Paddy Lowe says Williams’ performance in qualifying in Baku was enhanced more by the track’s characteristics rather than by any significant improvement of its car. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin easily made the Q2 cut on Saturday, a first this year for the Russian, and ultimately concluded the day just…
Read moreSteiner: ‘F1 only creating problems with knee-jerk reactions’
Haas team boss Guenther Steiner believes Formula 1 is creating more problems than benefits for itself when it fails to take the time to properly consider changes. In Melbourne, the opening round of the world championship underlined once again the issue of overtaking in F1, with only five passes recorded at the Australian event. As…
Read moreStupidity and Intelligence: Science, GMOs and Our Food
“Science” is derived from the scire – “to know”. Each of us should know what we are eating, how it was produced, what impact it has on our health. “Agroecology, not the mechanistic and blind paradigm of industrial agriculture, is the truly scientific approach to food production.” The knowledge we need for growing food is…
Read more"People and Planet First": On the Moral Authority of Climate Justice and a New Economy
Naomi delivered the following remarks at a press conference introducing “People and Planet First: the Imperative to Change Course,” a high-level meeting being held at the Vatican this week to explore Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ recently-released encyclical letter on ecology. The gathering will take place on July 2-3, and is being convened by the Pontifical Council for Justice and…
Read moreF1 raises fuel limit for 2019 to allow ‘full power at all times’
Formula 1’s Strategy Group and the F1 Commission have agreed on a series of revisions of the sport’s technical regulations for 2019. The most notable change for next season is an increase in race fuel allowance from 2015 to 110kg that will permit drivers to exploit the full power of their engines at all times,…
Read moreHamilton happy to ‘wipe the smile off’ Vettel’s face!
Lewis Hamilton admitted that he’d been holding back his best until the very last lap of qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver set a new track record time of 1:21.164s in his final outing in Q3, over six tenths faster than Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel. The size of his advantage over the rest…
Read moreDoctors ‘satisfied’ with Lauda’s condition
Doctors caring for three-time Formula 1 world champion and Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda have said that they are satisfied with his condition. The 69-year-old had been absent from recent Grand Prix events, which was most unusual for him. It had been put down to a ‘severe summer ‘flu’. However it was revealed that Lauda…
Read moreRegulations ‘no limit to innovation’, insist Mercedes and Ferrari
Mercedes and Ferrari found themselves in agreement when asked whether the current technical rules and regulations were proving to be a limit to what teams can do in the sport. “I personally don’t believe there is a limit,” Mercedes’ High Performance Powertrains boss Andy Cowell told reporters in Spain last week. “It comes down to…
Read moreWilliams launches new F1 eSports team
Williams F1 has announced the launch of a new official eSports team, managed by JIM Racing founder Javier Guerra. The announcement was made by the team in Barcelona ahead of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. “eSports gives Williams an opportunity to compete in a burgeoning industry,” the team said in a press release on Thursday….
Read moreIn a nutshell: which tyres for the Austrian GP?
Formula 1 moves on from Paul Ricard’s new abrasive surface to the Red Bull Ring’s smooth asphalt located in Austria’s Styrian mountains. Pirelli will bring to the venue the same tyre range it supplied last year, meaning a selection of soft, supersoft and ultrasoft compounds. “Austria features the same tyre nomination as France, but they…
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