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When, at the end of the 2015 Formula One season, Toto Wolff warned Mercedes would be prepared to change their driver lineup despite retaining the world championship, the team boss sent a clear message to Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. If the drivers were unable to put aside their personal differences for the sake of the team, one of them would lose the honour and privilege of driving the fastest...
Published: June 25, 2016
Having followed in the footsteps of Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton, Nico Hulkenberg and Romain Grosjean by winning the GP2 championship in 2014, there is little doubt that Jolyon Palmer is deserving of a chance in Formula One. Unable to find a race seat in the immediate aftermath of his success in F1’s official feeder category, the British driver took the next-best option and secured a reserve-driver...
Published: June 23, 2016
For the third year in succession, Jenson Button is set to play a lead role in Formula One’s driver market. The 2009 world champion survived two near-misses in 2014 and ’15, but this is likely to be the season Button’s time at McLaren-Honda comes to an end, with the team’s excitement about reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne common knowledge. Should Button lose his seat alongside...
Published: June 21, 2016
After seven races of almost complete radio silence, Formula One finally saw the light in Sunday’s European Grand Prix at the Baku City Circuit. When, at the beginning of 2016, it became apparent the restrictions on pit-to-car radio would become tighter this season, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff told Motorsport.com’s Jonathan Noble how the crackdown would be positive for F1 and lead to a number...
Published: June 20, 2016
With the longest straight and tightest sequence of corners on the calendar, the Baku City Circuit would have left several Formula One drivers feeling uncomfortable on Sunday afternoon, but Nico Rosberg wasn’t one of them. Starting from pole position, the Mercedes driver dominated proceedings to register his fifth victory of the 2016 season before admitting he felt completely at ease with his...
Published: June 19, 2016
Nico Rosberg claimed his fifth victory of the 2016 Formula One season in Sunday’s European Grand Prix at the Baku City Circuit in Azerbaijan. After failing to finish in the top three since his last win in Russia, the German finally returned to the podium after dominating from pole position at F1’s newest track, where Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton could only recover to fifth after a...
Published: June 17, 2016
For the third year in succession, the same old questions were being asked of same old Williams in the aftermath of the Monaco Grand Prix. Their car had performed competently in the early weeks of the season, good enough for the team to be regarded as the best of the rest behind the usual suspects after Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa both scored points in each of the first five races. But when Formula...
Published: June 16, 2016
Formula One is heading to new territory this weekend as the Azerbaijani capital of Baku hosts the European Grand Prix for the first time, but Lewis Hamilton is not exactly enthusiastic about the challenge. The three-time world champion has generally excelled at street circuits throughout his F1 career, but after sampling the Baku City Circuit in the Mercedes simulator, Hamilton has likened the track...
Published: June 14, 2016
The European Grand Prix has returned to the Formula One calendar after a four-year break. But while the event itself is familiar, having first joined the schedule as a standalone race in 1983, the venue and the track is unlike anything the sport has seen before. Almost two years after announcing an agreement to stage a grand prix, the Azerbaijani capital of Baku will welcome Lewis Hamilton and Co....
Published: June 13, 2016
After claiming his second victory of the 2016 Formula One season in the Canadian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton‘s title challenge is very much back on track. Forty-three points behind Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg after the opening five races, the three-time world champion has taken just two rounds to slice that gap to nine. Hamilton admitted he was relieved to cross the finish line at the Circuit...