This past weekend, Ferrari had the opportunity to flex their muscles and lay claim to being alpha with the ability to match and best the reigning rulers of the paddock, Mercedes. Things looked to be going as good as they possibly could. To start, Charles Leclerc, the second-year driver who is in his first season …
The Formula 1 season enjoyed lights out for the first time in 2019, with the season getting underway in Melbourne, Australia last weekend. The race may not have featured a sterling amount of drama, or for some people, any at all. There may be a lot to be gleaned from the race or nothing at …
Valtteri Bottas started second at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne’s Albert Park on Sunday (March 17) but edged teammate, and reigning champion, Lewis Hamilton, by the first turn to sprint out to what would become a dominating victory. The win was the fourth of the Finn’s career and first since 2017. Hamilton finished second …
Lewis Hamilton starts where he left off from the 2018 season by claiming his sixth pole position at Melbourneʻs Albert Park. If you donʻt recall, Hamilton closed out last year by claiming pole and winning the race at Abu Dhabi to add an exclamation point to his fifth championship. After testing in Barcelona, it appeared …
Scuderia Toro Rosso – 9th in the Constructors Championship The beginning of the Formula 1 season brought some promise to the Toro Rosso team in preseason testing. Having switched from a warmed-over Ferrari engine to Honda for the year – the same manufacturer that plagued McLaren for two seasons – Toro Rosso looked like they …
Sauber – 8th in the Constructors Standings The Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 team has not been a good organization. They finished last (10th) in the standings in the previous two years and offered no reason to believe that they might suddenly make a run up the standings in 2018. This season, however, proved to go …
Lewis Hamilton did not win a race in the three starts of the Formula 1 season. On Sunday at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, he finished with a consecutive win to close a season when he won his fifth drivers title. The win was his seventh in the last ten races and 11th of …
With the Formula 1 season all but relegated to history, and the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, this moment seems rather apt for a capitulation of the things to be thankful for about the sport. While it is easy to go on a critical rant about the racing, the cars, the drivers, the leadership, the …
This past Sunday, the Brazilian Grand Prix (Nov. 11) featured a rather rare event. While the commonplace came to be with Lewis Hamilton winning and Mercedes clinching the Constructors Championship, there was a skirmish on track that manifested itself in the post-race weigh in and has continued to linger in the press. For the first …
Sometimes fortune rolls a certain way. Then sometimes fortune comes in the form of Esteban Ocon spinning out race leader Max Verstappen. Lewis Hamilton found himself in the enviable position of being in second when Ocon and Verstappen collided, turned it into a five-second lead, and held on from there at Interlagos in Brazil. Verstappen …
Going into the Mexican Grand Prix last weekend, Lewis Hamilton needed only to finish seventh or higher and he would secure his fifth world drivers title. Barring a mechanical failure, that seemed like a pretty easy task, considering that when Hamilton has been forced to the rear of the grid he has managed to make …
The Circuit of the Americas track outside of Austin, Texas may have provided its best race yet this past weekend. With Kimi Raikkonen pipping Lewis Hamilton at the start, Formula 1 benefited from a surprise outcome, keeping intrigue in the titles but also providing a different storyline to the season. Raikkonen, age 39, has been …
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