Ricciardo says 2016 proves Red Bull can catch up

Daniel Ricciardo believe that Red Bull’s surge in performance in the second part of last year can serve as a template for progress this season. Red Bull has struggled since the season kicked off in Melbourne, finding itself distanced by rivals Mercedes and Ferrari. But the Milton Keynes outfit’s slow start in 2016 before it…

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Palmer unfazed by pundits predicting Hulkenberg domination

There was a stark contrast between the performances of Renault team mates Jolyon Palmer and Nico Hulkenberg in the season-opening Australian GP. While the former endured a collection of issues, a crash and a retirement in the race, the latter was spared any problems and finished just one second shy of the points. Many in…

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Vandoorne gets into the mid-field mix

Stoffel Vandoorne’s productive day of work yesterday bodes well for the remainder of McLaren’s race weekend. The Belgian enjoyed a couple of trouble-free sessions, ending FP2 P11, pleased with the direction and momentum of the package beneath him. “It’s been a reasonably good day’s running,” said the McLaren rookie on Thursday. “If you look at…

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Haas: ‘We must not degenerate into socialism’

Haas F1 Team founder Gene Haas urges F1 to be “very careful” in its drive to shake-up the sport’s income distribution model. F1 CEO Chase Carey’s main focus as he steers the sport into the future is to cut costs and restructure income distribution to the teams in order to make Formula 1 a viable…

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Monger praises ‘inspirational support’ from motorsport family

Billy Monger has spoken about how much the support he’s received from across the world of motorsport has meant to him. The teenage Formula 4 driver suffered a horrendous crash while racing at Donington Park last month. Unsighted by another car, he smashed into the back of a rival at high speed. It took more…

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Hamilton won’t play with Vettel’s mind

Lewis Hamilton wants to beat the best Sebastian Vettel has to offer and won’t resort to mind games to try and undermine the German out of the car. It’s early days still but the 2017 season is turning into a full head-on battle between Mercedes’ Hamilton and Vettel’s Ferrari. As worthy opponents, both drivers have…

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London GP idea gets thumbs-up from McLaren boss

McLaren executive director Zak Brown has put his support behind the idea of a London Grand Prix. “I would love to see a London GP,” Brown told the Daily Star newspaper this week. However, Brown added that in his view, any street race held in the city must look recognisably London-based if it’s to succeed….

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Honda admits MGU-H will last only two races!

The good news is that Honda can correctly predict when its MGU-H component will fail. The bad news is that it will only last two races. There were more reliability woes for Honda this weekend in Monaco. One-off stand-in Jenson Button put in a great effort to qualify P9 yesterday only to be demoted to…

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