Fernando Alonso will honour his McLaren contract and not join Mercedes this winter, according to his manager Flavio Briatore. Alonso has been linked with a move following Nico Rosberg’s shock decision to retire from Formula One with immediate effect. Rosberg’s departure has left Mercedes weighing up its options, with Toto Wolff saying Alonso is one…
Cyril Abiteboul has shared the targets that Renault has set out for Formula 1 drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Jolyon Palmer, with the German expected to “impress” while his British team-mate needs to show “progress”. The French constructor endured a challenging return as a fully-fledged works entry last year, only beating Sauber and Manor to ninth…
One of Valtteri Bottas’ former team bosses has praised the driver’s talent and attitude, and tipped the Finn for big success at Mercedes this year. Bottas has been announced as Nico Rosberg’s replacement at the team, after the newly crowned world champion shocked the world of motorsport by retiring just five days after the end…
Red Bull Racing’s RB13 will be released from its pen and ready to lock horns on February 26, the day before pre-season testing kicks off in Barcelona. The team’s launch will therefore take place on the same day as junior bull squad Toro Ross’s presentation at the Circuit de Catalunya. Sauber is still on pole…
Valtteri Bottas held on to the fastest time on Wednesday, having completed a lap of 1:19.705s in the morning of the third day of pre-season testing. Bottas set his best lap time on ultrasoft tyres. But Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel was able to get to within a quarter of a second of the Mercedes in the…
The latest documents released from a trove leaked to journalist Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden reveal that GCHQ has created a virtual toolbox of online hacker tactics that allow British intelligence agents to “manipulate” online communities by seeding the Internet “with false information” and conducting the kind of malicious attacks on networks that send civilian…
Pirelli’s primer infograph for next weekend’s Australian Grand Prix provides concise but useful information about the tyres which will be in use. “The teams completed 7427 laps of Barcelona during pre-season testing, using all the compounds but concentrating on the medium and soft tyres, which were the ones best suited to Montmeló, says Pirelli’s Mario…
Nico Rosberg made a brief F1 comeback yesterday, albeit one which involved performing donuts for the pleasure of the crowd rather than driving his Mercedes in anger. As a guest of Lord March’s traditional Festival of Speed, the reigning world champion raced up the Goodwood hill a few times before immersing himself with the fans….
On May 10, 2013, a Guatemalan court found former dictator and army general José Efraín Ríos Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. It was an historic decision: the first time a former head of state had been prosecuted successfully in his native country for genocide, and the first time a high-level leader was convicted…
Sebastian Vettel said victory in the first race of the 2017 season had been a “positive surprise” to Ferrari. But the four-time world champion said that it was a proper reward for all the effort the team had been putting in. “Obviously today is fantastic, a big reward a big relief for everyone,” he said…