F1 Madness

TEAM REPRESENTATIVES – Toyoharu TANABE (Honda), Otmar SZAFNAUER (Racing Point), Christian HORNER (Red Bull Racing), Frédéric VASSEUR (Alfa Romeo), Mario ISOLA (Pirelli)   PRESS CONFERENCE   Q: Mario, if we could start with you please. Cast our minds back a couple of weeks please, to Austin, when the 2020 tyres were tested by the teams. […]

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DRIVERS – Romain GROSJEAN (Haas), Daniel RICCIARDO (Renault), Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes), Sergio PÉREZ (Racing Point), Robert KUBICA (Williams)   PRESS CONFERENCE   Q: Robert, if we could start with you, please. You finished second here in 2009. Could you just give us your thoughts on being back at Interlagos and your hopes for the weekend […]

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1 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing) 3 – Kimi RÄIKKÖNEN (Ferrari) TRACK INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Paul Di Resta)   Q: Max, can you tell us what happened? Max VERSTAPPEN: I don’t know what to say, I mean, you do everything well, you go through the field, we had a great […]

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DRIVERS – Brendon HARTLEY (Toro Rosso), Kevin MAGNUSSEN (Haas), Lance STROLL (Williams), Marcus ERICSSON (Sauber), Stoffel VANDOORNE (McLaren)   PRESS CONFERENCE Marcus, if we could start with you. It’s been a busy couple of weeks for you since Mexico. You’ve announced your plans for 2019, in IndyCar. Is that farewell to Formula 1 or do you […]

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DRIVERS 1 – Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes) 2 – Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari) 3 – Kimi RÄIKKÖNEN (Ferrari) TRACK INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Johnny Herbert) Valtteri, well done, your third pole position, perfect timing for you. How do you feel? Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, it feels good. Still a bit shaky. It’s a good feeling. It was just a nice […]

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Another race weekend, and we’ve got more grid penalties. So far none of them feature a McLaren. But it does look like Toro Rosso is getting all the bad luck. Lance Stroll gets a gearbox change after he came to a halt on track during Free Practice 3 while the rest of the Renault powered […]

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Valtteri Bottas finished fastest in a very closely fought the final free practice session for the Brazil Grand Prix. It was so close in fact, the top four were covered by 0.058s. with Bottas the fastest for Mercedes with a best time of 1:09.281. Team-mate Lewis Hamilton was 2nd fastest with a best lap of […]

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PART TWO: DRIVERS – Kimi RÄIKKÖNEN (Ferrari), Esteban OCON (Force India), Brendon HARTLEY (Toro Rosso)   Q: Brendon, congratulations, World Endurance Champion, once again, for the second time with Porsche. How did it feel jumping back into a WEC car after the Formula One, and how are you rationalising this very unusual life experience that you’re going […]

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PART ONE: DRIVERS – Felipe MASSA (Williams), Lance STROLL (Williams), Marcus ERICSSON (Sauber) PRESS CONFERENCE Felipe, here we are again, and once again we know this is a swansong. Do you mean it this time? Felipe MASSA: Yeah! Actually this is my second retirement race in Brazil, but this time it’s the last one for sure in […]

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Williams Valtteri Bottas was handed a 3-place grid penalty and two penalty points on his super license for overtaking Felipe Nasr under red flag conditions. The red flags were brought out after McLaren’s Fernando Alonso stopped on track after an engine failure in Free Practice 2. Bottas overtook Sauber’s Felipe Nasr between Turn 5 and […]

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