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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: April 10, 2015
McLaren simply couldn’t continue like that. Across the opening two race weekends of the 2015 Formula One season, the targets were set embarrassingly low for a team which remains one of the most iconic names in world motorsport. Content to tag along at the rear of the field, circulating with no aspiration or purpose, McLaren were a shadow of their former selves. Their drivers, Jenson Button and...
Published: April 9, 2015
Despite retiring from his first race with the team in Malaysia, Fernando Alonso is happy at McLaren. So much so, in fact, that the 2005 and ’06 world champion is intending to see out his career at the Woking-based team, with Alonso, now 33, discussing what life after Formula One may involve ahead of this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix. While Alonso was forced to withdraw from the Sepang race,...
Published: April 8, 2015
After Sebastian Vettel‘s surprise win in Malaysia, there is no shortage of storylines ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix, the third event of the 2015 Formula One season. Having seen their eight-race winning streak come to an end at Sepang, there is a certain degree of pressure on Mercedes heading into this weekend, where the reigning constructors’ champions will be expected to provide an instant...
Published: April 7, 2015
The third round of the 2015 Formula One season, the Chinese Grand Prix, takes place at the Shanghai International Circuit. The track, located on the outskirts of Shanghai, first joined the calendar in 2004 and has been a regular fixture on the schedule since. Initially a late-season event—the track even hosted the final race of the season in 2005—the Chinese GP has held a mid-April slot...
Published: April 4, 2015
If we’re being honest, the 2015 Formula One grid doesn’t contain the most spectacular liveries. Variety and creativity are in short supply, with a host of teams basing their colour schemes around grey and all but two outfits featuring at least a speck of red on their cars. Liveries, throughout the history of F1, have defined a team’s identity and in some cases can define entire eras—think...
Published: April 4, 2015
People power. It’s not a phenomenon you would normally associate with Formula One, a sport which continues to struggle painfully in terms of fan engagement. Embarrassingly late to the social media revolution—an official YouTube channel was launched in December 2005, yet didn’t upload a video for over nine years—and brazenly taking the action from the heartlands of France...
Published: April 3, 2015
For drivers who find themselves frozen out of Formula One, IndyCar is re-emerging as a viable alternative. Since the end of last season, several stars of the 2014 grid have flirted with the American single-seater series, with former Marussia driver Max Chilton helping Carlin’s preparations for a 2016 IndyCar assault, while Simona de Silvestro returned to the championship after her hopes...
Published: April 1, 2015
Although the impact of team radio has been lessened since a partial ban was introduced in mid-2014, pit-to-car messages remain the most insightful aspect of a Formula One race weekend. Not only do these interactions provide clues over how a grand prix will play out in terms of strategy, but team radio offers an understanding of the psyche of drivers as they hurl around a track at 200 miles per hour,...
Published: March 30, 2015
There were contrasting emotions on the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday. While Sebastian Vettel was dizzy with delight having won his first race for Ferrari in just his second appearance for the team, Mercedes and their drivers, reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, were left to wonder how victory slipped from their grasp. Once the emotion of the occasion drained away, however, Vettel...
Published: March 29, 2015
Sebastian Vettel won the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix on a day when Formula One proved its doubters wrong. After reigning constructors’ champions Mercedes controlled the season-opening race in Australia from start to finish, the sport was, as it always seems to be nowadays, in crisis. With one team running away at the front, and with not enough action further back to satisfy even the die-hard...