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Most athletes thrive in a hostile atmosphere. They possess the quality to detach themselves from aggression, to remain immune to the hatred targeted at them—be it face-to-face or via the dark forest of social media—and to turn venom into victory. Footballers, for instance, often discuss how being the subject of spite from opposition supporters only inspires them to perform at a greater...
Published: July 3, 2015
Force India aren’t supposed to do things this way. The plucky little team, with their plucky little car, are meant to get their points on the board at an early stage, taking advantage of any unpredictability at the start of a season to make a head-start before dedicating the second half of a campaign to defending their position. It is a philosophy they have perfected in recent times, equaling...
Published: June 30, 2015
Lewis Hamilton would have been hurting as he departed Silverstone on June 21, 2009. As the reigning world champion at the time, the British Grand Prix should have been his race. It should have been a festival, a celebration of all he had achieved across his opening two seasons in Formula One, which saw him come within a point of becoming the first rookie to win the title in 2007, before claiming the...
Published: June 29, 2015
Christian Horner was a dead man walking. With reports surrounding his future at Red Bull Racing, it seemed his tenure as the boss of the four-times world champions was spluttering to an end in the most ugly, unsavoury fashion after the team’s worst start to a season in several years. Yet the 41-year-old has brought a swift end to the speculation, announcing that he has signed a new deal with...
Published: June 27, 2015
The results over the first eight races of the season may suggest otherwise, but McLaren‘s 2015 car is not as useless as it seems. With its tightly packaged rear-end and a Red Bull-esque front wing, the MP4-30 chassis is a work of art, the most sophisticated to emerge from the team’s Technology Centre for a number of years. According to Motor Sport Magazine‘s Mark Hughes, the car should...
Published: June 27, 2015
We weren’t quite sure what to expect of Felipe Nasr when he was confirmed as a Sauber driver for the 2015 Formula One season. The Brazilian’s presence alone, as a new face in the paddock, was enough to return some interest to Sauber, who had lost all sense of purpose with journeyman Adrian Sutil driving one of their cars in 2014, failing to score a single point for the...
Published: June 26, 2015
The fastest car. The finest driver. The best team principal. Despite the evolution of the sport over the generations—the ever-changing sporting and technical regulations—it is comforting that these three elements, the Holy Trinity, remain the key to victory in Formula One. Just as a football club requires a dependable goalkeeper, a trustworthy defender, at least one solid...
Published: June 23, 2015
It was by no means a classic, but the Austrian Grand Prix was one of the more interesting races of the 2015 Formula One season. Central to that intrigue was an apparent role reversal within the Mercedes garage, as Lewis Hamilton endured one of his least convincing races of recent times while Nico Rosberg, overshadowed by his team-mate for so much of this campaign, produced one of the most assured performances...
Published: June 22, 2015
Kimi Raikkonen is a man under pressure. The 2007 world champion’s latest on-track incident in Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix came at the worst possible time for the Finnish driver, whose Formula One career is now in the balance. But despite the 35-year-old’s lacklustre run of form—he has just one podium finish this season, while team-mate Sebastian Vettel has five—Ferrari...
Published: June 21, 2015
Nico Rosberg’s win in the 2015 Austrian Grand Prix has reignited the Formula One title battle. Rosberg’s success, on an afternoon when Lewis Hamilton, his Mercedes team-mate, failed to convert pole position into victory for the third time this season, has cut the reigning world champion’s lead to just 10 points ahead of next month’s British GP. The Spielberg race was very much...