The Italian Grand Prix stewards took no further action over the incident that opposed Kevin Magnussen and Fernando Alonso, but the Dane still picked apart his rival for his ‘disrespectful’ attitude. Alonso gained a tow from the Haas driver during Q2 before overtaking Magnussen on the run down to the first chicane, with the McLaren…
The Renault team is heading to Interlagos with its 30 point lead over Haas in the constructors championship intact. There had been fears that the margin could be slashed to just ten points if Haas had won its appear against Romain Grosjean’s exclusion from the Italian Grand Prix in September for running an illegal floor…
Formula 1’s director of motorsports Ross Brawn has given a glimpse of new live data infographics that will be used in the sport’s broadcast coverage next season. F1 and Amazon Web Services have been working together to find new ways of interpreting and sharing the massive amounts of data already available to teams behind the…
A medium-to-high downforce venue, Interlagos is situated much lower than Mexico City in terms of altitude. But it’s still 800m above sea level and the altitude impacts aero performance and straight-line speed As a consequence, the cars need lots of aero and mechanical grip through the track’s twisty mid-section, but the two long straights make…
Sebastian Vettel told this week’s FIA Prize Giving Gala how Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne had been a major motivator behind the Formula 1 team’s recent successes. The 66-year-old passed away in July after suffering complications following surgery. The whole Ferrari team was understandably left reeling from the shock and struggled to retain its form in…
Full race results from the Bahrain Grand Prix at Sakhir, round 2 of the 2019 Formula 1 season. 2019 Bahrain Grand Prix – Race results Pos Driver Team Gap Stops 1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 57 laps – 1:34:21.295s 2 2 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes + 2.980s 2 3 Charles Leclerc Ferrari + 6.131s 2 4 Max…
Max Verstappen never held back his criticism of Red Bull Racing’s engine supplier in 2018, but the Dutchman says that all he wanted was for Renault to improve. The relationship between Red Bull and Renault became volatile once again this season on the back of reliability issues impacting the manufacturer’s power unit as well its…
Reigning Super GT champions Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto will return to the fray in 2019 to defend their crown in the series with Honda’s Team Kunimitsu. The pair took the Super GT title at the last round last year and Honda Racing has decided to support once again the 2009 F1 world champion and…
Do androids dream of a three-day week? This week, Professor Stephen Hawking weighed in on the topic that’s obsessing technologists, economists and social scientists around the world: whether a dawning age of robotics is going to spell mass unemployment. “If machines produce everything we need,” Hawking wrote in an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit,…
Williams F1 driver Robert Kubica says that the chronic problems currently facing the independent team are much bigger than any one person. Kubica and his team mate George Russell have been firmly stuck at the back of the grid for the first three races of 2019, with little realistic prospect of improving their lot anytime…