Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel will be working with a new race engineer among alterations taking place in their technical department, the team’s sources confirm. The reigning world champion has had a testing 2014 campaign so far this year, struggling to get on top of the Red Bull and its different demands, whilst being outshone by […]
Lewis Hamilton has claimed his team-mate Nico Rosberg came clean about the incident at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix. Hamilton passed pole-sitter Rosberg off the line despite having to reverse his car into his grid box before the start. Having fended off an attack from Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel on the opening lap, […]
Marussia have done a U-turn on their decision to replace Max Chilton with Alexander Rossi for this weekend’s race at Spa, the team confirm. The news broke yesterday of the Banbury-based team opting to have Rossi, who joined the team as reserve driver last month, step in for the British driver with the need for […]
2013 was a brief snapshot of what 2014 was going to bring for the Brackley-based team: greater success, with the team having exceeded their expectations of last season, taking three race wins and nine podiums, especially the expectations of Lewis Hamilton’s first season with the team. All the recruitment and poaching of technical bosses and […]
Three-time Le Mans winner André Lotterer will make his Formula 1 debut at the Belgian Grand Prix in place of Kamui Kobayashi, Caterham confirm. The news has come after strong rumours stating that Kobayashi was unlikely to see out the remainder of the season and Lotterer was poised to take over from the Japanese driver, […]
Force India are hoping to put on a strong display to kick off their second half of the season as the Formula 1 heads to Spa after its mid-season break. Prior to Hungary, Force India were among the most consistent teams in the first half of the season, one of the only three teams to […]
Lotus Technical Director Nick Chester says further major updates are expected to appear on the Lotus car in the next few races. The Formula 1 circus returns from it’s mid-season break, including the mandatory two-week factory shutdown. With the Belgian Grand Prix next week, Chester and his team are determined to push on with the […]
Pastor Maldonado is hopeful that team-mate Romain Grosjean will decide to stay with Lotus amid recent comments from him that he is pondering his future with the team. Grosjean revealed earlier this week that he was weighing up his options for next season during the mid-season break, with this season so far seeing Lotus struggling […]
European Formula 3 driver Max Verstappen has become a member of Red Bull’s junior driver programme, the energy drinks company confirmed. The highly-regarded 16-year-old, whose family has previous history in Formula 1 with father Jos racing for various teams including the Red Bull F1 team’s previous incarnation Minardi, was known to be of high interest […]
Sauber team principal and CEO Monisha Kalterborn has urged her team to show some “more courage” if they are to improve on their current showing this season. The-Swiss based team are enduring their worst season in its 11 year Formula 1 history, with the outfit yet to open their points account within the first 11 […]
“Punching above its weight” has been a metaphor strongly associated with Force India in recent seasons, their first half of the season means that the metaphor can be used to describe the team’s 2014 efforts once again. After finishing 6th in the constructors championship last season, having conceded 5th to McLaren during the second half […]
Daniel Ricciardo has expressed his delight of out-performing his reigning world champion team-mate Sebastian Vettel this season. The Australian, who joined Red Bull this season from junior team Toro Rosso, has exceeded the expectations of many and has had the upper hand on Vettel in the first half of the season, currently 43 points ahead […]