F1 Madness

McLaren’s Jenson Button will drop 5-places down the grid at this weekend’s United States Grand Prix due to a gearbox change. This is because his previous gearbox only lasted him 2 races. Formula 1 Technical Regulation 28.6 (a) states that a driver may use no more than one gearbox for six consecutive races. Button’s gearbox was […]

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Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel says that he will sit out this weekends qualifying for the United States Grand Prix. The German will use his 6th engine of the season, that’s one more than the regulations permit. This comes after his problems at the Singapore Grand Prix where he suffered an oil pressure loss in Friday […]

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Drivers: Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull Racing) Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes AMG Petronas F1) Valtteri Bottas (Williams) Sergio Perez (Force India) Romain Grosjean (Lotus) Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber)   PRESS CONFERENCE Let’s start with the world championship leader. Lewis, 17 points ahead, the biggest lead you’ve had this year so far, which poses the greater threat do you […]

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It’s been a rather eventful three weeks in the lead up to Round 17 of the Formula 1 World Championship. We’ve seen two teams exit the sport with very little chance of either team returning. To add insult to injury there are threats that there are more teams that may fold and exit the sport. […]

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The Marussia Formula 1 team will not participate in the weekend’s United States Grand Prix after it was placed under administration. Administrators appointed by the team, FRP Advisory LLP, confirmed that the team will not participate in the US Grand Prix this weekend due to a lack of funding. Geoff Rowley, the joint administrator released a […]

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