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One of the most iconic names in the history of Formula One, McLaren-Honda were brought to their knees over the course of the 2015 season. A team synonymous with grand prix victories and title triumphs with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost could barely force their way into the top 10 for much of the year as the careers of Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button paled into insignificance. Button, however, is confident...
Published: December 29, 2015
Where does Nico Rosberg rank among the best drivers on the current Formula One grid? If we are to presume that Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso make up the Holy Trinity, and the likes of Max Verstappen, Daniel Ricciardo, Valtteri Bottas, Jenson Button and Romain Grosjean are all scattered somewhere behind them, where exactly does Rosberg fit in? The problem is that, in the eyes...
Published: December 28, 2015
Sergio Perez enjoyed his most productive Formula One season to date in 2015. After a scruffy start, perhaps borne of frustration as he and team-mate Nico Hulkenberg waited around for Force India’s B-specification car, the Mexican emerged as one of the most consistent performers on the grid, claiming a number of solid results and a podium finish in the Russian Grand Prix. Those points were crucial...
Published: December 26, 2015
The chain has been broken and an era has come to a premature, avoidable end. The conclusion of the BBC’s television coverage of Formula One appeared increasingly likely when presenter Suzi Perry signed off the 2015 season by saying she would “hopefully” see us next year. And it became inevitable when, per the Times‘ Kevin Eason, a bunch of the Beeb’s executives marched...
Published: December 24, 2015
After securing his third world championship, Lewis Hamilton provided his Mercedes team with a headache in the closing races of the 2015 Formula One season. As his form mysteriously evaporated and team-mate Nico Rosberg embarked upon a run of three consecutive victories, Hamilton required careful management from his Mercedes colleagues as he frequently challenged the team’s strategy calls in Mexico,...
Published: December 22, 2015
‘Tis the season to be jolly, and for Lewis Hamilton, Christmas 2015 will be a particularly cheerful occasion. As the most successful year of his Formula One career draws to a close, Hamilton, now with 43 grand prix victories and three world championships to his name, is at peace with the knowledge his life’s work—matching the records of his boyhood idol Ayrton Senna—is...
Published: December 21, 2015
Nico Rosberg has competed for Mercedes ever since the German manufacturer returned to the Formula One grid at the beginning of 2010. But loyalty, as he may find out in the coming months, counts for very little in this sport. Rosberg has played an instrumental role in Mercedes’ rise to prominence in recent seasons, yet team boss Toto Wolff has challenged the German to earn a new contract by proving...
Published: December 19, 2015
Formula One team bosses are the motor-racing equivalent of football managers. It is mostly left to the drivers, the stars of the show, to receive plaudits when a team performs strongly and claims podiums, grand prix victories and world championships. But when results are hard to come by? It is almost always the fault of the team principal, who often pay the price of failure with their job, even if...
Published: December 17, 2015
Max Verstappen “will be (in) a world championship-winning team before he is 20,” mused Martin Brundle, the former grand prix driver, as the teenager announced his arrival in Formula One in the early weeks of 2015, per Sky Sports’ James Galloway. As he compared the youngster, competing in just his third F1 race, to the likes of Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher—among the greatest...
Published: December 15, 2015
With Nico Hulkenberg’s sixth-place finish, Force India secured fifth spot, their best-ever result in the Formula One constructors’ standings, at November’s Brazilian Grand Prix. But any celebrations, at least those of the public variety, were kept to a minimum at Interlagos. Rather than gathering the entire team, from the drivers to the cleaners, at the front of the garage...