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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: September 7, 2014
For the second Formula One race in succession, Nico Rosberg has ruined our fun. You may, over the last two weeks, have heard about that business in the Belgian Grand Prix, in which the German tried a little too hard to pass Lewis Hamilton on the second lap and ended up puncturing his Mercedes teammate’s tyre. The result? Hamilton’s race was finished before it had even begun—although...
Published: September 6, 2014
It took seven grand prix weekends and almost four months, but Lewis Hamilton has finally secured pole position for a Formula One event. The British driver will start Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix from the No. 1 grid slot, alongside his Mercedes teammate and championship rival, Nico Rosberg, who qualified over two tenths of a second adrift of Hamilton, according to the official Formula One website. For...
Published: September 4, 2014
Since the beginning of the 2009 season, Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing have grown to become one of the most formidable driver-team partnerships in the history of Formula One. The Milton Keynes-based outfit claimed their 50th grand prix win at last month’s Belgian Grand Prix, with Vettel securing 38 of those winners’ trophies. In 2010, the German became the youngest world champion...
Published: September 2, 2014
For someone who is widely regarded as a Formula One world champion in waiting, Nico Hulkenberg has done an awful lot of waiting around. In an era in which teenagers such as Max Verstappen are fast-tracked to the top, Hulkenberg‘s progress has been stopped in its tracks. The German has, in his three-and-a-half seasons of F1, made a career out of dragging relatively average cars toward the...
Published: September 1, 2014
So where will Fernando Alonso be driving next year? Will he stick with Ferrari for a sixth season? Or will his patience at the Prancing Horse finally run out, leading the Spaniard to accept a return to McLaren? Wherever he ends up, it seems Alonso’s future—if it were ever in doubt—is now completely in his hands. As the driver market continues to heat up, two drivers who appear to...
Published: August 31, 2014
Andre Lotterer‘s cameo with the lowly Caterham team at the Belgian Grand Prix was one of the feel-good stories on a weekend of ill-feeling due to the outbreak of war at Mercedes. Little was expected of the German driver when he was formally announced as Kamui Kobayashi’s replacement less than two days ahead of the first free practice session, despite the outfit championing the 32-year-old’s...
Published: August 28, 2014
Since Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren‘s then-team principal, admitted his interest in re-signing Fernando Alonso to Sky Sports’ Pete Gill last year, Formula One’s rumour mill has been dominated by one story. Would Alonso be willing to forget the events of his previous tenure at the Woking team and happily return to an environment that cost him a third consecutive world title in 2007? Would...
Published: August 26, 2014
When McLaren confirmed the signing of Kevin Magnussen last November, it sent the most damning of messages to Sergio Perez. Only 13 months earlier, the Mexican had been anointed as the successor of Lewis Hamilton, the team’s most successful and recognisable driver in recent years and was charged with taking McLaren into a bright new era. After only 17 grand prix weekends, however, the team had...
Published: August 25, 2014
For the second season in succession, the podium ceremony of a Belgian Grand Prix was greeted with boos. But this year it was Nico Rosberg, not Sebastian Vettel (for once), on the receiving end after the Mercedes driver collided with his teammate, Lewis Hamilton, on the second lap of the race. And unlike in 2013, there was no Greenpeace protest to lighten the mood. It is a pity that a venue as iconic,...
Published: August 24, 2014
War has been declared at Mercedes, it seems, after the dramatic clash between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in the early stages of the Belgian Grand Prix. There are shades of the aftermath of the qualifying session for May’s Monaco Grand Prix here, with a divide of opinion over whether Rosberg intentionally wronged his team-mate. According to Hamilton, Rosberg did mean to give him a puncture,...