F1 Madness

With Christian Horner having confirmed that Daniel Ricciardo is on a very short list of candidates for outgoing Red Bull driver Mark Webber’s racing seat, all eyes were on the young Australian as he tested in the RB9 at the Young Driver Test at Silverstone. After what was probably the most important test session of […]

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Sebastian Vettel topped the time sheets on the final day of the Young Driver Test at Silverstone. Vettel put in 78 laps this afternoon evaluating the Pirelli tyres which will be used at next week’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Vettel set the fastest time of all three days of running at Young Driver Test with a […]

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Adrian Sutil set the early pace on the final morning of the Young Driver Test at Silverstone, putting Force India back on top of the time sheets. Carlos Sainz Jr, who ventured out for Red Bull for the morning session, ended in second place ahead of Ferrari’s Felipe Massa and Jean-Eric Vergne for Toro Rosso. […]

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With Mark Webber leaving Red Bull at the end of this season, his seat at Red Bull has been the topic of many a heated debate. Until now, the seat has had three names on it – Kimi Raikkonen, Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne. In an interview with Sky Sports today however, Christian Horner has […]

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Toro Rosso’s Daniel Ricciardo set the fastest time for the morning session of 1:32.972 at the Young Drivers Test at Silverstone on Thursday. Ricciardo will take Mark Webber’s place in the RB9 this afternoon to continue his running for the day. Antonio Felix da Costa, in the Red Bull set the second fastest time of […]

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McLaren test driver Kevin Magnussen topped the first day of Formula One’s Young Driver Test at Silverstone. Magnussen did not spend much of the session at the top of the timesheets until the final 20 minutes of the afternoon session when he fired out on medium tyres and set a 1.33.602. Here is the timesheet […]

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Kimi Raikkonen will no longer take part in the Young Driver Test on Friday after the Lotus team decided he would be underutilised under the regulations restricting the race driver’s programmes at Silverstone. “Once details of what race drivers were allowed to do here became apparent, we would have only been able to conduct a […]

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James Calado put Force India at the top of the timesheets on the opening morning of the Young Driver Test at Silverstone. His benchmark of 1.33.986 is just over half a second slower than the fastest lap of this year’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, set by Red Bull driver Mark Webber. Here is the […]

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Mark Webber will no longer take part in the F1 Young Driver Test at Silverstone after Red Bull announced a late change to their planned schedule. Webber, who will be leaving Formula One to drive for Porsche at the end of the season, was due to test on Thursday afternoon. Regular team race drivers have […]

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McLaren drivers Jenson Button and Sergio Perez will not be taking part in the Young Driver Test at Silverstone this week despite the FIA now allowing regular race drivers to take part in order to help Pirelli test tyre development. This leaves the running up to Kevin Magnussen, Oliver Turvey and Gary Paffett. New Pirelli […]

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