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Mercedes’ dominant 2014 season had been in the pipeline long before the W05 car hit the track. The Silver Arrows had highlighted this year—and all the regulation changes that came with it—as the year to emerge as Formula One’s leading force. The marquee signing of Lewis Hamilton in 2012 as well as the arrivals of Toto Wolff and Paddy Lowe in 2013 were all part of a process of...
Published: August 7, 2014
Despite the arrival of so-called “pay drivers” in recent years, Formula One’s talent pool is arguably richer than it has ever been this season. The 2014 grid contains five world champions—Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button—who have a grand total of nine titles between them. But there are plenty of drivers who are world...
Published: August 5, 2014
Formula One’s 2014 driver market is, rather disappointingly, likely to be among the most subdued in recent history. The grid’s major stars are all under contract and seemingly content to hold station until the new turbocharged era has settled down, waiting to see where their team truly ranks in the competitive order before finding an escape route in time for 2016. Even those actively seeking...
Published: August 4, 2014
Kimi Raikkonen’s dismal 2014 performances have led to some suspicions that the 2007 world champion, among the most popular drivers on the grid, is losing his powers. Raikkonen, after all, is now 34, the age that the majority of athletes begin to recognise their standards slipping, with achievements that once seemed so easy becoming increasingly difficult. The Ferrari driver, however, has rubbished...
Published: August 3, 2014
There is little doubt that the first half of the 2014 Formula One season has been exciting—but not in the conventional sense. The early stages of this year have not been a repeat of the free-for-all we saw at the beginning of 2012, for instance, when any number of drivers arrived at the circuit targeting the race victory. Instead, the real thrill of 2014 has been found in the assumption that...
Published: August 2, 2014
Time for a quick word association game: What pops into your head when you think of Ferrari? Do you picture the tifosi, with their red caps and flags, standing proudly on the spectator banking of the world’s Formula One circuits? Do you imagine the podium at Monza, gleaming in the September sunshine, surrounded by thousands of track invaders? Perhaps the very mention of Ferrari takes you back...
Published: July 31, 2014
Should sport and politics ever mix? It’s a question that is asked perhaps too often—and its answer largely depends on the sport in question. For Formula One, a sport that sees many of its bureaucrats gain more recognition than some of its participants, a blend of the two worlds—so different yet so eerily alike—is inevitable. F1’s great political debate of 2014 surrounds...
Published: July 28, 2014
Daniel Ricciardo has exceeded expectations so far this season, winning two races and cementing his position in a Red Bull team previously built around four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel. His latest victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix has seen the Australian’s confidence rise through the roof, with Ricciardo aiming to steal the world championship from under the noses of Nico Rosberg...
Published: July 27, 2014
The 2014 title battle between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, the Mercedes drivers, has officially turned nasty. After the suspicions, claims and counter-claims surrounding Rosberg‘s off-track excursion in the dying seconds of qualifying for May’s Monaco Grand Prix, the first real sign of inter-team dynamics turning sour at Mercedes, things became a little more blatant during Sunday’s...
Published: July 26, 2014
The qualifying gods, it is fair to assume, have something against Lewis Hamilton at the moment. After a scintillating start to the season which saw the Mercedes driver record four pole positions in the opening five races, the 2008 world champion has recently been unable to catch a break in his battle with Nico Rosberg, his teammate. The momentum, despite a well-timed win on home soil at Silverstone...