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Kevin Magnussen was the sacrificial lamb as McLaren welcomed Honda with open arms. But they were anxious to prove he remained what chairman Ron Dennis called “an integral part of our team” and “an excellent prospect for the future,” per McLaren’s official website. Upon the confirmation of their driver lineup for the 2015 Formula One season last December,...
Published: September 11, 2015
This should have been a breakthrough season in the career of Valtteri Bottas. After claiming six podiums over the course of the 2014 campaign, beating world champions Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso to fourth place in the drivers’ standings and establishing himself as Williams‘ most dependable performer, he was ready to take the next step. With Williams’ FW37 chassis retaining...
Published: September 8, 2015
The Italian Grand Prix was a pivotal race in the 2015 Formula One season, with both title protagonists forced to negotiate significant hurdles at the Monza circuit. Mercedes, the reigning constructors’ champions, responded to their problems in the only way they know how: by going even faster. But while Lewis Hamilton was able to take his seventh win of the year and increase his lead in the drivers’...
Published: September 7, 2015
Sebastian Vettel could only manage a second-place finish in Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix, but his celebrations on the podium were reminiscent of a newly crowned world champion. Just two years after being booed and jeered on the Monza podium, the Ferrari fans worshipped Vettel following his first race on Italian soil behind the wheel of a scarlet-red Formula One car. And the adoration shown by...
Published: September 6, 2015
Lewis Hamilton claimed his seventh win of the 2015 Formula One season in Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix at Monza. In years to come, the record books will suggest this was a win like any other, with the reigning world champion converting yet another comfortable pole position into yet another easy victory. But it wasn’t quite as simple as that. It never is simple in F1, of course, and it was...
Published: September 5, 2015
The result, they will argue, speaks for itself. Lewis Hamilton has another pole position, his 11th of the year, and Mercedes have maintained their 100 per cent record in qualifying in the 2015 Formula One season. The team’s decision, as reported by Motorsport.com’s Jonathan Noble, to spend all their remaining engine-development tokens in time for the Italian Grand Prix—giving them...
Published: September 4, 2015
Having made it to the light at the end of the tunnel, Jenson Button knew he had a special car and was on course for a strong season. But just how special, and just how strong? Only three days after confirming their participation in the 2009 Formula One campaign, the remains of the Honda team, Brawn GP, joined their fellow competitors at the Circuit de Catalunya for some much-needed...
Published: September 1, 2015
Even Il Grande John couldn’t keep them quiet. John Surtees waved both horizontally and vertically, spoke a few words of Italian and, after realising he was fighting a losing battle, kept a dignified silence, giving them all the time they needed to get the poison out of their collective system. But the good intentions of Formula One’s perfect gentleman only served to worsen the situation. Sebastian...
Published: August 31, 2015
On the eve of the Belgian Grand Prix, Ferrari announced that Kimi Raikkonen would remain with the team for the 2016 Formula One season. The team’s decision to retain the 2007 world champion, despite his generally substandard performances alongside Sebastian Vettel over the first 10 races of 2015, came as a shock when Ferrari seemed to have an array of options for next year. But despite some suggesting...
Published: August 28, 2015
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Or so the saying goes. Though the final months of 2014 were by far the most demeaning of Jenson Button‘s entire Formula One career, a 15-year tale featuring as many setbacks as successes, it seems that period taught him the most valuable and instructive of lessons. As he persuaded McLaren to choose him, and not rookie team-mate Kevin Magnussen,...