F1 Madness

Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton claimed his 8th pole position for the 2015 F1 season at the qualifying session for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Hamilton’s Q3 benchmark time of a 1:32.248 put him on pole ahead of team mate Nico Rosberg. Hamilton failed to improve in his final flying lap but his […]

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DRIVERS 1st Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2nd Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 3rd Felipe MASSA (Williams)   TV UNILATERAL Lewis, it was the first run in Q3 again for you – absolutely perfect – that nailed it. Pole position for your home grand prix, how are you feeling? Lewis HAMILTON: It’s a special day. It’s special when you […]

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Nico Rosberg set the fastest time in the second free practice session ahead of Sunday’s British grand prix. The second one-and-a-half hour session is usually reserved to evaluate how the various cars will perform in race trim but it also allows for a quali sim. Pirelli have made the medium and hard compound tyre available […]

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Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg topped the timing sheets at the end of the first free practice session. Nico Rosberg set a fastest time of 1:34:274 ahead of his teammate Lewis Hamilton and Toro Rosso’s Max Verstappen. The Mercedes driver sent a clear message of intent to Hamilton as he set the quickest time of the […]

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DRIVERS: Valtteri BOTTAS (Williams) Jenson BUTTON (McLaren) Kimi RAIKKONEN (Ferrari) Marcus ERICSSON (Sauber) Pastor MALDONADO (Lotus) Will STEVENS (Manor)   PRESS CONFERENCE Valtteri, why don’t we start with you? You finished second here last year from, I think, 14th on the grid – equal best result so far in Formula One, your finish. Is this […]

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There is an age-old question that all Formula 1 are inevitably asked – Who do you support? In the GPDA global fan survey a third of the fans said that they support more than one team and driver with less than 10% only following one team. It doesn’t really come as surprise that Ferrari ranked […]

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Control is a concept that when given up is difficult to regain. Yet, Nico Rosberg overcame his pole starting teammate and controlled all seventy-one laps for an important victory in Austria. The multi-lingual German secured his third victory of the season and second consecutive Austrian race win. But for a “vibration” late on in the […]

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Lewis Hamilton secured pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix during a pretty dramatic final qualifying shootout session at the Red Bull Ring, after both Mercedes drivers went off track in their final runs. Hamilton claimed the pole position with a time of 1:08.455, beating team mate Nico Rosberg, who was comfortably quickest in Q1 […]

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TEAM REPRESENTATIVES Mattia BINOTTO (Ferrari) James KEY (Toro Rosso) Rob WHITE (RenaultSport) Tom McCULLOUGH (Force India) Pat SYMONDS (Williams) Paul MONAGHAN (Red Bull Racing) PRESS CONFERENCE Mattia, if we could start with you. This morning Sebastian had some engine-related problems and this afternoon there were other problems, seemingly gearbox-related. Could you please explain what happened and […]

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Power is defined as the capacity to move with great speed or force. As the Austrian Grand Prix’s four and a half kilometres circuit has only nine corners amongst its three long straights is it the classic power circuit. Austria’s interest in Formula 1 was indifferent at best until the rise of Jochen Rindt in the […]

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