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After Jules Bianchi‘s life-threatening crash brought a premature end to Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix, it felt strange to think that almost two hours earlier we were all bemoaning first a race start and then later a restart under safety car conditions. Since the 2007 Japanese event at Fuji Speedway—a grand prix held in conditions which made Formula One resemble the America’s...
Published: October 4, 2014
In this season of misery and underachievement for Sebastian Vettel, the announcement could only ever have come at the Japanese Grand Prix. The Suzuka circuit has held so much significance for both the German and his Red Bull Racing team during their rise to prominence in recent years, with the grid’s most formidable driver-team combination scooping four pole positions and four wins in five seasons...
Published: October 2, 2014
“We don’t want to have the spin that the championship was decided because one car let the driver down,” said Toto Wolff, the boss of Mercedes’ motor racing activities, to BBC Sport’s Andrew Benson after last month’s Singapore Grand Prix. The Austrian was speaking with mixed feelings having just witnessed Lewis Hamilton take an ultimately comfortable victory—his...
Published: October 1, 2014
For someone who hasn’t even made his grand prix debut yet, Max Verstappen is causing quite the stir in Formula One. The announcement in August that the 16-year-old Dutchman would replace Jean-Eric Vergne at the Toro Rosso team for the 2015 season was more significant than your average driver announcement—it was a tipping point. The notion that someone could almost instantly swap their...
Published: September 29, 2014
It is often said that when athletes suffer a crushing disappointment, as Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg did when he retired from the Singapore Grand Prix, the best thing they can do is to push it to the back of their mind, forget about it and look ahead. The Silver Arrows, though, have released more information about Rosberg’s struggles at the Marina Bay street circuit, explaining just why the...
Published: September 28, 2014
If at the beginning of the year you had highlighted any number of Formula One drivers with a point to prove in the 2014 season, Sergio Perez would almost certainly have featured in your reckoning. It would not have been an exaggeration to suggest that the Mexican, having suffered the humiliation of being eaten alive and ejected by McLaren after just a solitary campaign with the Woking-based team in...
Published: September 25, 2014
It’s official: Formula One is coming back to the people. The 2014 season has generally produced the most exciting, tense, fight-to-the-flag races in many a year, with the new regulations and the resultant loss of downforce making drivers prone to mistakes. The decision made by Pirelli, the sport’s sole tyre supplier, to stiffen each of their compounds for this year has reeled in those who...
Published: September 23, 2014
Even the most heartless souls in the Formula One paddock must currently feel a degree of sympathy for Jean-Eric Vergne. Last month, Scuderia Toro Rosso, his team of almost three years, became the first outfit to announce their line-up for the 2015 campaign, featuring the most predictable driver change of what has grown to be known as the “silly season.” Vergne‘s place at Toro Rosso,...
Published: September 22, 2014
For the first 10 and a bit races of the 2014 Formula One season, things couldn’t have gone better for Nico Rosberg. The German kicked off the campaign with a dominant win in Australia, before hanging onto the coattails of Lewis Hamilton, his world championship rival, throughout the British driver’s career-best winning streak of four races between the Malaysian and Spanish grands prix. Although...
Published: September 22, 2014
Lewis Hamilton‘s victory in the Singapore Grand Prix has seen the British driver return to the top of the Formula One drivers’ championship for the first time in four months. Despite now having a three-point advantage over Nico Rosberg, his Mercedes teammate and title rival, the 2008 world champion has claimed that he still feels very much like the chaser with only five races of the season...