McLaren racing director Eric Boullier sees the development of the McLaren MP4-29 chassis this season as a “laboratory” for the McLaren-Honda chassis that’ll be raced next season. The beginning of McLaren’s works partnership with Honda next year will mean that the Woking-based team part ways with Mercedes-Benz completely after their 20 year association, with the relationship between Mercedes-Benz and McLaren […]
Felipe Massa says he would pass on the highs and lows experienced during his time at Williams to other teams should he switch teams in the future, including a return to his former team Ferrari. The team from Maranello have had a trying campaign so far, with the team winless and have only two podiums to […]
Pirelli Motorsport director Paul Hembery says Pirelli are concentrating on developing tyres as big as 19-inches for Formula 1 as opposed to the 18-inch tyres they were originally pushing for. The sport’s tyre manufacturer previously trialled 18-inch low-profile tyres on the Lotus E22 during the post-race test at Silverstone with a view at a possible […]
Jenson Button has been moved by the up-turn in performance by his former team Williams that sees them lie 4th in the constructors championship so far this season. The Grove-based outfit’s 2014 season has gone some way to making their dismal 2013 campaign look like a distant memory, having three podium finishes and a pole […]
Toro Rosso driver Jean-Eric Vergne is positive that things will fair better for him in the second half of the season than they did in the first half. The Frenchman, who is in his third season with Toro Rosso, has had his season plagued with unreliability from the car’s side so far, having suffered five […]
Ferrari have confirmed that director of engine and electronics Luca Marmorini has departed after five years with the Scuderia. The Italian team plot a return back to the sharp end of the grid after their difficult season so far, which sees them lie 3rd and 251 points behind runaway leaders Mercedes in the constructors standings […]
Vijay Mallya believes his Force India team can regain the ground lost to Williams in the constructors championship. The Silverstone-based team heads into the mid-season break having held a place in the top 4 of the constructors standings for the majority of the season so far, with the team being as high as 2nd having […]
Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner supports Lewis Hamilton’s defiance of orders from his Mercedes team to let team-mate Nico Rosberg through during the Hungarian Grand Prix. Mercedes were caught in unfamiliar territory on race day in Hungary with Hamilton and Rosberg chasing rather than leading the pack and found themselves on the same piece […]
There will be a reversal on the decision to introduce standing grid restarts to Formula 1 for next season, according to German publication AMuS. Standing grid restarts after safety car periods were among the proposals put forward by the F1 Commission and approved by the FIA in order to add more excitement to the sport […]
Over the last few races the Mercedes team have found themselves fending off conspiracy theories on social media of Lewis Hamilton’s car being tampered with for the sake of favouring Nico Rosberg for the championship because of the consistency in the unreliability the former has suffered. I honestly haven’t seen the posts made to the […]
Jenson Button expects the upgrades McLaren brought to Hockenheim to bring more gains to the car at Hungary than the gains made at Hockenheim. The McLaren duo of Button and Kevin Magnussen finished 8th and 9th respectively in Hockenheim, with Magnuseen unable to fully capitalise on his equalled best grid start after a major first-corner […]
Azerbaijan has announced that a deal has been struck with Formula 1 commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone for the country to host a Grand Prix in 2016. The country will be the scene of the returning European Grand Prix, which was discontinued after its 2012 edition in Valencia, with the race set to be held in […]