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Category: F1
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MoneyGram Haas F1 Team retains both drivers, Nico Hülkenberg and Kevin Magnussen for the 2024 season. Nico Hülkenberg and Kevin Magnussen, both veterans of the sport will continue to race for the Haas F1 Team in the 2024 season. With experience bursting from these two drivers, it’s going to be interesting to see how Haas…
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Filipe Massa has escalated his legal challenge over the 2008 World Drivers Championship, that saw the Brazilian lose the title to Lewis Hamilton by one point a the final race in Brazil. Conspiracy Theory The main part of the legal action, launched by Massa and his legal team, centre on the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix,…
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Sources from McLaren has confirmed that Alex Palou has decided against joining McLaren for the 2024 Indycar season. Alex Palou has apparently decided not to join McLaren for the 2024 Indycar season. In what would seem to be a sudden change of heart the Indycar Championship leader will now not switch to McLaren as he…
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Cyril Abiteboul, the former Alpine boss, emphasises the idea of a driver who possesses the ability to double as a team boss. With the recent departures of Laurent Rossi (CEO), Otmar Szafnauer (Team Principal), Alan Permane (Sporting Director), and Pat Fry (Technical Director), Alpine is currently engaged in discussions regarding upcoming decisions within the French…
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Max Verstappen dominated race day around Spa to take his third win in a row at the circuit. He quickly made up ground passing his teammate to make it a 1-2 for the team. Charles Leclerc brought home a much needed podium for Ferrari in 3rd while Hamilton took 4th and the fastest lap after…
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Sixty years ago the 1963 Belgian Grand Prix ran in circumstances so terrifying and dangerous nobody would dream of racing in them in this current age. It was a race won by a quiet genius, putting in a performance of almost superhuman skill. This is the story of that race and the tragic path that…
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The Dutch driver didn’t have it as easy this time. A mix up of pit stops gave rookie Piastri the lead for a couple laps. Pierre Gasly completes the podium with a great drive for the Alpine Team. As rain began to fall, the start of the sprint race was delayed by 7 minutes. As…
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Max Verstappen stormed to pole at the Belgian Grand Prix on Friday afternoon. Initially there were fears the session wouldn’t go ahead. Especially after heavy rain limited running in practice a few hours earlier. A minor delay was the only issues and with an ever-drying track it brought the best out of the drivers. Charles…
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After Alpine voiced concerns that their engine wasn’t level with their rivals, engine equalisation was added to the F1 Commission agenda for the Belgian GP. Alpine revealed to the FIA that their Renault engine was significantly down on its rivals. This prompted the FIA to analyse the power unit performance of all engines and consequently…
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The era of Dutch domination in Formula 1 is boring, according to many fans. With mad Max leading the championship by 110 points, having won 9/11 races, is the Verstappen era deterring fans from the sport? Verstappen is smashing records left right & centre just to keep things interesting. Whilst we can all respect Max’s…
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Ferrari has decided to make some changes to their management structure prior to the start of the Belgium GP. The Maranello based squad has announced the departure of Laurent Mekies as Race Director. Mekies was part of the team for four and a half seasons. Ferrari has announced that Diego Ioverno will take up the…
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‘This is a man’s world’ is the sentiment Danica Patrick shared with young women at the Hungarian GP. A man’s world that requires women in motorsport to be ‘more masculine’. Last weekend at the Hungarian GP, F1 Juniors made its debut on Sky. But it was the adult F1 presenter (former Indy Car and Nascar…
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After today’s race at Hungaroring, Mercedes’ boss, Toto Wolff discussed Red Bull’s pace and made an interesting comparison, suggesting that they appear so far ahead that the rest of the grid seems to be driving F2 cars. “We were quick in terms of the F2 pack,” Wolff added. “The F1 car won by 34 seconds.…
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The Hungarian Grand Prix has wrapped up and had also managed to showcase an impressive feat as we witnessed the fastest pitstop of the season. McLaren’s Oscar Piastri made the first attempt at breaking the record, achieving an astonishing 2.0-second pitstop. Although it was an impressive performance, it wasn’t enough to secure a spot on…
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Lewis Hamilton returns to F1 pole position at the Hungarian GP Qualifying, his first pole since December 2021 pipping Max Verstappen to the top spot by a mere 0.003 seconds. F1 Hungarian GP Qualifying – Q1 With the new qualifying system being used for the first time (each driver has 11 sets of tyres instead…
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This weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix marks the most recent in an event stretching back to the mid 1980s, the end of the Cold War, and a newly emerging global F1. This is the story of that race and how the World Championship went behind the Iron Curtain. It is hard to imagine a sport which…
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After a recent change in AlphaTauri, replacing Nyck DeVries with Red Bull reserve driver Daniel Ricciardo midway through the season, Nyck has now addressed the situation on his Instagram account, following a week of staying away from social media. He started off his statement by saying that he had taken some time off social media…
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The Stats you Need After an action-packed Silverstone weekend, Formula 1 heads to the beloved Hungaroring in Hungary. This circuit has been hosting a Grand Prix since Nelson Piquet took the tracks maiden victory in 1986. Drivers commonly share positive feelings towards the Hungaroring for its ‘karting-like’ feel. With 14 turns, and one long start-finish…
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As we reported earlier today, Redbull has confirmed that Danny Ricciardo will replace Nyck DeVries for the remaining races of the 2023 season. Nyck out, Danny In Nyck DeVries’s form for the early part of the 2023 season has been underwhelming and it seems that Redbull has agreed and pulled the plug on the partnership.…
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Danny Ricciardo may be retuning to Formula 1 quicker than some may have thought. Rumours have been building recently that the Ex McLaren driver will return to F1 with Alpha Tauri. The DeVries Problem Redbull decided to swoop for DeVries after his super-sub performance at the 2022 Italian GP where he replace Alex Albon at…