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On the evidence of his first year of Formula One in 2015, Max Verstappen isn’t the type to hang around. The teenager established himself as one of the stars of last season by completing a range of stunning overtaking manouevres—passing Felipe Nasr around the outside of Blanchimont in the Belgian Grand Prix, for instance, and muscling past Sergio Perez in Brazil. And Verstappen is eager...
Published: March 8, 2016
The logic at Williams was as reasoned and sensible as ever. As they became the first team to launch their 2016 Formula One car ahead of the first of two pre-season tests at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in February, Pat Symonds revealed the thinking that resulted in the birth of the new FW38. Rather than discussing anything from the revised suspension geometry to the new, curved sidepod inlets,...
Published: March 7, 2016
Fernando Alonso is widely regarded as the biggest fighter in Formula One. Those fights have caused him more harm than good on occasion, but it would be far more worrying if that fight—that desire, that passion—were to be somehow extinguished. The two-time world champion has admitted his fight was severely tested during McLaren-Honda’s woeful 2015 campaign, but Alonso has insisted...
Published: March 5, 2016
Formula One’s pre-season program came to an end on Friday, when the second of two tests concluded at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. For eight days, the teams and drivers have pounded around the home of the Spanish Grand Prix aiming to give themselves the best chance of starting the 2016 season on a high. With the number of tests reduced from three to two this year, the second test was arguably...
Published: March 3, 2016
Are we looking at the future of Formula One? That was the question in Spain at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya paddock on Thursday morning as Ferrari conducted an initial evaluation of the “halo” concept, which is set to be fitted to every car in time for the 2017 season in an effort to improve cockpit safety. The halo is regarded as an unwanted, imperfect, but necessary solution to...
Published: March 1, 2016
It was always bound to be a matter of time, a question of when. Mercedes have operated under the radar for much of Formula One testing, allowing their rivals to pursue fast times as the two-time world champions—safe in the knowledge they are fast enough—worked on making their W07 car reliable enough. But shortly before lunch on the opening day of the second and final test at the Circuit...
Published: February 29, 2016
And then there were 11. On Monday, Sauber became the final team to reveal their 2016 Formula One car, just in time for the second and final pre-season test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The Swiss team recovered well from a pointless 2014 to finish eighth in the 2015 constructors’ championship, claiming a couple of surprise results along the way. And following the launch of the Ferrari-powered...
Published: February 27, 2016
Say what you like about Bernie Ecclestone—many often have and many always will—but Formula One’s ringmaster certainly knows how to get things done. Little more than 48 hours after Mr. E hinted that changes to qualifying were on the horizon, per MailOnline’s Jonathan McEvoy, as well as discussing matters from the state of his sport to funeral plans—”They...
Published: February 25, 2016
Kimi Raikkonen made his first appearance of the 2016 Formula One pre-season on Wednesday, taking to the wheel of Ferrari’s SF16-H car. After team-mate Sebastian Vettel completed 195 laps on the opening two days at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, it felt as though all Ferrari’s bad luck, as ever, was reserved for Raikkonen, who didn’t appear on track until the final stages of the...
Published: February 23, 2016
No fewer than eight teams passed the 100-lap mark on Day 2 of the first 2016 Formula One pre-season test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Tuesday. Among them, thankfully, were McLaren-Honda, who finally appear to be making reasonable progress after enduring their worst season during 2015 in 35 years. The team’s lack of competitiveness saw Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button score just 27...