F1 Madness

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton will take a 5-place grid drop on Sunday’s race for the Chinese Grand Prix after a gearbox change. This after Mercedes examined his gearbox after the Bahrain Grand Prix and found it had taken some damage. To be on the safe side Mercedes decided to replace his gearbox to give him […]

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The World Motorsport Council (WMSC) officially approved a change to the 2015 Qualifying for F1 on Monday by e-vote. This turn around was prompted by teams standing united against a proposed aggregate qualifying solution. The widespread condemnation of the new 2016 format from fans and teams sent F1 management and the FIA scrambling for a […]

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All eleven Formula One teams have taken a stand against the proposed aggregate F1 qualifying format, as well as the current elimination style F1 qualifying format, in a letter to F1 bosses. It is reported that teams have unanimously demanded that the sport reverts to the 2015 F1 season qualifying format in an effort to […]

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Pirelli has revealed the driver tyre choices for the upcoming Chinese Grand Prix and some interesting differences in tyre strategies have emerged. Pirelli will be supplying the medium, soft and super-soft tyres for the race. The two Mercedes drivers have made different tyre choices – indicating different strategies for the duo. Lewis Hamilton has chosen […]

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Pirelli have revealed their tyre nominations for the Chinese and Bahrain Grands Prix. For both race weekends Pirelli have nominated the White Medium, Yellow Soft, and Red Super soft compound tyres. Pirelli have selected the White Medium compound and Yellow Soft compound tyres that have to be used at least once in during the race. […]

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Mercedes driver and current Formula One World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton believes that he has the psychological edge over his team mate Nico Rosberg in their battle for the Drivers’ Championship title this season. The defending world champ was accused of compromising Rosberg’s race during the Chinese Grand Prix this past weekend and responded smugly […]

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Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg lashes out at team mate Lewis Hamilton for driving too slow and compromising his own race. Rosberg was very vocal post race about his race being compromised and made no attempt to hide his dissatisfaction in the post race press conference. The full transcript of it  here.

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DRIVERS 1st Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2nd Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 3rd Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari)   PODIUM INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Edwin Moses) Lewis, the gap was relatively small in the first part of the race. What happened in the second part of the race? Lewis HAMILTON: First of all, a fantastic job by the team. It was great […]

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After Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton took victory at the Chinese Grand Prix, team mate Nico Rosberg lashed out at the Briton in the post race press conference claiming that Hamilton compromised his race by backing him into 3rd placed Sebastian Vettel. At a point in the race Rosberg came onto the radio and told his engineer […]

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DRIVERS 1st Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) 2nd Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 3rd Sebastian VETTEL (Ferrari)   TV UNILATERAL Lewis, quickest in both sessions yesterday, quickest again today in all sessions, it’s looking pretty good for you this weekend? Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, I think China’s continuing to be generally a good circuit for me, and a very, very positive […]

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