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R3Japanese GP
27–29 Mar
Johnny Aiwone

Johnny Aiwone

Sports Journalist · 139 articles

F1 News

Da Costa prioritises DTM over Formula 1 prospects

Antonio Felix da Costa is in admission over his chances of getting into Formula 1, conceding that the opportunity of racing in the sport has probably passed. The Portuguese driver, now racing in DTM and in the next round of Formula E, had been widely tipped by many to make the step up to F1 […]

F1 News

Championship is still up for grabs – Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton firmly believes that his championship challenge is still very much on despite the setbacks he’s endured throughout the 2014 campaign. Hamilton’s bid for a second world championship has been stiffled by unreliability and driver mistakes, mostly in qualifying, while retiring in Australia, Canada and most recently Spa. Leaving him to claw back big […]

Formula E

Formula E Championship Preview: Electrically Charging into the Motorsport scene

Motorsport’s desire to become more road-relevant and reduce carbon emissions omitted from vehicles has taken a step forward with the Formula E championship being the FIA’s first full-electric racing series, going beyond following in the footsteps of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) and most recently Formula 1, which both feature hybrid technology, and adopting electric […]

F1 News

Pirelli announce tyre choices for Japan and Russia

Pirelli have announced the tyre compounds they’ll supply teams with at the Japanese Grand Prix and the inaugural Russian Grand Prix next month. The Italian tyre manufacturer are to bring their hardest rubber in the medium and hard compounds Suzuka, mainly to ensure that the car can deal with the forces the long, high-speed challenging […]

F1 News

FIA ban performance-enhancing radio messages

Formula 1 teams will face a restriction in the amount of radio communication done between driver and team personnel as early as the next race in Singapore. The FIA have focused the restriction of team radio through the imposing of a ban on radio messages relayed to the driver that has a primary aim of […]

F1 News

Sirotkin to drive for Sauber in first practice in Sochi

Sauber test driver Sergey Sirotkin is to get his first run in a Formula 1 car during a grand prix weekend at his home race in Sochi. The 19-year-old currently racing in Formula Renault 3.5 series joined the Swiss-based team during the middle of last year, with a view to racing for the team this […]

F1 News

Lotus admits error in E22 chassis design

Lotus team owner Gérard Lopez admits that the team have gone in the wrong direction in terms of how their chassis is designed. The Enstone-based outfit have endured a difficult 2014 campaign on the track alongside battling financial woes, with the team having had a miniscule return of 8 points in comparison to the 191 […]

F1 News

Wolff rubbishes Monza conspiracy claims

Toto Wolff has rubbished claims from the wider public that he reacted positively to Nico Rosberg’s off-track excursion that paved the way for Lewis Hamilton to take victory at Monza. As Hamilton took the race lead from Rosberg after the latter’s second trip through the escape road television images showed Wolff smiling soon after the […]

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Monza race was "a day to forget" for Ferrari – Mattiacci

Ferrari team principal Marco Mattiacci referred to Ferrari’s disappointing performance on race day at Monza as “a day to forget”. The Italian marque’s struggle for raw speed was reflected both during qualifying and on race day on home soil after some promise for the Tifosi showed in practice sessions.. With Fernando Alonso enduring his first […]

F1 News

McLaren "very likely" to run Honda chassis before Jerez

The chances of McLaren testing with a Honda power unit before Formula 1 pre-season testing next year are “very likely”, according to McLaren racing director Eric Boullier. The 2015 season will see both McLaren and Honda renew a partnership that saw them dominate the sport from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. Honda Motorsport […]

F1 News

Horner satisfied with Red Bull Monza showing

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has expressed his satisfaction with his team’s performance in the race. Following Daniel Ricciardo’s back-to-back wins in Hungary and Spa, the Milton-Keynes were predicted to struggle for outright performance at the power-dominant Monza this weekend and switched their attention to maximising the car’s performance and getting the best result […]

F1 News

Gutierrez receives time penalty for incident with Grosjean

Esteban Gutierrez has been handed a 20 second time penalty after his collision on-track with Romain Grosjean. The Sauber driver seemed to have weaved into the path of the Lotus driver when trying to effect a pass on him en route to the braking zone of the Rettifilo Chicane. The pair touched, with Grosjean losing […]