there? Lewis HAMILTON: Well, first please let me start with a big […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 2 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 3 – Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing)   TV UNILATERAL Nico, under pressure there: only one run in the end in Q3 after, we understand, an electronics glitch on your first run. How satisfying is this pole under those circumstances? Nico ROSBERG: Yeah, it was […]

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Nico Rosberg topped the timing sheet at the end of the second free practice session for the German grand prix. The Mercedes driver out-paced teammate Hamilton by four tenths of a second to end the 90 minute practice session with a quickest time of :1:15:614. Lewis Hamilton, 0.394 adrift, finished the session in second overall […]

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The last time the F1 paddock visited Germany’s Hockenheimring was in 2014. Back then Mercedes’ dominance was just getting into its stride and Sebastian Vettel was still a Red Bull driver. Given the amount of things that have changed it feels impossible that the race around the Hockenheimring was just two years ago. In 2016 […]

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Mercedes team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were at odds with each other regarding yellow flag rules over the incident in qualifying which saw Hamilton back out of his lap because of a spin from McLaren’s Fernando Alonso and Nico Rosberg taking pole position. In the race, Hamilton took the lead from Turn 1 and […]

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The Hungarian grand prix marked the theoretical mid point of the 2016 season. Yet, after ten races a singular point was all that divided Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton in the championship fight. Throughout the weekend’s practice sessions and qualifying it was Rosberg who looked most comfortable. But it wasn’t long before Hamilton got the […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2 – Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 3 – Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull Racing) PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Kai Ebel) Congratulations Lewis, you are the leader of the world championship right now, was it due to a tailor-made start, man? Lewis HAMILTON: Well, firstly a big thank you to all the fans […]

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