As McLaren ends it contract with Jenson Button, racing director Eric Boullier has paid tribute to the Briton’s contribution to the Woking-based oufit’s history. Button remained contracted to McLaren this year, substituting for Indy-bound Fernando Alonso at Monaco and working as the brand’s ambassador. But the Briton now moves on to another chapter in his…
From Keke to Nico, the Rosberg family is a long lasting resident of Ibiza. The 2016 world champion was just a toddler when he met his wife Vivian on the Balearic island, and the couple has remained faithful to the lively summer resort ever since. In his latest Vlog, Nico take us for an off-season…
Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel admit equaling the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio’s five titles would represent a special milestone, but both men also put the achievement in perspective. Last year, Hamilton joined Vettel and Alain Prost in the quadruple champion club, and the Mercedes and Ferrari drivers now have an opportunity to join the great…
Privacy and civil liberties advocates are slamming the findings of a U.K. commission’s 18-month investigation into the government’s mass surveillance programs, released Thursday. The report by the U.K. Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Commission (ISC), launched as a response to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, found that the government’s spying operations need a complete…
In light of how the International Monetary Fund has spent most of its existence parading around the world telling governments to make their economies more friendly for multinational corporations by suppressing wages, restricting pensions, liberalizing industries, and more or less advocating they ignore the popular will of workers and the less fortunate—all in the name…
In his race to Fast Track the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership “free trade” deal, U.S. President Barack Obama made a stop at the Oregon headquarters of Nike, a large multinational with notoriously poor labor standards, to promote the behemoth pact. The irony was not lost on the dozens of protesters who greeted Obama outside the Portland…
The lower house of the French Parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a measure authorizing expansive, unprecedented, and invasive surveillance of citizens and foreigners, with little judicial oversight. The new spying powers, developed over the course of the last year, gained momentum in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris in January that killed 17…
George Russell jumped straight out of the Force India F1 car at the end of free practice 1 in Abu Dhabi, and then successfully won pole position for the GP3 finale. It had been a busy day for the 19-year-old. He started off with GP3 practice and then took part in Formula 1 Free Practice…
Haas formally unveiled its 2018 charger, the VF-18, in the Barcelona pitlane this morning at the crack of dawn. Check out the gallery of the car which will carry the US outfit’s hopes as well as those of its drivers, Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen. 8 You may also like Japanese GP: Friday’s action in…
Williams F1 chief technical officer Paddy Lowe has admitted that he’s disappointed the team finished so far behind Force India in 2017. Willians clinched fifth place in last year’s constructors standings, but was over 100 points behind their rivals. That was a lot more than Lowe had been expecting – and he didn’t believe it…