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The 16th round of the 2016 Formula One season will take place at this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix at the Sepang International Circuit, where Mercedes can claim a third consecutive constructors’ world championship. The Silver Arrows have enjoyed their strongest season yet in 2016, with Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton winning all but one race between them. As reported by ESPN F1’s...
Published: September 26, 2016
Carlos Sainz Jr. signed a contract to remain with Toro Rosso shortly before this season’s Austrian Grand Prix, but the questions surrounding his Formula One future are yet to stop. Talk of a potential swap deal with Renault, which would see the Red Bull B-team trade one of the most exciting talents on the grid for a cheaper engine supply in 2017, has polluted the paddock since Silverstone. And...
Published: September 24, 2016
The five red lights went out and Valtteri Bottas leaped off the line, instantly nudging ahead of Daniel Ricciardo’s Red Bull and sidestepping Kimi Raikkonen’s slow-starting Ferrari. As he sped past the piece of track reserved for the sister Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel, whose engine failure on the formation lap left him unable to start a race for the first time in his Formula One career,...
Published: September 22, 2016
After being scarred by bold promises and overambitious targets, McLaren-Honda are finally beginning to deliver in Formula One. Fernando Alonso‘s seventh-place finish in the Singapore Grand Prix means the team have now scored double the amount of points they managed to scratch together during their worst season in 35 years in 2015. For a partnership that dominated the sport in the 1980s and ’90s,...
Published: September 20, 2016
For 45 laps, the Singapore Grand Prix was arguably the most forgettable race of the 2016 Formula One season. The Marina Bay Street Circuit, as ever, looked immaculate under the lights, but there was little substance to complement the style until—in an effort to get their world champion on the podium—Mercedes decided to switch Lewis Hamilton onto a three-stop strategy. Hamilton’s unexpected...
Published: September 19, 2016
As he celebrated his 200th Formula One appearance, Nico Rosberg claimed the best victory of his career in Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix. The German sealed a comprehensive pole position at the Marina Bay track on Saturday and led comfortably for much of the race, but Daniel Ricciardo‘s sudden pit stop just 14 laps from the chequered flag dragged Rosberg into a fight he didn’t want. With...
Published: September 18, 2016
Nico Rosberg claimed his eighth victory of the 2016 Formula One season in Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. The Mercedes driver produced a stunning lap in qualifying to secure a comfortable pole position and was flawless at the front during the race, withstanding a late charge from Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo to retake the lead of the drivers’ championship. Joining...
Published: September 16, 2016
Jenson Button finished a lapped 14th in the 2016 season-opening Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park, but far more important for him was the result on the other side of the McLaren-Honda garage. Fernando Alonso‘s collision with the Haas of Esteban Gutierrez on Lap 17, which saw the Spaniard slam into the outside wall of Turn 3 before rolling repeatedly in the gravel trap, had ensured the...
Published: September 15, 2016
The 15th round of the 2016 Formula One season, the Singapore Grand Prix, will be the big test for Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. The Silver Arrows have dominated F1 for the last three seasons, but the team and drivers were utterly humiliated at the Marina Bay street circuit in 2015, when Hamilton was 1.5 seconds adrift of pole position as Mercedes were ambushed by Ferrari and Red Bull. Even...
Published: September 13, 2016
The 15th round of the 2016 Formula One season will take place at this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix at the Marina Bay street circuit, where the Red Bull boys are ready to run riot. Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have dominated F1 for much of the last three seasons, but the Singapore GP promises to be the most unpredictable weekend for some time, with no fewer than three teams...