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Qualifying report: Lewis Hamilton took pole for the first ever Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom with a lap two tenths of a second quicker than team-mate Nico Rosberg. Hamilton’s lap of 1:38.513 gave him an 8-7 qualifying advantage over his team-mate and a strong chance of a fourth win on the trot at […]
Race report: Lewis Hamilton won a disrupted, wet and ultimately aborted Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, leading home team-mate Nico Rosberg to extend his world championship lead by a further seven points. Despite Mercedes recording yet another one-two, the mood in the pitlane was a sombre one, as the race was called off on lap […]
Qualifying report: Nico Rosberg took his eighth pole of the year at Suzuka with a commanding performance that swept team-mate Lewis Hamilton aside by almost two tenths of a second. Rosberg set provisional pole on their first runs with a 1:32.629 and then shaved more than a tenth off that time with a pole lap […]
Lewis Hamilton won a slow-burning Singapore Grand Prix to take the championship lead at the expense of his team-mate, Nico Rosberg, who failed to finish due to technical issues on his Mercedes. A procedural race was brought alive by a safety car on lap 31, timed awkwardly enough to throw pit strategies into chaos. Hamilton, […]
Overview After four straight driver’s and constructor’s championships, the pressure was always on Red Bull Racing (RBR) to maintain their supremacy in 2014 and push on for five straight titles. Circumstances haven’t exactly fallen their way though, starting with the sweeping rule changes brought on by the new turbo V6 era. As with any major […]
Watching the start of the British Grand Prix a month ago, my initial reaction to Kimi Raikkonen’s ridiculous first-lap accident was one of complete disbelief. However now, on reflection, that crash appears to have been symptomatic of a wider theme that I believe has begun to emerge in Formula 1. Looking at 2014 in a […]
Overview After Daniel Ricciardo got promoted to the big time, Toro Rosso entered 2014 with a driver line up of mixed experience. Jean-Eric Vergne was kept on for a third year and was joined by 2013 GP3 champion, Daniil Kvyat. At 19 years of age, some begrudged the young Russian his chance ahead of the […]
Nico Rosberg banked a straight-forward and unopposed pole position on both his and Mercedes’ home ground at Hockenheim, but the fairy tale was somewhat diminished for the Brackley outfit after Lewis Hamilton crashed out of Q1 with brake failure. Rosberg nailed a lap of 1:16.540 to pip the superb Valterri Bottas by two tenths of […]
The last few weeks have seen substantial shifts in Formula 1’s political, sporting and technical structure and future. Some changes have been made with good intentions, others with hidden agendas, and others for completely illogical and barely decipherable reasons. Perhaps it’s time to step back and work out what the focus really should be and […]
The Williams’ of Felipe Massa and Valterri Bottas locked out an immensely popular front row in Austria, turning the form book on its head and relegating Mercedes to highly unusual 3rd and 9th places. The Austrian fans gave Massa a standing ovation for his first pole position since Brazil 2008, the popular Brazilian also scoring […]
Daniel Ricciardo emerged from the Canadian Grand Prix as Formula 1’s 105th race winner, and as an Australian myself, it was a proud and patriotic moment. But even trying to be as much of a neutral observer as one can, it’s still hard to avoid the sheer significance of the young West Australian’s achievements. I’ve […]
Daniel Ricciardo played his cards to perfection to take his maiden F1 victory in a Canadian Grand Prix that came to a nail-bitingly spectacular crescendo. With no more than 10 seconds covering the top eight with 10 laps to go, it was almost anybody’s race for the taking and predicting a result was nigh on […]