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In 2014, Nico Rosberg headed to Europe while looking like a beaten man to all the world. Despite inheriting a win at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, which gave him a strong initial lead in the drivers’ standings, the German had been comprehensively outperformed by Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton across the first four race weekends of the year. Hamilton bounced back from his early...
Published: May 8, 2015
Formula One teams have around 27 million reasons to employ Pastor Maldonado, but even those have little justification after the opening four races of the 2015 season. That—$27 million—is the price he (or rather, PDVSA, his personal sponsor) pays for the pleasure of driving for Lotus in the pinnacle of motorsport, according to Autosport‘s Ian Parkes. And it is clear who gets the better...
Published: May 7, 2015
Kimi Raikkonen isn’t like the rest of them. You wouldn’t catch him recording question-and-answer videos on the evening after a Formula One race, and you’d rarely find him alongside the rich and famous on the red carpet. No, what you see with Raikkonen is exactly what you get; Kimi is, you know, just Kimi. And he’s also an incredibly talented racing driver. Since making his F1...
Published: May 4, 2015
After entering their new era with the same old colours, it seems as though McLaren are ready to succumb to public opinion and change their 2015 livery. But which colours will the Honda-powered MP4-30 adopt from this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix? An initial report suggested the new paint job won’t be a significant departure from the current one, but McLaren have produced what seems like...
Published: May 2, 2015
The Spanish Grand Prix is among the most important events of the year for Formula One teams. Not only does the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya race represent a return to action after a three-week break, it offers the teams a chance to build upon what they learned from the opening phase of the season. Having spent the best part of a month reflecting and analysing their performances at the flyaway races...
Published: May 2, 2015
So what would you ask Fernando Alonso? There would certainly be no shortage of questions to put to a two-time world champion, a driver who, for the best part of a decade, has been regarded as the most complete performer on the Formula One grid. Since making his debut for Minardi in 2001, the Spaniard has seen it all. He’s experienced how lonely life can be at the back of the grid, he’s...
Published: May 1, 2015
On 1 May 1994, Ayrton Senna was killed at the San Marino Grand Prix when his car left the road at Imola’s high-speed Tamburello curve and struck a concrete wall. Although the true cause of the accident remains a mystery to this very day, what cannot be denied is that the three-time world champion’s demise was the single most significant moment in the history of Formula One. Senna, in life...
Published: April 30, 2015
The McLaren MP4/4 is the greatest car in the history of grand prix racing. Driven by Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost over the course of the 1988 Formula One season, the first Honda-powered McLaren, designed by Steve Nichols and Gordon Murray, secured 15 wins and pole positions in 16 races. It was behind the wheel of the MP4/4 that Senna delivered arguably the greatest lap in F1 history in qualifying for...
Published: April 28, 2015
When it was finally confirmed in March that the German Grand Prix was to be cut from the 2015 Formula One calendar, fans likely reacted in one of two possible ways. The first, and most widespread, reaction would have been one of despair. Despair that a mainstay on the schedule since 1960 had vanished. Despair that in an era of a four-time world champion from Heppenheim, a Wiesbaden-born title challenger...
Published: April 26, 2015
Formula One is at its best when two drivers fight head-to-head, even more so when those drivers battle within the confines of the same team. Unlike most other sports, in which team-mates work together and establish a mutual understanding to achieve collective success, Formula One drivers are out for themselves and their team-mates are the first, if not the only, obstacle to personal triumph. This concept—the...