Williams’ Paddy Lowe acknowledged his team’s defeat at the hands of Force India in 2018 as its rival’s development simply outpaced that of the Grove-based outfit. In 2016, Force India snatched fourth place in the Constructors’ standing in the closing stages of the season but this year Williams was left behind by the pink squad…
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen has shrugged off attempts to compare him with former great names from the history of Formula 1. “I’m not really a fan of being compared to anyone,” he told renowned sports journalist Wilfried de Jong in an exclusive interview with Dutch TV broadcaster Ziggo Sport this week. “I try to…
McLaren has secured several new partnerships for 2018, but a significant performance boost would only create more commercial interest says Zak Brown. The Woking-based outfit recently announced a major sponsorship agreement with Dell Technologies, and Brown expects a few more deals to be put in place before the season gets underway in Melbourne next month….
At every public appearance or in each interview, Nico Rosberg gets asked the same question, and his repetitive answer isn’t about to change. The 2016 Formula 1 world champion, who left the sport on a whim weeks after securing the title, feels no desire to get back behind the wheel, despite he’s sustained passion for…
Never without a new idea, livery designer Sean Bull took his modern artistic skills and applied them to an F1 fragment from the past. Sean took a vintage Bell helmet from the 1970s and visualised how it would look for each driver once painted with their current lid design. In most cases, he went for…
Formula 1 bosses have confirmed details of the latest F1 Festival which will be hosted by the French city of Marseilles next week. It follows the success of similar events that have been staged in London and Shanghai in the past year. The festival will take place over the same weekend as the Formula 1…
Lewis Hamilton is struggling to extract the most of his 2018 Mercedes, insisting the W09 is harder to driver than its ‘diva’ predecessor. The reigning world champion finally notched up a win on Sunday, his and the Silver Arrows first of the year, but it was a lucky break for the Brit who inherited the…
Marking the one-year anniversary of the 2014 attack on Gaza, protesters in the United Kingdom and Australia on Monday shut down four drone factories owned by the biggest arms company in Israel, Elbit Systems. The factories produce military drones that were used in Israel’s 51-day offensive last summer, which saw the deaths of more than…
The FIA has concluded that the current Virtual Safety Car system can give some drivers an unfair advantage over their rivals during a race. Sebastian Vettel was able to use a VSC period to his advantage in the first race of the season to leapfrog Lewis Hamilton and win the race. However, that was a…
As the first full day of a tenuous ceasefire takes hold in Yemen, a top Iranian general has warned both the United States and Saudi Arabia against interferring with a cargo vessel, said to be carrying humanitarian aid, as it continued toward the coast of the war-torn nation. U.S. and Saudi officials have said Tehran’s…