Sir Jackie Stewart believes Formula 1’s rookies have a lot to gain by watching and communicating with the sport’s top drivers. George Russell, Lando Norris and British-born Alexander Albon all step up to the big time this year, respectively with Williams, McLaren and Toro Rosso. Stewart believes a young driver may find himself in awe…
Sergio Perez admits the future of the Mexican Grand Prix “isn’t looking good” and that its eventual loss would deal a major blow to the country and to future generations of Mexican drivers. The Mexican Grand Prix has established itself as one of Formula 1’s most popular races since its return to the calendar in…
Former F1 driver Robert Doornbos offered his two cents on countryman Max Verstappen’s prospects for 2019 and the Dutchman’s Red Bull Racing team mate Pierre Gasly. Appearing on Ziggo Sport’s Peptalk TV show, Doornbos, who raced for Minardi in 2005 and who also enjoyed a handful of outings with Red Bull in 2006, believes Verstappen…
Renault F1 boss Cyrill Abiteboul doubts rival Honda will pose much of a threat this season if the reliability of its unit is only slightly better than it was in 2018. Last year, the Japanese manufacturer put performance before durability, purposefully using Toro Rosso as its development partner before adding Red Bull racing to its…
Max Verstappen heads to Canada expecting Red Bull Racing to be challenged by a Ferrari upswing in performance at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Red Bull started its season as the third best team in the pecking order behind Mercedes and the Scuderia. But in Barcelona and Monaco, thanks to Max Verstappen, the Milton Keynes-based outfit…
has been eight years since the Great Recession, and the current economic crisis has become a permanent state of exception. Early this month, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation released a damning report on prospects for young adults around the world. The condensed version is that we don’t have many. For the so-called millennials, born between 1980…
Racing Point isn’t Lawrence Stroll’s personal little toy but a project for which the billionaire is massively motivated insists Sergio Perez. With the help of a consortium of investors, Stroll took over the assets of Force India last summer following the team’s financial demise and set out on rebuilding the Silverstone-based outfit. The Canadian fashion…
The more extreme the crimes of state, the more the state seeks to shroud them in secrecy. The greater the secrecy and the accompanying lies, the more vital becomes the role of whistleblowers – and the more vindictive becomes the state in its pursuit of them. Whistleblowers are people who start out as loyal servants…
Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen has revealed that a set-up blunder was to blame for his relative under-performance in Bahrain. Verstappen brought his RB15 home in fourth position at Sakhir, but rued his car’s lousy balance as well as cross winds that induced constant oversteer. However, the in-season test that followed the Bahrain round helped…
They have descended from homes built on the mountainside. Women sit together in the cemetery not to mourn but to wait for the duvet distribution to begin. When I approach them, each woman extends a hand in greeting. Some have the needed small stamped pieces of paper to receive two duvets but most don’t. One…