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When it comes to drivers upping their game for their home race, few on the current grid can match Felipe Massa. While world champions such as Lewis Hamilton, who in July told the Daily Mail‘s Jonathan McEvoy that the local fans “spurred me on” to victory in the British Grand Prix, and Fernando Alonso, who after his third win on home turf last year told Ferrari‘s official website...
Published: November 4, 2014
The United States Grand Prix was always bound to be one of the most difficult weekends of the year, in this year of difficult weekends, for Sebastian Vettel. At most other races in 2014, the four-time world champion has arrived at a track with at least a degree of hope. A hope that this will be the weekend that he turns his season around. A hope that this will be the weekend that he gives Daniel Ricciardo,...
Published: November 3, 2014
The absence of Marussia and, to a lesser extent, Caterham from the United States Grand Prix and Brazilian Grand Prix weekends has left Sauber with something of an open goal. It is true that the loss of the perennial backmarkers has left the Swiss-based team, who were regular podium contenders just two years ago, at the rear of an 18-car field on pure pace. However, their view of the top 10, the points-paying...
Published: November 3, 2014
Race day at the United States Grand Prix marked exactly six years since Lewis Hamilton became the youngest-ever world champion in the history of Formula One. The event held on November 2, 2008, at the Interlagos circuit in Brazil, the final round of that particular season, was arguably the most dramatic grand prix that the sport has ever seen, with the British driver—competing in just his second...
Published: November 1, 2014
In his two previous visits to the Circuit of the Americas, the latest home of the United States Grand Prix, Nico Rosberg failed to even qualify within the top 10. The German finished bottom of the Q2 time sheets for the 2012 event in 17th, 11 places adrift of his then-Mercedes teammate, Michael Schumacher, who by that time was—approaching his 44th birthday—just two races away from retirement. It...
Published: October 29, 2014
The teams remain on life support, but the postmortems have already started. The final two rows on the Formula One grid have been wiped clean over the last week, with the news that first Caterham and then Marussia had entered administration. Bernie Ecclestone, F1’s ringmaster, told Reuters’ Alan Baldwin that, as a consequence, neither team would be present at this weekend’s United...
Published: October 28, 2014
The Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, will this weekend host the United States Grand Prix, the 17th round of the 2014 Formula One season. The venue has been a presence on the F1 calendar since 2012 and has very quickly become one of the most iconic tracks in the sport, presenting a challenge for drivers, a conundrum for teams and producing an exciting spectacle for onlookers. Despite its obvious...
Published: October 25, 2014
For their opening three seasons in Formula One, Caterham looked like the only credible motor racing operation among the three “new teams.” While HRT, the Spanish outfit, were always heading towards extinction and Virgin, who would later become Marussia, encountered a number of calamities—the most notable of which saw the team participate with a fuel tank that was too small to reach...
Published: October 24, 2014
If Fernando Alonso does decide to return to McLaren for the 2015 Formula One season, the team will either call time on Jenson Button’s career or cut short the experiment with Kevin Magnussen. Although the logical decision would arguably be to invest time in developing the next generation, Button, the most experienced driver on the current grid, has argued that his good record alongside fellow...
Published: October 24, 2014
The Circuit of the Americas has hosted only two races since becoming the latest home of the United States Grand Prix in 2012, but has already emerged as a firm favourite among drivers and fans. The track, arguably the finest produced by architect Hermann Tilke, is defined by several elevation changes, which should make it the ideal setting for the latest chapter of the roller-coaster ride that is the...