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Nico Rosberg‘s hopes of winning the 2015 Formula One title effectively ended in Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix, where the Mercedes driver retired after just seven laps due to a mechanical failure. The German’s second retirement in the last four races has left him 73 points behind team-mate Lewis Hamilton with just 100 to play for, and Mercedes boss Toto Wolff—acknowledging for...
Published: October 11, 2015
Lewis Hamilton claimed his ninth win of the 2015 Formula One season in Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom. The reigning world champion started from second on the grid for the second consecutive race, but he soon took the lead after Nico Rosberg, his Mercedes team-mate and championship rival, suffered a technical problem before retiring. Rosberg‘s withdrawal ended the fight...
Published: October 10, 2015
With a mistake under braking at Turn 12, Lewis Hamilton knew the chance had gone and the drought—if we may call it that—was set to continue. Rather than persevering with one more lap, one last chance, the winner of 14 of the last 21 races decided this was a day to accept defeat and settle for second in qualifying. After returning to the pit box to find his clutch bite point, Hamilton was...
Published: October 9, 2015
So where do Red Bull go from here? For the first time since the last of their four title-winning seasons in 2013, it felt as though the team had a plan of action in September when, as reported by Autosport‘s Dieter Rencken and Lawrence Barretto, Red Bull “issued a document requesting a termination” of their nine-year relationship with engine suppliers Renault. Finally set to be freed...
Published: October 6, 2015
In the final moments of qualifying at last year’s Russian Grand Prix, the Sochi Autodrom became a four-corner racetrack in the eyes of Valtteri Bottas. He had been quickest in the first sector and faster than anyone in the second, but it would be those irritating, 90-degree, final four turns of this 18-corner circuit—one to the left, three to the right—that would decide whether Bottas...
Published: October 5, 2015
With five races of the Formula One season remaining, Fernando Alonso believes time is running out for McLaren-Honda to make significant progress in 2015. The team have been handicapped by problems with their V6 turbo power unit throughout the year, scoring points in just three of the 14 races thus far, but they have remained committed to solving those issues. But while he claims McLaren can still extract...
Published: October 3, 2015
The spectre of Singapore continued to hang over Scuderia Toro Rosso as Formula One arrived at Suzuka for last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, but Carlos Sainz Jr was insistent that the past was firmly in the past. Just four days earlier, a team-orders row appeared to break out at the Red Bull B-team after Max Verstappen refused to follow the pit wall’s instructions to gift eighth place...
Published: October 2, 2015
Whether they have competed under the guise of Renault or Lotus, Team Enstone have played an instrumental role in the career of Romain Grosjean. After joining the team as a test driver at the beginning of 2008, the Frenchman made his Formula One debut in mid-2009, only to be dropped after seven races as Renault—on their knees in the aftermath of the “Crashgate” scandal—embarked...
Published: September 29, 2015
In the aftermath of Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso voiced his desire to see the introduction of “private” team-radio messages in Formula One. But by that point, it was too late and the damage had been done. If anything, the two-time world champion’s fierce criticism of McLaren‘s Honda engine at Suzuka proved exactly why pit-to-car radio should...
Published: September 28, 2015
The Japanese Grand Prix began with the paddock expecting Jenson Button to call time on his 16-year career, but it ended with Fernando Alonso’s Formula One future up in the air. The hot potato that is retirement was passed freely around the McLaren-Honda garage at Suzuka, highlighting just how far one of the most sacred teams in the sport’s history have fallen. At various stages over the...