Lotus had a good week at the second testing session for the 2015 Formula One season in Barcelona last week as their drivers took the fastest times on three of the four testing days with Romain Grosjean taking the honors on the final day of testing. Grosjean recorded a 1:24 lap time followed by Mercedes’ […]
McLaren’s newest teammates for the Formula One 2015 racing season – Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button – decide the best way to thwart Mercedes dominance this year will be to take the “Back to the Future” approach…
Formula One racing team McLaren took a week to finally announce that they were keeping former world champion Jenson Button and dumping Danish rookie Kevin Magnussen for the 2015 racing season. Button joins another former world champion, Fernando Alonso, as the newly-Honda-powered team seeks to move up the standings after the Mercedes-dominated 2014 season. Alonso […]
For the Formula One portion of their annual “Action of the Year” contest, FIA selected Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo’s pass of Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso in the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix [and resulting comment] as the F1 representative of a highly-contested field of 11 entries for best Action of the Year [see link below]. People may […]
Due to contractual reasons, former Ferrari top Formula One driver Fernando Alonso could not reveal which team he was moving to in 2015 until December 1. But King Juan Carlos of Spain – a good friend of Alonso’s – had no such agreement and blurted out after the season-ending race at Abu Dhabi over the […]
Formula One race car driver Fernando Alonso was practicing for the upcoming 2014 Brazilian Grand Prix tomorrow when suddenly, his Ferrari caught fire. Alonso, a former world champion, coolly pulled over to the side of the track, climbed out of the burning car, grabbed a fire extinguisher from the other side of the fence and […]
With Daniel Ricciardo performing admirably for Red Bull and likely to be vaulted into the top driver spot for 2015, four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel has decided to both take advantage of a clause in his contract as well as accept a lucrative offer from Ferrari to join the Italian team while their current #1 […]
Ferrari keeps giving Fernando Alonso crap cars that could not compete with Red Bull the last four years and cannot compete with Mercedes this year yet there sits Alonso in fourth place of the 2014 Formula One season points standings for drivers. Because of this and his history of driving well, Alonso is demanding that […]
With Nico Rosberg sitting on the pole position and Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton residing at the back of the grid entering the race, there seemed to be nothing to prevent the dominant Mercedes team from capturing another victory to pile on to their many other victories in the 2014 season. But Mother Nature had another […]
It was another dominating Mercedes win as the team’s top two drivers – Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton – finished in the top two spots for the sixth time in six races in the 2014 Formula One racing season. After Hamilton had won the previous four races, this time, it was Rosberg collecting the first […]
Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg was fastest on the Sakhir track in Bahrain during the first day of the fledgling Formula One season’s second testing session. Hulkenberg was the only driver to post a sub-1:37 time on his laps and finished with a 1:36.8 to edge out Fernando Alonso from Ferrari at 1:37.8. Meanwhile, three-time defending […]
Felipe Massa in his new Williams F1 car was the fastest in the final day of testing at Jerez, Spain. Massa ran a 1:28.2 to nip former teammate Fernando Alonso while Alonso racked up the most laps on the track with 115. Meanwhile, defending champion Red Bull/Renault ended their final day of testing early due […]
Numbers have officially been assigned for the 2014 Formula One racing season – and life. World champion Sebastian Vettel, as was his right as world champion, retained two numbers – 1 for the 2014 season and 5 for his career. Runner-up Fernando Alonso selected 14 because he considered it lucky while Kimi Raikkonen went with […]