Chinese Grand Prix – day two
In only his third qualifying session for Mercedes Lewis Hamilton has taken pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix. A great lap by Kimi Räikkönen meant that he will line…
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A little over five laps? Is that really as long as Pirelli’s soft tyre is going to last this weekend? According to Pirelli it is. When Rosberg was asked how…
You’d have absolutely no idea there was a Formula 1 race on in Shanghai this weekend unless you were standing in the pit lane watching the cars be pushed to…
Races had always been against the clock. Practice was a more leisurely pursuit: a chance to (re)acquaint and rehearse and, hopefully, to fine-tune and, at worst, rebuild. Until the Monaco…
The Red Bull controversy in Sepang has unsurprisingly dominated Formula 1 conversation in recent days, and the rights and wrongs of it will doubtless figure in my next Motor Sport…
‘Pay drivers’ have been a hot topic among motor sport fans for decades, perhaps now more than ever. But the notion that money equals an easy route to Formula 1…
There were definitely more plus points than negatives about being a student, from what I remember. The biggest downside, of course, was a severe lack of cash and correspondingly, the…
Our new website columnist Lee McKenzie came into the office yesterday to record her first Motor Sport podcast. First up was the aftermath of the Malaysian Grand Prix, but we…
You knew where you were with Luigi Fagioli: in his bad books – unless, that is, you were helping to ensure he was winning. Because of his generally grumpy demeanour,…
In only his third qualifying session for Mercedes Lewis Hamilton has taken pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix. A great lap by Kimi Räikkönen meant that he will line…
A little over five laps? Is that really as long as Pirelli’s soft tyre is going to last this weekend? According to Pirelli it is. When Rosberg was asked how…
You’d have absolutely no idea there was a Formula 1 race on in Shanghai this weekend unless you were standing in the pit lane watching the cars be pushed to…
Races had always been against the clock. Practice was a more leisurely pursuit: a chance to (re)acquaint and rehearse and, hopefully, to fine-tune and, at worst, rebuild. Until the Monaco…
The Red Bull controversy in Sepang has unsurprisingly dominated Formula 1 conversation in recent days, and the rights and wrongs of it will doubtless figure in my next Motor Sport…
‘Pay drivers’ have been a hot topic among motor sport fans for decades, perhaps now more than ever. But the notion that money equals an easy route to Formula 1…
There were definitely more plus points than negatives about being a student, from what I remember. The biggest downside, of course, was a severe lack of cash and correspondingly, the…
Our new website columnist Lee McKenzie came into the office yesterday to record her first Motor Sport podcast. First up was the aftermath of the Malaysian Grand Prix, but we…
You knew where you were with Luigi Fagioli: in his bad books – unless, that is, you were helping to ensure he was winning. Because of his generally grumpy demeanour,…
Sepang’s abrasive tarmac did more than shred Formula 1 tyres – it scrambled team simulations and may well have handed Red Bull an unassailable advantage in the Bahrain Grand Prix, that reshaped the competitive order, as Mark Hughes explains
Back in Malaysia for the first time in nine years, plenty of Formula 1 teams were caught out by the unique characteristics of the Sepang circuit where one decision had a devastating effect on their whole Bahrain GP weekend
Mark Hughes dissects how Sepang’s brutally abrasive surface and restricted tyre allocation are turning this weekend into a strategic gauntlet where the right compound choice could matter more than raw pace
The first few months of this season were nervous ones for the bosses of Red Bull’s Formula 1 team. Victories were not on the agenda. The car Red Bull had…
Who knows what riches Max Verstappen was offered to lure him away from Red Bull Racing? A blank cheque, the keys to any kingdom he might desire and all the…
Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy – established a decade ago by the seven-times MotoGP king to create a new generation of Italian talent – has so far produced one MotoGP…
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