Sebastian Vettel finished on top of the timing screens after the first of two days of post-season tyre testing at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. Vettel’s best lap of 1:36.812s came after he completed a relatively limited run of 69 laps of the the 21-turn, 5.554km track following a morning incident in which he…
Daniel Ricciardo says he hit it off well with McLaren during his exploratory talks with management last summer, but he ultimately dismissed the team’s offer for 2019 because of its insufficient potential for success. Ricciardo spent the better part of the first half of last year’s season pondering his future and weighing his options which…
Hermann Tilke views the 12-month time frame to build the street track for next year’s Vietnam Grand Prix as short, but Formula One’s resident architect is confident he can make it happen. Last November, Liberty Media announced an expansion of the Formula 1 calendar in Asia with the sport’s commercial rights holder signing a multi-year…
Antonio Giovinazzi says the motivation that inhabits today’s Alfa Romeo Racing/Sauber team is far greater than it was when he made his F1 debut with the Swiss outfit in 2017. While he is perceived as a rookie this year, Giovinazzi raced for Sauber in the opening two Grands Prix of the 2017 season, when he…
Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari heads into the new season embodied with the “right spirit” after addressing the weaknesses it faced in 2018. The Italian outfit has emerged as the clear favourite to take top spoils in Melbourne after its SF90 outpaced its rivals in pre-season testing. But changes at the helm of the Scuderia, where…
Mercedes’ dominance in free practice at Paul Ricard continued unabated in Saturday’s FP3 with Valtteri Bottas leading Lewis Hamilton in the final practice session. The Finn clocked in with a 1m30.159 on his final morning run, edging his team mate by 0.041s. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel were nowhere closer to challenging their Silver…
Ferrari’s initial analysis of Charles Leclerc’s sudden loss of power in the Bahrain Grand Prix points to a cylinder miscombustion issue as the source of the performance drop. Leclerc was comfortably leading Sunday’s race, head and shoulders above the opposition, when he reported a problem with his power unit just over ten laps from the…
Two-time world champion Mika Hakkinen believes Ferrari should stop “playing games” and focus its attention on winning if it ambitions to beat Mercedes this season. In his regular post-race commentary for Unibet, the former McLaren driver reflected on last weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix, and claimed that Ferrari were wrong to resort to team orders in…
As the saying goes: the stone age did not end due to the lack of stones and the oil age will not end due to lack of oil. It will end due to climate change and the coming clean energy revolution. And the end date could be nearer than you think. According to academics at…
Theoretically, it would be a great story for the American press: an autocrat so obsessed with overthrowing the leader of a neighboring country that he authorizes his intelligence services to collaborate with terrorists in staging a lethal sarin attack to be blamed on his enemy and thus trick major powers to launch punishing bombing raids…