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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: November 22, 2014
Lewis Hamilton won the 2014 Formula One drivers’ championship in style, taking his 11th victory of the season at Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Hamilton qualified second, but got a great start and led his teammate and championship rival Nico Rosberg into the first corner. Although Rosberg kept the race close through the first round of pit stops, his energy recovery system started to malfunction...
Published: November 18, 2014
The Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi is hosting the final race of the 2014 Formula One season this weekend. While Mercedes have already locked up the constructors’ title, the drivers’ championship will be decided in the desert, with Lewis Hamilton having the inside line on Nico Rosberg to claim the title. This year will mark the sixth running of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, all of them at Yas...
Published: November 16, 2014
Formula One CEO Bernie Ecclestone is very good at a few things. His particular skills include making money, growing a business and getting people upset, not necessarily in that order. His list of ill-considered quotes is lengthy, from the time he compared women to household appliances to his expression of some admiration for Adolf Hitler’s ability to get things done. Last week, Ecclestone made...
Published: November 13, 2014
On October 11, Jolyon Palmer won the GP2 feature race at the Sochi Autodrom, clinching the 2014 GP2 title. Palmer is the first British driver to win the series since current Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton did it in 2006. After winning the title with one race weekend to spare, Palmer told the official GP2 Series website: “The first priority was to win GP2 and I was always...
Published: November 12, 2014
The last two Formula One grands prix, in the United States and Brazil, provided further evidence that the new generation of cars, powered by hybrid V6 engines, are closing in on the performance levels of their V8-powered predecessors. At the same time, reliability is increasing as the teams learn the intricacies of the new power units. In Austin two weeks ago, Nico Rosberg‘s pole-clinching qualifying...
Published: November 8, 2014
Nico Rosberg turned in his most complete performance of the season in Sao Paulo on Sunday to win the Brazilian Grand Prix ahead of his teammate and title rival Lewis Hamilton. Rosberg qualified on pole and—although Hamilton kept the race close—was never really challenged for the lead. Rosberg’s fifth win of the season leaves him 17 points behind Hamilton with one race remaining. The...
Published: November 5, 2014
The 2014 Brazilian Grand Prix will be the 32nd time the Formula One world championship visits the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace—better known as Interlagos—in Sao Paulo. Mercedes has already won the constructors’ championship and one of their drivers will win the drivers’ title—but which one? The second-last race of the season will not decide the championship, but it does...
Published: November 3, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas — Lewis Hamilton turned in another dominant performance at the U.S. Grand Prix on Sunday, overcoming a brake issue in qualifying that left him starting behind his teammate, Nico Rosberg. But despite Hamilton’s win—his fifth in a row and 10th this season—the Formula One drivers’ championship remains in doubt. Now, a potential disaster looms in the desert...
Published: November 1, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas—When Sebastian Vettel surprised everyone before the Japanese Grand Prix with the news that he was leaving Red Bull at the end of the year, the team wasted no time in confirming his replacement. And just as they did last year, when Mark Webber retired, the team did not look for a big name or proven race winner to fill the empty seat. Instead, they promoted Daniil Kvyat from Toro...
Published: November 1, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas—Outside Austin, there is a highway that passes in front of the Circuit of Americas—the host venue for the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix—where the speed limit is 85 mph (137 kph). That is the highest posted speed limit in North America, according to The Globe and Mail‘s Peter Cheney. On Wednesday, though, I didn’t even have to leave downtown Austin to experience...