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Ott Tanak leads Rally Sweden after the first stage, with championship leader Sebastien Ogier only able to set the ninth fastest time of the evening. Tanak gained time at the beginning of the stage by running out of the tracks of the earlier competitors and made good use of the loose snow. 0.3 seconds behind, […]
When the news broke in 2014 that McLaren would be recreating its iconic engine partnership with Honda, there was the expectation that, in time at least, it would again enjoy the kind of success it experienced in the late 1980s. The woeful past three years have proved that not to be the case but it […]
Sebastien Ogier has taken World Rally Championship victory in the 2018 Monte-Carlo Rally, with almost a minute back to 2017 M-Sport team-mate Ott Tanak in second place. Ogier began Sunday with a 33-second lead over the Estonian after Tanak’s run of stage wins on Saturday and managed to extend the gap over the four stages. […]
Sauber team principal Frederic Vasseur cancelled the engine deal with Honda for 2018 just an hour after joining the Formula 1 team. Honda had previously made a deal with Vasseur’s predecessor, Monisha Kaltenborn, but Vasseur felt it was too risky to go with the Japanese manufacturer after its tumultuous past three years supplying McLaren. “I […]
It’s hard to describe Citroen’s return to the World Rally Championship after a year’s sabbatical as anything other than disappointing. Expectations were high when they hit the wintery stages of Monte-Carlo in 2017. A solid fifth place for Craig Breen and ninth for Stephane Lefebvre, if not setting the world on fire, were respectable enough, […]
Twelve months ago, if you’d have asked anyone how Toyota would fare in its first year back in the World Rally Championship since 1999, they would have written it off as a learning year. The car was pulled together in less than 10 months and the hastily formed team had weathered a veritable storm of […]
Renault Formula 1 managing director Cyril Abiteboul believes that Jolyon Palmer deserves to be racing in a world-class championship in 2018, despite the Brit being dropped from the team after the Japanese Grand Prix. Palmer drove for the French manufacturer for two seasons, with a highest finish of sixth position at the 2017 Singapore Grand […]
Lewis Hamilton believes that Sebastian Vettel will learn from the mistakes he made in his failed 2017 Formula 1 championship bid, and will come back stronger in 2018. Hamilton wrapped up the title in Mexico with two races to go, despite Vettel having led the championship up until as late as Monza. Key mistakes from […]
It’s one year since Liberty Media took control of Formula 1 and people are beginning to question just what its achieved in its maiden season. For decades the end of Bernie’s reign was eagerly awaited and feared in equal measure, contemplated as little more than legend. Bernie has survived heart surgery, bribery accusations, civil wars […]
2017 began with only one true rookie, not exactly making it a golden year for new racing talent coming into the spotlight of the top of the single-seater ladder. While 2016 ushered in Mercedes talents Esteban Ocon and Pascal Wehrlein as well as Jolyon Palmer, Rio Haryanto and gave Stoffel Vandoorne his debut outing, 2017 […]
Brendon Hartley will maintain his links with Porsche, despite his contract to race with Toro Rosso in Formula 1 in 2018. Hartley has spent the latter part of 2017 competing in both the World Endurance Championship with Porsche and driving for Toro Rosso in F1, but with Porsche bringing to an end their LMP1 campaign, […]
Felipe Massa has said that he would “like to accept a new challenge” for 2018, after announcing that he retiring from Formula 1 at the end of the season. The Brazilian was set to retire at the end of 2016 but was recalled by Williams when they had a sudden vacancy after Valtteri Bottas was […]