F1 Madness

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton will take a 5-place grid drop on Sunday’s race for the Chinese Grand Prix after a gearbox change. This after Mercedes examined his gearbox after the Bahrain Grand Prix and found it had taken some damage. To be on the safe side Mercedes decided to replace his gearbox to give him […]

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Pirelli has revealed the driver tyre choices for the upcoming Chinese Grand Prix and some interesting differences in tyre strategies have emerged. Pirelli will be supplying the medium, soft and super-soft tyres for the race. The two Mercedes drivers have made different tyre choices – indicating different strategies for the duo. Lewis Hamilton has chosen […]

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For nine years the Bahrain grand prix was run under the hot desert sun. For nearly a decade it wasn’t a race marked as one to look forward to and it almost always produced the most lacklustre racing of a season. But it would only take pushing back the starting time a few hours and […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 2 – Kimi RAIKKONEN (Ferrari) 3 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by David Coulthard) Congratulations, your 16th victory, your fifth in a row. Any man that has done that has won a world championship, so a good day in the office. Nico ROSBERG: Oh for sure. It’s been […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2 – Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 3 – Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari) TV UNILATERAL Q: Lewis, great lap. Under a little bit of pressure after your first run in Q3, but you really hooked it up – fastest ever lap of this circuit? Lewis HAMILTON: What a start. It’s obviously not […]

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Lewis Hamilton has been given a reprimand following his pit lane incident after qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Hamilton who took a pole position with a record setting lap time was summoned to the stewards after qualifying for reversing in the pit lane. This is in breach of Article 28.3 of the FIA Sporting […]

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Lewis Hamilton wrapped up his second consecutive pole position of the season for the Mercedes F1 team. The much maligned qualifying format got underway on the floodlit Sakhir International circuit and claimed its fist victim as Sergio Perez. The Force India driver and his team miscalculated the timing clock which left the Mexican driver towards […]

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Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg went faster than his team-mate Lewis Hamilton to take the fastest time of Free Practice 2 for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Rosberg set a time of 1:31.001 on the super soft tyre edging out his team mate Hamilton by 0.241s. Hamilton managed a best time of 1:31.242. Rosberg’s time is about 1.6s […]

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Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg topped the timing sheets in the first free practice session of the Bahrain grand prix. The first ninety minutes of practice for the 2016 Bahrain grand prix took place under natural light as opposed to the rest of the weekend which will be run on the floodlights which line the circuit. […]

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DRIVERS: Pascal Wehrlein (Manor) Max VERSTAPPEN (Toro Rosso) Romain GROSJEAN (Haas) Felipe MASSA (Williams) Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) Fernando ALONSO (McLaren)   PRESS CONFERENCE Fernando, we have to start with you: three times a winner here in Bahrain, but clearly we have to deal with the accident in Melbourne and the aftermath. You aren’t racing here […]

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