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After a shocking loss to Sebastian Vettel in Malaysia two weeks ago, Lewis Hamilton quelled any talk of a Ferrari championship challenge with a dominant weekend in Shanghai, capped by a carefully controlled victory in Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix. Perhaps a bit too carefully controlled for his team-mate Nico Rosberg’s liking. After the race, Rosberg complained in the FIA press conference...
Published: April 8, 2015
This weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix will only mark the 12th running of the race. The Shanghai International Circuit does not have the glamorous, mystical, dangerous history of older Formula One circuits like Monza or Silverstone or Monaco. Still, the 11 Chinese Grand Prixs to date have produced some great moments and some dangerous ones, some humorous moments and some sublime ones. As the F1 circus...
Published: April 7, 2015
Just before three o’clock in the afternoon on New Year’s Day, 1968, 23 men lined up on the starting grid for the South African Grand Prix, the first race of the new Formula One season. The hot African sun beamed down on the slim, metal cars, and sweat soaked the drivers before the starting flag even waved. The cars formed a rainbow against the black tarmac, none of them yet marred by the...
Published: April 5, 2015
Like Seinfeld‘s Frank Costanza at Festivus, Red Bull and their engine supplier, Renault, have spent the early part of the 2015 Formula One season publicly airing their grievances with each other. Now, a truce has been called, although Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko could not resist one last shot at the French auto company. While calling for an end to the public battle, Marko told Servus TV...
Published: March 31, 2015
Back in 2002, when the Brazilian Grand Prix was still one of the first races in the Formula One season, someone asked Brazilian soccer superstar Pele to wave the chequered flag at the end of the race. Unfortunately, when Michael Schumacher crossed the start/finish line to win the grand prix, Pele was “happily chatting to a friend,” according to the BBC, and he did not wave the flag....
Published: March 29, 2015
While Pope Francis wore traditional red robes to celebrate the beginning of Holy Week in Vatican City, another red-clad Italian institution, Scuderia Ferrari, pulled off a resurrection miracle, with the team’s new driver, Sebastian Vettel, winning the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday. With his victory, Vettel now sits just three points behind Lewis Hamilton in the Formula One Drivers’...
Published: March 26, 2015
After an underwhelming start to the season Down Under, the Formula One circus reconvenes this weekend outside Kuala Lumpur for the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Sepang International Circuit was the first track Hermann Tilke designed from scratch, and it remains one of his best. The two long straights connected by a slow hairpin remain the circuit’s defining feature, but it also offers a challenging...
Published: March 21, 2015
Despite Bernie Ecclestone’s assertion that, “It is inevitable that there will be another female [Formula One] driver,” as reported by Luke Smith and Christian Sylt in Forbes, recent developments mean a woman on the F1 starting grid is anything but inevitable—at least in the near future. Williams test driver Susie Wolff is currently the closest female driver to a race seat. Last...
Published: March 17, 2015
Some people are born winners—no matter what they choose to do in life, they find a way to be successful. McLaren CEO Ron Dennis is one of those people. His team may be down right now, but if anyone can find a way to lead them back to the top of Formula One, it is Dennis. Since he took over the McLaren team at the end of 1980, they have been one of the most successful Formula...
Published: March 15, 2015
Sebastian Vettel scored a third-place finish in his Ferrari debut at the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, confirming the Italian team’s strong preseason showing. The Melbourne race, which kicked off the 2015 Formula One season, might also have confirmed a changing of the guard at the front end of the grid. Last year, after four straight championship seasons, Red Bull were Mercedes’ closest...