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Formula One returns to its heartland this weekend for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. It will be the fourth race in a ridiculous five weekends that have seen the teams crisscross the globe from Canada to Azerbaijan to Austria to the English countryside, 120 kilometres north-west of London. With only a few days to digest the action from the Red Bull Ring, where Nico Rosberg was penalised for...
Published: July 3, 2016
Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton collided on the final lap of Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix, the third incident between the Mercedes team-mates in the last five Formula One races. Immediately following the race, Mercedes executive director Toto Wolff said it might be time to consider implementing team orders to control his drivers. Such a decision, though, would be bad for the sport, bad for F1...
Published: June 29, 2016
After visiting Baku, Azerbaijan, for the first time, the Formula One circus returns to more familiar territory this weekend for the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg. Lewis Hamilton won in Monaco and Canada, but his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg, put an end to his short streak at the European Grand Prix in Baku. The German has also won both races since the series returned to...
Published: June 28, 2016
MONTREAL — The rhythm and routine of each Formula One race weekend is the same, whether the teams find themselves in Melbourne or Monza, Monaco or Montreal. This season, the F1 travelling circus will visit 21 different countries, but the general outline of each event is always the same: press conference, practice, practice, press conference, practice, qualifying, press conference, race, press...
Published: June 26, 2016
MONTREAL — Romain Grosjean has 10 Formula One podium finishes in his career. It is difficult to tell whether we should be impressed by that number, given he hasn’t spent a ton of time in a top car, or disappointed that a driver with such obvious talent has not had the machinery to allow him to shine as his career has progressed. After two difficult years at Lotus (now Renault), with the...
Published: June 22, 2016
The biggest story from the European Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan, was not Nico Rosberg’s win, nor Sergio Perez’s unlikely podium; it was the backlash against the FIA’s ban on radio messages from teams giving advice to their drivers. Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen both had engine problems and grew increasingly frustrated when their engineers could...
Published: June 19, 2016
During preparations for the European Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan, Mercedes executive director Toto Wolff said Ferrari and Red Bull were essentially level with Mercedes’ performance. “The speed of both the Ferrari and Red Bull is pretty much where we are now,” he said, per ESPN F1’s Nate Saunders. “… We are seeing the convergence of performance between teams that...
Published: June 16, 2016
Hermann Tilke has a mixed reputation in Formula One circles. The 61-year-old German engineer has designed every new F1 venue since the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia was introduced in 1999 and also redesigned several older tracks. Some, like the Circuit of the Americas, Istanbul Park and Sepang, are regarded as modern classics. Others, like the Valencia Street Circuit, Korea International...
Published: June 15, 2016
In a most unlikely grand prix double-header, the Formula One circus is leaving an unseasonably cold and dreary Montreal behind this week and racing halfway around the world for the more hospitable climes of Baku, Azerbaijan, on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Beginning in 1983, the European Grand Prix was typically used as a way to get around the rule that each country could host only one...
Published: June 13, 2016
MONTREAL — Lewis Hamilton had a question when he arrived for his post-qualifying media session at the Canadian Grand Prix. After taking a quick glance at the television in the Mercedes hospitality unit, where Nico Rosberg and others were watching the England-Russia Euro 2016 match, which was in its 54th scoreless minute, Hamilton said, “How is it possible that England’s not friggin‘...