F1 Madness

The hardest braking point on the Île de Notre-Dame lies just ahead of the start/finish line. The driver has to brake down hard, decelerating by 210 km/h over just 122 metres. 2,456 kW of power are released in the process. Up to 5.6 g pull at the driver, who pushes with 171 kg onto the […]

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Max Verstappen has been handed a 5 place grid penalty for the Canadian Grand Prix for causing a collision with Lotus driver Romain Grosjean. The Toro Rosso rookie started the Monaco Grand Prix from 9th place on the grid but lost a lot of time at his first stop. Verstappen was stationery for 31 seconds […]

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The FIA have announced that they will further investigate the incident between Williams’ Felipe Massa and Force India’s Sergio Perez at the Canadian Grand Prix. The crash, which Perez was penalized for, happened in the closing stages of the Canadian Grand Prix when Massa attempted to pass a struggling Perez into turn 1. The TV […]

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There is something about the combination of the circuit Gilles Villeneuve and Formula 1 that delivers the most astounding races. It didn’t come as a surprise when Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton locked out the front row of the grid. Nor was it unexpected that the two fought a close battle for the lead of […]

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Nico Rosberg secured pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix after putting in a rocket fast final lap in qualifying denying teammate Lewis Hamilton the pleasure of his fifth pole position. Hamilton dominated the entire weekend in Montreal but a mistake heading into Turn 8 on his final lap meant the Briton had to settle […]

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Lewis Hamilton has finished fastest in the final practice session ahead of qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix, repeating his earlier performance from FP2. This time round, however, he was not followed by team mate Nico Rosberg, who had to settle for third place behind Felipe Massa’s flying Williams. The session started out well, with […]

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DRIVERS: Adrian SUTIL (Sauber) Nico HULKENBERG (Force India) Kamui KOBAYASHI (Caterham) Felipe MASSA (Williams) Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) Jenson BUTTON (McLaren)   PRESS CONFERENCE Jenson, we’ll start with you if we may. A 2011 winner here, of course, memorably, and you’re currently eighth in the championship. This circuit has the famous wall of champions on the […]

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Formula 1 is in Canada this weekend for round 6 of the Formula 1 world championship at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. With the Mercedes pair of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg settling their differences, you can be certain that both of the drivers will be going all out to one up each other this weekend. The […]

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Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli announced the tyre choices for the Spanish, Monaco and Canadian Grands Prix. Due to the high temperatures and high lateral loads on the Montmelo circuit, Pirelli will bring the Pirelli P Zero Orange hard and P Zero White medium. For the Monaco and Canadian Grands Prix, the Pirelli P Zero Yellow soft […]

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F1 Fans are once again up in arms after speculation has surfaced that the Red Bull team are using traction control which is banned in Formula One. It seems that an Italian publication, Autosprint started the rumours and speculation around Red Bull cheating, stating that the team may be using traction control to gain a […]

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