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Lewis Hamilton has finally made a date to have what will probably be one of the most difficult conversations that he will ever have. He has agreed to meet up with McLaren CEO, mentor and benefactor Ron Dennis in Abu Dhabi next week, according to ESPN F1. It has been a source of some interest that Hamilton has not spoken to Dennis since announcing that he will be joining Mercedes GP for the 2013 season. Dennis...
Published: October 17, 2012
Felipe Massa is the luckiest driver in the Formula One paddock at the moment. Quite aside from the miraculous survival and recovery after taking a high speed spring to the head and crashing in Budapest in 2009—an incident that almost claimed his life—Massa now seems to have escaped with his racing life. After a dreadful couple of seasons as Fernando Alonso’s sidekick at Ferrari,...
Published: October 14, 2012
While Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull had the perfect day at the Korean Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton and McLaren bade farewell to the last, faint hope of securing the 2012 world championship. Vettel took the lead at the first corner and was never headed or troubled as he controlled the race from start to finish—despite some excessive consternation about tyre wear towards the end of the race. His...
Published: October 13, 2012
Mark Webber getting pole at the Korean Grand Prix has created a bit of a problem for Red Bull Racing. While the team’s plan would always have been a front-row lockout, they probably couldn’t have predicted that Felipe Massa would get in the way as Sebastian Vettel started his final hot lap. By qualifying second, Vettel is stranded on the dirty side of the grid, with Lewis Hamilton starting...
Published: October 7, 2012
Sergio Perez found out the hard way that the realities of Formula One racing can bite hard as he threw away an opportunity for some good points at the Japanese Grand Prix. While Perez was still basking in the glow of his meteoric rise to a seat in a leading team, his enthusiasm got the better of him with some adventurous overtaking attempts, the last of which saw him buried in the gravel trap at the...
Published: October 5, 2012
McLaren have had an interesting time lately. They have lost Lewis Hamilton to Mercedes in a dramatic bidding war, but managed to pick up one of the most exciting prospects on the grid in Sergio Perez. While there has been plenty of media speculation about life at McLaren, a number of drivers have taken it upon themselves to share their opinions with the world. Fernando Alonso delivered a savage broadside...
Published: October 4, 2012
Michael Schumacher has done what everyone expected him to do and announced that he will retire for the second—and final—time from Formula One. ESPN F1 quotes the German superstar as saying: I have decided to retire from Formula 1 at the end of the season, although I am still able to compete with the best drivers of the world. This is something that makes me proud, and this is part of why...
Published: October 3, 2012
There aren’t many premium drives still open in the Formula 1 paddock for a once-retired and now-unemployed seven-time world champion driver like Michael Schumacher to secure. The vacancy at McLaren was filled suspiciously quickly, almost as if they had already assumed that Lewis Hamilton would abandon them. Not that Sergio Perez would have needed too long to accept the offer of a drive. Red Bull...
Published: October 2, 2012
Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula 1 puppetmaster, has announced that he thinks the 2014 engine changes should be scrapped. Unsurprisingly, Ecclestone’s proclamation came after meeting with Ferrari boss, Luca di Montezemolo, at the Maranello factory where the two reviewed Ferrari’s new engine development. ESPN F1 quotes Ecclestone: I listened to the noise of the engines in (Ferrari’s...
Published: October 1, 2012
Any faint hope that Lewis Hamilton still had of taking out this year’s Formula 1 world championship must surely have evaporated with his announcement that he was leaving McLaren to take Michael Schumacher’s seat at Mercedes GP. At 52 points down with only six races remaining, Hamilton’s chances of claiming the title were already slim, despite the rich form streak that he is enjoying...