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Not since the days of Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost has Formula One seen such a bitter rivalry between two team-mates. Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg started the year on good terms. Childhood friends and close neighbours in the principality of Monaco, they had already spent a year as team-mates without any significant issues. Hamilton even revealed to Formula1.com earlier in the year that he’d...
Published: September 15, 2014
Formula One’s oldest and most successful team had their worst home race since 2005 at the 2014 Italian Grand Prix. But while Ferrari were toiling, Mercedes returned to the top step of the podium, ending Daniel Ricciardo and Red Bull’s winning streak. The two Williams drivers finished third and fourth to secure a valuable 27 points. They now sit third in the constructors’ championship,...
Published: September 12, 2014
Formula One will welcome the Haas F1 Team to the grid at the start of the 2016 season. Owned by multi-millionaire businessman and NASCAR team owner Gene Haas, they will be the first American constructor for over 30 years. Haas have come under closer scrutiny than any other new team in recent years, mostly because Gene Haas has been very vocal about wanting to approach the sport and go about things...
Published: September 12, 2014
Formula One team will be banned from giving advice and information to their drivers from the Singapore Grand Prix onwards. The FIA will now strictly enforce Article 20.1 of the F1 Sporting Regulations, which state the driver should operate the car “alone and unaided.” Elsewhere, two teenagers have taken a step closer to making their full F1 debuts. Max Verstappen completed his first full...
Published: September 10, 2014
McLaren are a team in crisis. Having ended 2012 with one of the quickest cars on the grid, they lost star driver Lewis Hamilton to Mercedes. Left without a truly top-level racer, they abandoned most of the core features of the 2012 car and tried to go radical for 2013. The result was the difficult MP4-28 and a long, miserable season which saw the team fail to score a podium for the first time since...
Published: September 10, 2014
Luca di Montezemolo has announced he will leave his position as President of Ferrari, bringing to an end weeks of speculation over his future. In a statement on the team website, Montezemolo said: Ferrari will have an important role to play within the FCA [Fiat Chrysler Automobiles] Group in the upcoming flotation on Wall Street. This will open up a new and different phase which I feel should be spearheaded...
Published: September 9, 2014
When Lewis Hamilton crossed the line to win the Italian Grand Prix, the bookmakers immediately responded by re-installing the Brit as favourite for the 2014 Formula One Drivers’ Championship. The best available price on Hamilton is 10-11. Team-mate Nico Rosberg, who holds a 22-point lead in the title race with only six races to go, has returned to “underdog” status. His best odds...
Published: September 8, 2014
Coming immediately after the controversial and exciting race in Belgium, Formula One’s 2014 Italian Grand Prix had a lot to live up to. It certainly delivered, with a host of drivers putting in excellent performances. Lewis Hamilton was on top all weekend. After pressuring team-mate Nico Rosberg into an error, the Brit recorded a hat-trick of pole, race win and fastest lap. Behind the two Mercedes,...
Published: September 5, 2014
The Italian Grand Prix is the final race of Formula One’s “European season,” and therefore a good place to make big announcements. If rumours are to be believed, we’ll see a huge one this weekend. Reports suggest Luca di Montezemolo is set to leave his position as president of Ferrari, bringing to an end his 23-year reign. At the silver end of the pit lane, wheels may have been...
Published: September 4, 2014
Monza’s beautiful Parabolica enters a new era this weekend at the Italian Grand Prix. Stripped of part of its gravel trap, Parabolica is now a “modern” corner, complete with a sterile tarmac run-off area and gleaming strip of astroturf. Never again will we see those famous plumes of dust being kicked up on the outside. But though the challenge and risk of Parabolica have been diminished...