Red Bull continued to dominate and Daniel Ricciardo continued to impress on the second and final day of Young Driver Testing at Abu Dhabi, with the Australian setting the fastest lap of the day once more. The Red Bull protégé Ricciardo smashed the Yas Marina circuit’s previous fastest lap, setting a time nearly nearly 1.4s [...]
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Red Bull continue to dominate the world of Formula 1 as Daniel Ricciardo impressively set the fastest time of the day, a time which would have put him right up in third on last weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix grid. The Aussie impressed greatly, beating drivers with decent F1 experience, including Force India test driver [...]
Will Schumi stick around? That is the question on everyone’s lips as we rapidly hurtle towards the off-season. Will the German seven-time world champion race another season in what is his first competitive year without a Grand Prix win since , believe it or not – 1991! He has scored just over half the number [...]
Mercedes’ torrid Hungarian GP has gone from bad to worse as they were handed a £50,000 fine for Rosberg’s wheel loss in the pit lane and then Schumacher was given a 10 place grid penalty for Spa after nearly putting Barrichello in the pit wall. Barrichello had been catching Schumacher for a few laps and [...]
1. Mark WEBBER (Red Bull), 1h24m38.200s 2. Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren), 1h24m39.560s 3. Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes), 1h24m59.507s TV UNILATERALS Q: Mark, you were very angry yesterday after the team switched the front wings. After the race today you said on the radio race ‘not bad for a number two driver.’ Was today all about poetic justice? [...]
Mercedes GP’s Nico Rosberg has said the team have made a ‘real turnaround’. The team put on a dismal display last time out in Valencia, but they have bounced back to score a podium position with their young driver. “I had a good start today and was happy to be up to fourth place by [...]
Mercedes GP were looking for a good weekend at Silverstone after dismal qualifying and race displays in Valencia. After qualifying 15th and 12th in Valencia their display in Britain was much better, much to the relief of Nico Rosberg. “I’m really pleased with fifth place today and it shows good progress after being so far [...]
TEAM PRINCIPALS: Ross BRAWN (Mercedes), Tony FERNANDES (Lotus), Christian HORNER (Red Bull), Martin WHITMARSH (McLaren) PRESS CONFERENCE Q: First of all a little recap of how the day has gone for all of you. How have things gone for Lotus Racing? Tony FERNANDES: Tough day today. We had three gearbox failures, two on Jarno’s (Trulli) [...]
Nico Rosberg (6th, 5th) “It’s been a decent start today and we have been able to get on top of many of our problems from Valencia. We achieved some good set-up work to optimise the aero package. It’s not easy to understand and find the optimum so it was good to make progress there and [...]
The British Grand Prix next Sunday marks one of two home Grands Prix in quick succession for the Mercedes GP team, whos Brackley base is just 8 miles from the Silverstone circuit. Nico Rosberg praised the track, saying ‘every driver loves to race there’: “Silverstone is a great circuit and one of those tracks which [...]
