Prior to the start of the race everyone bar some extremely optimistic Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton fans was certain that Fernando Alonso or Mark Webber would win the world championship. Because of this, it is all the more strange how both drivers got things so badly wrong today. The first decisive factor was the [...]
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As predicted by a number of people in our predictions league, Sebastian Vettel has put the Red Bull RB6 on pole position going into today’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. This was Vettel’s 10th pole position of the season; a feat that puts him alongside legends like four-times champion Alain Prost and three-times champion Ayrton Senna. [...]
We speculated in our Brazilian Grand Prixdiction that Nico Hulkenberg would have a big impact in deciding who would win the race, and indeed he has. In fact, the Red Bull 1-2 was pretty much signed and sealed within the first 7 laps. Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber got the vital jump on the polesitter [...]
So, Nico Hulkenberg has put the Williams on pole position, their first since 2005, and Nico’s first ever in his debut Grand Prix season, something which will undoubtedly change the career of the young rookie forever; a driver who was facing speculation that he would be dumped by his current team and be replaced by [...]
Red Bull must have been pretty happy with how the infighting and the Helmut Marko affair was swiftly brushed under the carpet and forgotten about. That is until Mark Webber brought it all back up again in a sensational press conference yesterday. It was suggested to the Aussie that the team were emotionally behind him. [...]
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 [...]
In today’s Friday Practice sessions won by Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber we got our first taste of action on the brand new Yeongam circuit in Korea. If you haven’t had chance to see an on board lap yet, Karun Chandhok’ll take you on one in a Red Bull in the video above. Personally, I [...]
1600 lights, 24 generators, 110 km of wires, 3.2 millions watts of electric power, these are the numbers used in the Singapore Street track around Marina Bay for the Formula 1 night race. This makes it great to watch as the cars streak by with the lights of the city glowing in the background. It [...]
Monza, aptly nicknamed ‘the temple of speed’ features endless straights which allows the cars to run at well over 300 km/h. This historic racetrack has held a Grand Prix every year since 1950 with the exception of a single year. It hosted some of the fastest, most skillful also the most dangerous Formula 1 races [...]
Every track test driver’s skill but nowhere can challenge the infamous Spa-Francorchamps. The plunge down to the La Source hairpin, up to the blind Eau Rouge crest without lifting is the stuff of legend, up the hill to Les Combes. Then, accelerate out of Stavelot flat through Blanchimont & end up to the Bus Stop [...]








