Williams is targeting a double-points finish in Hungary this weekend, the last race before F1’s well-deserved two-week summer break kicks in. With rookie Lance Stroll’s series of recent breakthrough results and Felipe Massa’s consistent performance, and on a track where the Grove-based outfit has always done well, there’s no reason for Williams’ drivers to aim…
In another truncated conclusion to his race weekend, McLaren’s Fernando Alonso didn’t hold anything back when it came to voicing his persisting frustrations. The Spanish driver gave it his best early on when the lights went green in Bahrain, and spent most of the race just outside the top ten, but lamented his Honda engine’s…
The Canaries skipper was not at all pleased with the decision to award the Red Devils two spot-kicks when the sides met on Sunday Norwich City midfielder Alex Tettey has expressed his anger over the use of VAR in their 3-1 defeat to Manchester United. Twice penalties were awarded to Manchester United with the use of…
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…