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Alexander Rossi made it 4-0 against Manor team-mate Will Stevens with 15th place in the Mexican Grand Prix – an impressive score, even more so when considering the Briton has been driving all season and regularly outperformed Roberto Merhi. “I got a great start and a good run down to the first corner. I was […]
Carlos Sainz Jr suffered a pointless Mexican Grand Prix as he carried his Toro Rosso home to finish 13th. The Spaniard spoke of how he could’ve added to his championship tally had the safety car on lap 52 not been deployed: “It was a bit of a disaster in the last stint compared to previous. […]
Sergio Perez followed up his podium in Russia with a fifth-place finish in the most unpredictable race in Austin. “We are happy to come away with fifth place and ten points from a weekend with such difficult weather conditions. The track was very damp to begin with and I was lacking pace on the intermediates […]
Daniil Kvyat says he could have won the United States GP had it stayed wet at the Circuit of The Americas. The Russian overtook team-mate Ricciardo and Rosberg at the start of the race and was challenging Lewis Hamilton for the lead. He fought closely with the Mercedes for the first half of the race, […]
The session started on time despite the pouring rain. Drivers took to the circuit in the first few minutes to make the most of, possibly, the best the track conditions were going to get. If qualifying is abandoned completely, the FP3 order has a slim chance to dictate the starting grid, so the teams and […]
Mercedes executive director Toto Wolff says Pascal Wehrlein’s chances of a Formula One seat in 2016 are 50/50. Speaking to Sportschau at Hockenheim for the final race of the DTM season, Wolff praised Mercedes’ reserve driver, Wehrlein, saying he’d done a “super job” with in-season testing where he completed one day for both Mercedes and […]
“Balance OK, but it is like driving on ice. Poor grip. I’m caught on the straight like a GP2. This is embarrassing, very embarrassing.” – Alonso’s radio message to his engineer during the Japanese Grand Prix, the home race of his engine supplier. “GP2 engine, GP2!” he exclaimed, later on. Whilst many expected the Japanese […]
Kimi Raikkonen finished the 2015 Russian Grand Prix in 8th place after starting the final lap in 4th place, because of an optimistic move on Valtteri Bottas which left both Finns worse off. “All through the race the car was behaving well, especially after the pit stop, but then I was stuck behind other cars […]
Romain Grosjean crashed out of the Russian GP, losing control of his Lotus in the fast left-hander of turn 3 at Sochi Autodrom. The Frenchman walked away from the aftermath with only a bandage on his shoulder to show for it as he left the medical centre. “I’m fine,” he said. “I won’t be able […]
Nico Rosberg has claimed his second consecutive pole position in Russia ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas. Drivers came into qualifying with limited dry track experience this weekend but Rosberg set an impressive benchmark in Q1 with a 1:38.3 with the prime tyre, whilst everyone bar team-mate Hamilton ran the supersoft compound. With Carlos […]
Ferrari have unofficially set the fastest ever complete Formula One pit stop at 1.85 seconds with Kimi Raikkonen’s second change in the Japanese Grand Prix. The data log on the #7 SF-15T suggests the stop was over a tenth-of-a-second faster than the officially recorded two seconds. The un-broadcasted event happened on lap 28 of the […]
Pastor Maldonado has praised his team after he and teammate Grosjean scored a double-points finish in the Japanese Grand Prix. “It was a good race for us and we really deserved a happy result today after pushing hard all weekend”, the Venezuelan said after finishing 8th – directly behind his teammate. Maldonado made his way […]