Head of Red Bull’s driver development program, Dr Helmut Marko, has described the opening weekends of the 2015 season as disastrous and claims the restrictive power unit rules may make it impossible to close in on Mercedes. Speaking to f1.com, Dr Marko said “We are significantly behind Mercedes. They clearly dominate.” Both in Australia and […]
Mercedes executive director, Toto Wolff admits that a Ferrari win is good for Formula 1 after Sebastian Vettel won the Scuderia’s first since the 2013 Spanish grand prix. Wolff told Sky Sports F1 “You cannot expect that you are going to win races forever and we are here to extract the maximum performance,” “It was […]
A day of mixed fortunes for the World Champions. Nico Rosberg set the fastest time with a 1:40.124 – half a second faster than the best FP1 time from 2014. The session was interrupted 30 minutes in as Lewis Hamilton parked his Mercedes on the grass at turn 9. The engineers receiving no telemetry from […]
Adrian Sutil has been announced as Williams’ reserve driver for the 2015 season. The German has raced in 128 Grands Prix during his career which began back in 2007. “I’m very proud to be a part of such a famous and great F1 team. To work for Sir Frank Williams and his team means a […]
Hockenheim has now ruled out a German Grand Prix at their venue in 2015. This news comes after Bernie Ecclestone announced back in January that the Hockenheim circuit would host the 2015 German Grand Prix because the Nurburgring location could not fund the event. Speaking to German Media, BILD, the circuit Boss, Georg Seiler said “We […]
Lewis Hamilton dominated qualifying down-under, finishing 0.6s faster than team mate Nico Rosberg and 1.4 from nearest non-Mercedes challenger, Felipe Massa in an impressive 3rd place. Vettel pipped Raikkonen in the Ferrari battle in 4th and 5th. Bottas had a messy Q3 but still managed 6th on the grid. Nasr impressed with 11th and Verstappen […]
When Toro Rosso announced they’d given a 19 year old a drive for 2014 with a name I hadn’t heard much of, neither could I even pronounce, I’ll admit I was sceptical. It was Malaysia Free Practice 1, I was watching through Sky F1’s race control – Daniil’s T cam to be precise. I didn’t […]
Lewis Hamilton suggests he will retire from F1 if he is not competitive in his later years. Hamilton, 30, discussed future prospects in F1 with Laureus – a global sports achievement award where the Brit has been nominated for “Sportsman of the Year”, won the previous year by Sebastian Vettel. The double world champion predicts he […]
Williams Martini Racing have confirmed that test driver, Susie Wolff, will drive in FP1 sessions on the weekends of the Spanish and British Grand Prix. In addition, Susie will drive on one day of in-season testing at the Red Bull Ring. Speaking to williamsf1.com, Susie said “Our focus is to build on the success of […]
It was a very cold morning in Catalunya. Temperatures hovering around just 5°C, making teams reluctant to show off their pace early on. Hamilton and Ricciardo had some stints on the medium tyre in the first two hours but it was Nico Hulkenberg in the new VJM08 who was racking up the laps, completing 38 […]
Williams Chief Technical Officer, Pat Symonds, says their FW37 is on par with Ferrari’s championship challenger according to their analysis from the Jerez test earlier this month. “We are where we wanted to be.” Symonds told Auto Motor und Sport. “Ferrari have apparently a made good jump”. Symonds agreed that Williams and Ferrari are neck […]
It was a damp start to Day 3 of testing in Jerez. Rosberg was first on track at 9am sharp. He initially set the benchmark of 1:33.0 in the wet conditions ahead of Ricciardo’s RB11. Red Bull had a troubled morning, completing just 5 laps. An unscheduled engine change was required – an inconvenient setback […]