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It has been reported that Marussia, a user of the 2014 Ferrari power unit, have found around 20 brake horsepower on the struggling engine. Reports from Italy’s “Autosprint” have said that Ferrari may have to their customer for possibly finding extra power, with ‘power tracks’ such as Spa and Monza coming up. It is believed […]
Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg has questioned the timing of the first safety car during Sunday’s Hungarian GP. Rosberg was leading comfortably before Caterham’s Marcus Ericsson crashed on lap eight to deploy the safety car. At the time that the safety was released, the leading four, Rosberg, Valtteri Bottas, Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso had already passed […]
Ferrari have released a statement denying recent reports that engineering director, Pat Fry was recently fired. Sky Sports F1 believe that Fry is one of a number of high-profile engineers to be sacked after a tough first half of the season for Ferrari. Also reported earlier this month was that Ferrari had hired ten new […]
Nico Rosberg secured a hard fought pole position ahead of Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and Williams’ Valtteri Bottas. Vettel’s team-mate Daniel Ricciardo put in a strong performance for fourth and Fernando Alonso out-performed his car it seemed once again for a strong fifth place. Felipe Massa will be looking to avoid another first lap collision […]
Mercedes once again dominated free practice at Hungary to end the second session with Lewis Hamilton fastest and team-mate Nico Rosberg in second. The two Silver Arrows led Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso who put in another strong session for Ferrari. Team-mate Kimi Raikkonen was in 6th, almost 0.3 off Alonso. Kevin Magnussen […]
1997 Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve believes that both Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel will not continue with their current teams for much longer. Hamilton joined Mercedes in 2013 from McLaren and Vettel has been with Red Bull since 2009 after moving up from their junior team, Toro Rosso. With Formula 1’s “silly season” […]
Drivers have been reminded by the FIA that when rejoining the circuit if they run off, to be careful and reduce the risk of an accident after Kimi Raikkonen’s big shunt at Silverstone earlier this month. The Finn ran wide at turn five on the opening lap at the British GP, rejoined and dropped the […]
The steward’s decision which rendered Kevin Magnussen blameless for his first corner collision with Felipe Massa at last weekend’s German GP proved Massa’s allegations of it being the fault of the Dane were wrong according to McLaren’s Racing Director, Eric Boullier. Immediately after the collision, Massa, who was been involved in several first lap incidents […]
Reports say that 7-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher could return home soon, after increasingly good progress after his move to a Swiss rehabilitation centre. After a skiing accident at the end of December, the German spent over six months in an induced coma at the Grenoble hospital in France. He was transferred to the Lausanne […]
Niki Lauda has vented his feelings about Ferrari and McLaren for designing “s**t cars,” that are not able to challenge his teams, Mercedes W05. With six 1-2’s, and nine victories from the first ten races, it has been anything but perfect for the Mercedes team in 2014. Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has complained about […]
Fernando Alonso has praised Daniel Ricciardo for being “very smart” and “very respectful,” during their duel during the German GP. Alonso was told to save fuel, but decided to battle with Ricciardo instead. But, on the final lap, Alonso had to go into drastic fuel saving mode and meant that he beat Ricciardo to the […]
After Nico Rosberg simply breezed to victory at his home Grand Prix, there were plenty of talking points to take away from a very eventful German GP, at Hockenheim. The championship leader, who recently signed a new ‘multi-year’ deal with current team Mercedes, never once relinquished the lead over the 67 lap race distance, and […]