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Nico Rosberg‘s title chances in 2015 were always going to be built upon his ability to take chances. In a season when Lewis Hamilton, stimulated by his second world-championship triumph in 2014, was bound to be elevated to a new level of performance, engaging in head-to-head battle with his Mercedes team-mate was never a realistic option for Rosberg. Instead, the German needed to focus on his...
Published: June 19, 2015
In the weeks ahead of last season’s Austrian Grand Prix, the first in 11 years, Red Bull held a filming day at the track formerly known as the Osterreichring. The company had spent countless funds and hours in an effort to resurrect a venue previously thought to have been consigned to the dustbin of history and, prior to the first Formula One race at the refurbished Red Bull Ring, they were keen...
Published: June 16, 2015
Having spent so much of his career in the shadows, Nico Hulkenberg finally had a day in the sun last weekend. Less than seven days after finishing eighth for Force India in the Canadian Grand Prix, the German started the Le Mans 24 Hours in the second of a two-race deal with Porsche, the most successful manufacturer in the event’s history. Despite starting the race with the fastest car at his...
Published: June 15, 2015
Nico Hulkenberg has been treated badly by Formula One over the last five years, but the German finally had something to celebrate on Sunday when he won the Le Mans 24 Hours. Hulkenberg, the first active F1 driver to compete at the Circuit de la Sarthe since Sebastien Bourdais drove for Peugeot in 2009, won the race for Porsche alongside Nick Tandy and Earl Bamber, breaking Audi’s dominance at...
Published: June 13, 2015
It was at the midpoint of last season’s British Grand Prix when Lewis Hamilton solidified his status as the modern-day Nigel Mansell. Having been beaten by his Mercedes-team-mate, Nico Rosberg, for three consecutive races, Hamilton’s season slumped to a new low in qualifying, when he effectively decided against taking pole position, aborting his final effort under the misplaced belief that...
Published: June 13, 2015
Fernando Alonso‘s eyes will have lit up when he learned of Felipe Massa and Sebastian Vettel’s demise in qualifying at last weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix. Handicapped by the limitations of McLaren’s MP4-30, the two-time world champion had spent much of his first five races of 2015 racing alone, he and team-mate Jenson Button cut adrift from the pack as their employers troubleshoot...
Published: June 11, 2015
It’s increasingly difficult to defend the standard of Formula One in 2015 after yet another dull race in the Canadian Grand Prix. The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve event can normally be relied upon to produce the most exciting spectacle of a given season, yet last weekend Montreal was reduced to the scene of the latest pole-to-flag win by Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton. Although it isn’t much...
Published: June 9, 2015
Carlos Sainz Jr. may have joined some esteemed names by winning the Formula Renault 3.5 championship in 2014, but little was expected of the Spaniard ahead of his debut season in Formula One. Partnered with highly rated 17-year-old Max Verstappen, Sainz’s task was simply to survive the campaign and ensure his career wasn’t destroyed by the boy wonder. Scuderia Toro Rosso‘s dithering...
Published: June 8, 2015
Fernando Alonso wasn’t going to toe the McLaren-Honda party line forever. The two-time world champion had said all the right things in public—telling the official Formula One website, for instance, how “we are all united” and “committed to this project”—but the frustration of the team’s lack of performance was bound to appear at some point. And that point...
Published: June 8, 2015
With victory in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton extended his lead at the top of the Formula One drivers’ standings to 17 points. The Montreal race marked a return to the top step of the podium for the reigning world champion, who despite hardly putting a foot wrong in Spain and Monaco had been waiting for his fourth win of the campaign since April’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Hamilton’s...