It was recently announced that Kevin Magnussen will replace Pastor Maldonado at the Enstone based Renault team for 2016 – the former Lotus outfit is being rebranded as Renault yet again. It’s quite rare for a driver to leave the sport and return again. Once you lose your seat, you don’t usually appear again – […]
A few years ago the sight of two Red Bulls, two McLarens and a Ferrari at the rear of the pack would have been incredible. But most of them had qualified there, and Kimi Raikkonen had only fallen to the back after a poor start. Stats More Ayrton Senna records may be matched… A […]
The Mercedes crew applaud Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg following the team’s seventh one-two of the season. Stats Another Ayrton Senna record equalled Lewis Hamilton’s victory in the Belgian Grand Prix now gives him as many podium finishes as Ayrton Senna. Hamilton racked up 80 podiums in 159 starts – it took Senna 158 races […]
The drivers united in a minute of silence for Jules Bianchi before the race began. Stats Sebastian Vettel equals Ayrton Senna’s victory tally Sebastian Vettel equalled Ayrton Senna’s 41 career grand prix victories with this win in the Hungarian Grand Prix. The pair are now in joint third place on the all-time list of F1 […]
“Hamilton Britain 2015 victory” by Joel Spencer – https://www.flickr.com/photos/130378054@N06/19455000732/. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamilton_Britain_2015_victory.jpg#/media/File:Hamilton_Britain_2015_victory.jpg Stats Wins at home Lewis Hamilton became the seventh driver to win his home race three times. However he will have to wait to break the British record, currently jointly held by Nigel Mansell and Jim Clark […]
One radio message sums up this race: “I’ve lost this race, haven’t I?” Those words, spoken by Lewis Hamilton after his team brought his in for fresh tyres towards the end of the race – with 15 laps to go – don’t show the anger and frustration that he did afterwards. This race was undoubtedly […]
Nico Rosberg finally showed some of the spark we saw last year as he took his first victory of the season in Spain. The Mercedes team dominated the race to take a one-two here. The German led away from pole and remained in the lead for the whole race. His team-mate Lewis Hamilton was second, […]
Lewis Hamilton took another step towards his third Championship with victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix, the fourth race of the 2015 season. He didn’t have it all his own way though – there was a credible threat once again from Ferrari after Sebastian Vettel’s shock victory in Malaysia. Mercedes showed a little bit of […]
After the hope of Sebastian Vettel‘s victory at the last race, Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes dominated this Chinese Grand Prix. Nico Rosberg had to settle for second place, ahead of Vettel and his team mate Kimi Raikkonen. The race was close at times, but never really came to life – much like the season’s opening […]
We arrived in Australia to a quiet welcome. No one had been expecting us to appear at all and it turned out we were quite unprepared… The Mighty Manor Motors are back. We had to cut some corners by modifying last year’s car, and Dave managed to find enough bits to make two cars, but […]
