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Last week, a 21-race calendar was revealed ahead of the 2015 Formula One season. It featured each of the events that took place during the 2014 campaign as well as two “new” additions: Mexico, returning to the calendar for the first time since 1992, and, curiously, Korea. The Korean Grand Prix was previously a presence on the schedule between 2010 and ’13, when the Yeongam track fell...
Published: December 5, 2014
In winning last month’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton secured his second Formula One championship. Soon after crossing the line under the lights of the Yas Marina Circuit, the 29-year-old stopped his car to pick up a British flag from a track marshal, which he waved all the way back to parc ferme and seemed to hold on to until dawn broke. Hamilton’s success, for him, appeared to...
Published: December 3, 2014
After six seasons, four world championships, bundles of pole positions and race wins and plenty of broken records, Sebastian Vettel completed his final race for Red Bull Racing at last month’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Less than a week after one of the most dominant driver-team partnerships in Formula One history was brought to an end, the German was found at the Fiorano circuit in Italy,...
Published: December 2, 2014
If you were to ask a group of Formula One enthusiasts what they enjoy most about the sport, their answers will vary. Some may like it when their favourite driver wins, while others—usually the shallower ones—might admit that they take pleasure in watching the cars crash and collide. They will all, though, enjoy the sight of hard, fair racing. Not only is overtaking a true test of a driver’s...
Published: December 1, 2014
In the years to come, the history books will suggest that the 2014 Formula One season was one to forget. The runaway constructors’ champions, Mercedes, won all but three of the 19 races, with Lewis Hamilton claiming 11 grand prix victories as he took his second drivers’ world title. Yet those figures are misleading, hiding the true tale behind F1’s season of change. The fight at the...
Published: November 28, 2014
The 2014 Formula One season was one of the most exciting, tense campaigns in recent memory—but one could never describe it as unpredictable. In the end, only two teams and three drivers—Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, and Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo—took to the top step of the podium, with the remaining outfits forming an orderly queue behind. Although the racing...
Published: November 26, 2014
Forget Lewis Hamilton versus Nico Rosberg at Mercedes. And, for that matter, forget the battle of the Red Bulls between Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo. Prior to the 2014 Formula One season, there was only one inter-team scrap worth watching—one that truly whetted the appetite. The presence of Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen in those hallowed scarlet-red cars made Ferrari‘s driver...
Published: November 25, 2014
In the end, Lewis Hamilton won the 2014 Formula One World Championship with ease. A run of six wins in the final seven races of the season in a period which saw Nico Rosberg, his Mercedes team-mate and title rival, suffer two crippling mechanical problems, allowed the British driver to claim his second title by a margin of 67 points. Rosberg‘s cruel luck—which led to him retiring from...
Published: November 24, 2014
It was on Lap 45 of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that Nico Rosberg knew the game was up. The previous lap, the German—hindered by a motor generator unit failure which left him significantly short of engine power—had asked his race engineer, Tony Ross, to predict his finishing position as he desperately tried to keep his championship hopes alive. Ross reassured his driver that fifth place—the...
Published: November 23, 2014
The King is dead, long live the King. After a four-year period which had seen Sebastian Vettel conquer all before him, the throne, the No. 1 car and all the glory that comes with it has been inherited by Lewis Hamilton, who secured his second world championship with victory in Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. In the days prior to the race at the Yas Marina circuit, the British driver had walked...