Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has admitted that losing to Ferrari in Bahrain had been painful. But he said the team aimed to put that behind them with weekend in Sochi. “You need to be able to draw a line under a tough weekend,” Wolff said this week. “It’s very painful to lose a race like…
Ferrari clinched its third race win of the 2017 Formula 1 season, with Sebastian Vettel claiming his 45th career win and his second at Monaco. Vettel took the lead from the polesitter, Kimi Raikkonen, during the sole round of pit stops. Vettel stayed out longer to gain the advantage on his team mate, a team…
Despite finishing the Canadian Grand Prix with both cars in the points, Force India acknowledges it has a growing problem with its drivers Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon. Perez refused to allow Ocon past during the the Canadian Grand Prix, despite Ocon having fresher tyres and the faster car. The pit wall didn’t go as…
Fernando Alonso believes that his Indy 500 preparation which begins in earnest today can be helped by McLaren’s F1 engineering expertise. The Spanish driver jetted off to Indianapolis right after yesterday’s Spanish Grand Prix with McLaren’s Zak Brown and Eric Boullier and is already hard at work today at the Brickyard where official practice has…
The FIA updated on Thursday the power unit component use for each team and driver ahead of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. Under Formula 1’s current regulations, drivers incur grid penalties if they use more than four of certain power unit components during the course of the season. Needless to say, after four rounds, McLaren…
Force India owner and team principal Vijay Mallya says that they are determined to keep fighting hard for the rest of 2017. At this point in the season, many teams are turning their attention to next year’s car designs. But Mallya insisted this week that Force India’s eyes remain firmly on this year’s prize. “We…
Jolyon Palmer looked all set for a brilliant result in qualifying this afternoon before a gearbox issue thwarted the Renault driver’s efforts. Palmer has unsuccessfully chasing a good result this year following a troubled campaign marked by mistakes, mechanical woes and outside pressure to see him perform. The Briton’s RS17 enjoys at Spa exactly the…
Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton stayed on top of the time sheets in free practice 2 of the 2017 Austrian Grand Prix. Hamilton set a time of 1:05.483s early in FP2, with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel second-fastest ahead of Hamilton’s team mate Valtteri Bottas. It was another good showing from Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo in fourth and…
ART Grand Prix boss Frédéric Vasseur is apparently leading Sauber’s short list of potential team bosses following the departure of Monisha Kaltenborn. The Swiss outfit parted ways with Kaltenborn earlier this week, citing a divergence of views over the team’s future. Vasseur, who led Renault’s works return to F1 last year before leaving following a…
My attitude toward becoming a vegan was similar to Augustine’s attitude toward becoming celibate—“God grant me abstinence, but not yet.” But with animal agriculture as the leading cause of species extinction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and habitat destruction2, and with the death spiral of the ecosystem ever more pronounced, becoming vegan is the most…