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“Around £250,000” was the price Jolyon Palmer paid for each of his 13 free-practice appearances over the course of the 2015 Formula One season, according to the Telegraph‘s Daniel Johnson. When the British driver was announced as one of Renault’s race drivers for 2016 last October, that £3.25 million—in addition to any extra funds he provided to...
Published: March 24, 2016
Jock Clear only started work with Ferrari at the beginning of the year, but the highly experienced engineer has already seen enough to understand why Sebastian Vettel is among the most successful drivers in modern-day Formula One. Vettel’s third-place finish at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix means he has claimed 14 podiums in his first 20 races as a Ferrari driver, but Clear has claimed...
Published: March 22, 2016
Formula One’s restrictions on team radio have been increased in the 2016 season, but ahead of the Australian Grand Prix, FIA race director Charlie Whiting reassured the sport’s followers that “the juicy content” will still be aired. As Whiting told the official F1 website, that content includes everything “people like to hear”—drivers calling one another...
Published: March 21, 2016
Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz Jr. formed one of the most exciting, dynamic partnerships in Formula One in 2015, but it has only taken one race of the new season for civil war to break out at Scuderia Toro Rosso. Verstappen appeared to be on course to equal or even surpass his career-best finish during the first phase of the Australian Grand Prix, but his afternoon quickly “went downhill,”...
Published: March 20, 2016
Nico Rosberg began the new Formula One season in the same fashion he ended the last by claiming victory in Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix at the Albert Park circuit. The German and team-mate Lewis Hamilton, the reigning world champion, recovered from poor starts to claim Mercedes’ 33rd win in the last two years, but the Silver Arrows’ latest victory was one of their most hard-fought...
Published: March 19, 2016
Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg may have secured yet another front-row lockout in Formula One qualifying, but the end result was overshadowed by the process in the newly bespectacled eyes of their boss. “Rubbish,” was how head of Mercedes motorsport Toto Wolff felt about the new qualifying format, used for the first time at this weekend’s season-opening Australian Grand...
Published: March 17, 2016
Since the beginning of the 2015 Formula One season, though the evidence has suggested otherwise, Fernando Alonso has insisted his decision to leave Ferrari for McLaren-Honda was the right one. Even when Sebastian Vettel was winning grands prix in assured fashion and threatening the all-conquering Mercedes cars of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, Alonso was convinced it was he, not his rival, who...
Published: March 15, 2016
After almost four months of waiting, the 2016 Formula One season will kick off at this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park. Having dominated for the last two years, Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg are expected to face a stern challenge from Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen in what will be the longest season in F1 history with 21 races. As the reigning...
Published: March 14, 2016
With Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari lurking dangerously in their rear-view mirrors, Mercedes wouldn’t be blamed for enforcing stricter team orders on Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in the 2016 Formula One season. Having enjoyed a comfortable advantage over the rest of the field since 2014, the Silver Arrows have allowed Hamilton and Rosberg to race without any real fear of the consequences. But...
Published: March 12, 2016
By Christmas Eve, Pascal Wehrlein was not expecting any extra-special gifts to come his way. The momentum that surrounded the 21-year-old following his victory in the DTM (German touring car) series, a championship he claimed with near-perfect timing following the Manor Formula One team’s confirmed switch to Mercedes engines last October, was fading rapidly. At a time Will Stevens told Motorsport.com’s...