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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: October 22, 2014
What a difference a year makes. Tuesday marked 12 months since Scuderia Toro Rosso announced the signing of somebody called Daniil Kvyat to replace Daniel Ricciardo, who was on his way to world champions Red Bull to succeed Mark Webber, from the 2014 Formula One season. Toro Rosso‘s statement last October was a bolt out of the blue to those who had long expected Antonio Felix da Costa, the highly...
Published: October 20, 2014
Jolyon Palmer joined a select group of drivers over the Russian Grand Prix weekend. With victory in the GP2 feature race at the Sochi Autodrom, the British driver put his name alongside the likes of Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton, Timo Glock, Nico Hulkenberg, Pastor Maldonado and Romain Grosjean as a champion of Formula One’s feeder series. Each of those familiar faces secured a full-time F1 drive...
Published: October 18, 2014
For someone with his back pressed firmly against a brick wall, Fernando Alonso displayed a remarkable amount of confidence on Formula One’s “Shock Saturday” at Suzuka a fortnight ago. The paddock had been taken aback by the news that Sebastian Vettel, the four-time world champion, would be leaving Red Bull Racing at the end of 2014, suddenly leaving Alonso—who, according to...
Published: October 14, 2014
Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen, McLaren’s current drivers, are fighting to save their Formula One futures. With Fernando Alonso, the double world champion, likely to sign a contract to return to the team for 2015—Andrew Benson of BBC Sport has claimed that “it is understood a multi-year deal has been agreed and is waiting to be finalised”—there will be room for only...
Published: October 13, 2014
When the W05 cars of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg crossed the finish line in Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix to take their ninth one-two finish of the 2014 Formula One season, Mercedes were crowned constructors’ champions for the first time in their history. The German manufacturer had raced with considerable success in the mid-1950s—Juan Manuel Fangio, the Argentinian driver, claimed...
Published: October 12, 2014
Lewis Hamilton, first. Nico Rosberg, second. It’s a result that you could have forecast long before the inaugural Russian Grand Prix and certainly after Saturday’s qualifying session, which ended with the former qualifying in pole position ahead of his Mercedes teammate by exactly two-tenths of a second, according to the official Formula One website. But the result, in this season of twists...
Published: October 10, 2014
Formula One cars rarely look mournful, but the sight of the No. 17 MR03 in the Marussia garage at the Sochi Autodrom on Friday painted the most tragic of pictures. The car of Jules Bianchi, the team’s lead driver who suffered life-threatening injuries at Suzuka last weekend, is, according to Marussia‘s official website, “ready to race”—but will not turn a wheel this weekend,...
Published: October 8, 2014
The on-track action paled into insignificance at Suzuka last Saturday as two of the biggest driver switches in the recent history of Formula One edged towards completion. As all eyes were focused on Fernando Alonso, the double world champion, and Ferrari—who, as per Sky Sports’ James Galloway, had agreed to separate after five seasons on Thursday—it emerged that Red Bull and Sebastian...
Published: October 6, 2014
Amid the excitement surrounding Sebastian Vettel’s departure from Red Bull and Fernando Alonso‘s as yet unconfirmed exit from Ferrari to make way for the German, Jenson Button‘s increasingly weak standing at McLaren was something of an afterthought at last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. The 2009 world champion, a McLaren driver since 2010, is likely to be the biggest loser of...
Published: October 6, 2014
After his desperate retirement from the Singapore Grand Prix a fortnight ago, Nico Rosberg‘s title challenge could have gone one of two ways. Having witnessed his 22-point lead turn into a three-point deficit in the space of one race, one evening, the German could have allowed himself to become shrouded in self-pity and surrender to Lewis Hamilton, his Mercedes teammate and championship...