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It was the inevitable question, but the one Fernando Alonso did not want to answer. The two-time world champion was, at last, a free man as he took centre stage in the FIA press conference ahead of the last season’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, having had the news of his departure from Ferrari confirmed that morning. But flanked by Sebastian Vettel, his replacement at the Scuderia, and Jenson Button,...
Published: February 11, 2015
“The Power of Dreams” came close to producing the stuff of nightmares last week as a McLaren-Honda Formula One car returned to the track for the first time in 22 years. The long-awaited renewal of a chassis-engine partnership which delivered one of the truly wondrous periods in F1 history—four constructors’ and drivers’ titles shared between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost...
Published: February 11, 2015
What’s your idea of a perfect Formula One career? For most of us, an ideal career is one that sees a driver start at the bottom with a small team, gradually building their way up to the top, winning countless grands prix and world championships before retiring with plenty of trophies on the mantelpiece and lots of money in the bank. With the sport producing only 32 world champions in its entire...
Published: February 7, 2015
So after months of uncertainty and plenty of defiance, the fight for a return to Formula One finally seems to be over for Marussia. The popular backmarkers, despite entering administration soon after making their last grand prix appearance in Russia last October, had always retained hope of rejoining the grid in 2015, even when there appeared to be no hope at all. Even after the team’s administrators...
Published: February 6, 2015
Last year was a disastrous one for Lotus. After ending 2013 with the second-fastest car in the field, which allowed Romain Grosjean to emerge as the main challenger to Sebastian Vettel in the midst of the German’s record nine-race winning streak, the team effectively crumbled. Kimi Raikkonen, Lotus’ lead driver since 2012, fled to join James Allison—their recently departed technical...
Published: February 4, 2015
The first of three pre-season tests ahead of the new Formula One season has ended at the Circuito de Jerez. The four-day session at the Spanish venue saw the likes of Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel take to the track for the first time as McLaren-Honda and Ferrari drivers, respectively, since their high-profile transfers at the end of last year, while the on-circuit action provided an initial...
Published: February 2, 2015
Need an indication of just how impressive Mercedes’ start to pre-season testing has been? Take a look at the comments emerging from Red Bull Racing and Williams, who finished second and third, respectively, behind the Silver Arrows in the 2014 constructors’ championship after the first day at the Jerez circuit on Sunday. “In general everything is behaving as it should. Obviously we...
Published: January 31, 2015
It began so promisingly as we hovered along the McLaren-Honda MP4/6, the car that took Ayrton Senna, the finest driver in the history of Formula One, to his third and final championship in 1991. The facts and the stats—the 44 grand prix wins, the eight world titles achieved by Senna, Alain Prost and the team—followed as we were invited to get intimate with the Brazilian’s last great...
Published: January 29, 2015
Today (January 29) marks the 65th birthday of Jody Scheckter, the 1979 Formula One world champion. Scheckter, Africa’s only F1 title winner, represented three of the most iconic teams in the sport’s history—McLaren, Tyrrell and Ferrari—in a career spanning nine seasons between 1972 and 1980. In that time, the East London-born driver made a total of 112 grand prix starts, winning...
Published: January 28, 2015
The next chapter of Sebastian Vettel’s Formula One career will officially begin on Friday, 30 Jan., when his first Ferrari car is unveiled. The four-time world champion’s departure from Red Bull Racing, with whom he won four consecutive world championships, came as a surprise when it was announced on the eve of last season’s Japanese Grand Prix, but the notion of Vettel wearing those...