F1 Madness

Honda plan to spend some of their nine allocated development tokens on boosting maximum horsepower by looking into different concepts around combustion in the next few months. The engine manufacturer – who only supply McLaren – only entered the sport this season and therefore have less engine tokens compared to their rivals Mercedes, Ferrari and […]

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The three week wait is over and the battle is ready to resume at this weekend’s Spanish GP. The question is which battle; will it be a battle between Mercedes teammates or will Ferrari ascend to true championship contenders? The Spanish GP doesn’t necessarily have the definitive answer to these questions but it will be […]

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The first race of the season around Australia’s Albert Park circuit is a highly anticipated one. It’s the keenness to kick off a new F1 season which gives the streets of Melbourne that distinctive feeling of excitement. Its twenty-five points awarded to the winner are no less important than some of the more iconic races […]

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If winter testing was anything to go by, then few would’ve expected the surprising war of attrition in the first round of the 2015 Formula 1 season. Even before the Australian GP got underway three drivers failed to make it to the grid. Williams’ Valtteri Bottas was deemed unfit to race by the FIA medical […]

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According to Renault’s chief technical officer Rob White, the engine manufacturer is on course to make considerable performance improvements with their 2015 Formula One power unit before the season-opening race in Melbourne, Australia. Renault have made sweeping comprehensive changes to their F1 power unit over the winter break in an effort to reduce the performance […]

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The FIA have reversed their decision to allow in-season engine development for McLaren’s new engine partner, Honda. The 2015 rules for engine homologation were left open after Ferrari’s James Allison pointed out that nowhere in the 2015 rules does it state that teams have to submit their homologated engines for the 2015 season. The deadline […]

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It has always been recognised and celebrated that Formula 1 has some of the most complex and advanced engine technology in the world. It’s a sport of innovation after all and the introduction of hybrid engines for 2014 well and truly proved that. Last year, Formula 1 went racing on a third less fuel than […]

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A loophole in the 2015 technical regulations means that teams will be allowed to update their engines during the season. The loophole only exists because the regulations do not mention when the final engine for 2015 must be homologated as it stated in the 2014 regulations. An FIA spokesperson has said that the FIA was always […]

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Here are some of the moments during the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix that made it one of the craziest races we’ve seen. The same race where Giancarlo Fisichella won his first ever Grand Prix after Jaguar’s Mark Webber crashed heavily at the exit of T12. The crash resulted in parts of the tyre barrier being strewn […]

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Team representatives: Pat Fry (Ferrari) Andy Cowell (Mercedes) Remi Taffin (Renault) Paul Monaghan (Red Bull Racing) Yasuhisa Arai (Honda) Jonathan Neale (McLaren)   Q: Arai-san, if I can start with you please. What’s the current state of the Honda project? Is Honda on target with development? Yasuhisa Arai: First of all, thank you very much to […]

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