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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: June 8, 2016
Just four weeks after the European leg of the season started in Spain, Formula One is heading to North America for a very quick detour. This weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix will mark the beginning of a hectic period of six races in the space of eight weeks as the pinnacle of motorsport charges toward the midpoint of the 2016 campaign. The event, held at Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for the best part of four decades, is widely regarded as one of the highlights of a given season, with a scenic, simple track usually providing thrilling on-track action and surprise results. Read on...
Published: June 7, 2016
The seventh round of the 2016 Formula One season will take place at this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, where Lewis Hamilton is set to continue his pursuit of Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg. Rosberg established a comfortable early lead in the drivers’ standings after winning each of the first four races, but after the pair collided on the opening lap of the Spanish GP, Hamilton registered his first victory in seven months in Monaco. Forty-three points adrift of his title rival ahead of the Monte Carlo race, Hamilton is now just 24 points behind as he arrives in Montreal’s Circuit...
Published: June 6, 2016
Despite being the only driver to score a point in each of the first six races of the 2016 Formula One season, Felipe Massa may find himself without a seat at the end of this year. After being released by Ferrari almost three years ago, the Brazilian has successfully reinvented himself at Williams, becoming a valuable asset to a team who finished third in the constructors’ championship in 2014 and ’15. With Williams now a stable upper-midfield outfit, there is a feeling that the team may require a more fashionable driver to truly progress to the next level and ultimately recapture their...
Published: June 5, 2016
By now, you’ve read all about Alexander Rossi’s victory at the 100th Indianapolis 500. After a lifetime of trying—and briefly succeeding—to break into Formula One, the 24-year-old Californian sputtered over the finish line in his first try at America’s most famous race. During the inevitable media storm that followed his Indy win, Rossi was asked several times about his F1 ambitions. “I’m not even thinking about F1,” he told ESPN F1’s Nate Saunders. “I’ve not even been able to think about the race I have this weekend, so I’ve...
Published: June 4, 2016
Will Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button, after two years of dodging bullets, retire from Formula One at the end of this season? Could Nico Rosberg, a servant of Mercedes for so long, become one of the Silver Arrows’ main opponents by joining Sebastian Vettel at Ferrari? Might Daniel Ricciardo recognise the warning signs and plot his way out of Red Bull Racing before Max Mania overwhelms him? What next for Carlos Sainz Jr.? Will McLaren-Honda be bold enough to reward Stoffel Vandoorne with a full-time seat following his impressive cameo in Bahrain? Will Williams feel the need to freshen up their...
Published: June 2, 2016
With six grands prix completed, Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari remain without a win in the 2016 Formula One season. Sitting a distant fifth in the drivers’ standings—more than 40 points behind the leader, Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg—the 28-year-old is unlikely to add to his four world championships at the end of this year. But Vettel has defended the Prancing Horse’s start to the campaign and explained why he believes Ferrari are the most ambitious team in F1. The German was denied a fourth podium appearance of the season at the recent Monaco Grand Prix, where he was pipped...
Published: June 1, 2016
In the third season of Formula One’s V6 hybrid engine era, fans are finally being treated to a taste of the long-promised performance convergence between the teams. Unfortunately, the improved competition could be undone by the regulation changes to be introduced in 2017. Yes, Mercedes have still won five of the first six races this year, but there are promising signs: Ferrari should have won in Australia, if not for a tyre-choice blunder at the restart. Likewise, Red Bull looked set for victory in Monaco, but for a mistake in the pits. And Red Bull did win in Spain, although that one was...
Published: May 31, 2016
From the minute he became a Red Bull driver at the beginning of the 2014 season, Daniel Ricciardo—the self-styled Honey Badger—had established himself as Formula One’s smiling assassin. The assassin bit was there for all to see at last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, where Ricciardo produced one of the best performances of his career in search of his first win in two years and the team’s second victory in succession. But the smile? That was long gone. Ricciardo had been incredibly disappointed with his fourth-place finish in the previous event in Spain, where he led the...
Published: May 30, 2016
More than seven months after his last Formula One victory, Lewis Hamilton finally returned to the top step of the podium in Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix. With Mercedes gambling on the weather by extending Hamilton’s first stint on extreme-wet tyres, and with Red Bull again throwing a win away with a disastrous pit stop for Daniel Ricciardo, there was certainly an element of luck about his 44th career victory. But the three-time world champion was keen to ensure everyone was aware of just how impressive his own performance was. Having lost a near-certain Monte Carlo win as a result of...
Published: May 29, 2016
Lewis Hamilton claimed his first victory of the 2016 Formula One season in Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix. After an unfortunate start to the campaign, the three-time world champion suffered yet more reliability issues in qualifying and was forced to settle for third on the grid as Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo secured the first pole position of his career. But with a helping hand from the Mercedes pit wall and team-mate Nico Rosberg, who endured his least convincing race of the season in changeable conditions, Hamilton was able to take advantage of Ricciardo’s slow pit stop and secure...