F1 Madness

The Austrian grand prix was a weekend that should have suited the Mercedes W08 to a tee. It did, but in the shape of Valtteri Bottas it wasn’t quite the Mercedes driver that most would’ve expected to see on the top step of the podium. The Finnish driver delivered a dominant performance not only throughout […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes) 2 – Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari) 3 – Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull)   PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Martin Brundle) Q: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, what a cliffhanger of a race that was, wasn’t it? I hope you enjoyed it. And your three stars of today are up here […]

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Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas has secured pole position by half a tenth over the Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel for the 2017 Austrian grand prix. While Lewis Hamilton set the third quickest time it’s Kimi Raikkonen who will start third as the Brit drops down five places to eighth as a result of a gearbox change. While […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes) 2 – Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari) 3 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes)   TRACKSIDE INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Davide Valsecchi) Q: What a qualifying! Valtteri Bottas on pole position, was a spectacular lap. Valtteri please, your lap was amazing. Less than one tenth in front of Sebastian. Great job my friend. Valtteri […]

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Sebastian Vettel set the quickest time for Ferrari in the third free practice session ahead of the Austrian grand prix. The Saturday practice session commenced under overcast conditions but without any threat of rain. Carlos Sainz lost roughly half the session to an engine issue. However, the Toro Rosso was speedily recovered to the garage […]

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Lewis Hamilton took charge of Friday Free Practice for the Austrian Grand Prix after finishing both Free Practice 1 and Free Practice 2 on top of the time sheets. Free Practice 1 Free Practice got underway under glorious sunshine. With the track still green drivers were slow to get out of their garages but eventually […]

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PART ONE: DRIVERS – Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari), Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes), Kevin MAGNUSSEN (Haas) PRESS CONFERENCE Q: Sebastian, begin by looking back at events in Baku two weeks ago. You said in a statement on Monday that you over-reacted in the heat of the moment. Please can you just talk us through what happened in that moment. […]

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From the confines of Baku City Formula 1 returns to the sprawling vista of Austria for the ninth round of the 2017 championship. Situated in Spielberg the Red Bull Ring is a short circuit consisting of nine corners in total. These corners are linked with several long straits and though it may be a power-dominant […]

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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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The Manor Formula One team brought home their first points finish for the 2016 Season thanks to Pascal Wehrlein. Wehrlein who made it through to Q2 in Qualifying on Saturday ended a strong weekend for the Manor team in the points in 10th place at the Austrian Grand Prix. The team celebrated like it was […]

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