The 2018 Azerbaijan Grand Prix is in the books and although there was some chaos in the race itself, the ASN driver standings remained relatively stable. Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton won the race, but it was as a result of early Christmas gifts from his teammate, Valtteri Bottas, Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and both Red Bull drivers […]
Pastor Maldonado, everybody’s favorite Formula One crashing machine and namesake of ASN’s weekly poor driving award claims he “had an offer to drive in F1 in 2017” but rejected the offer because he says “…I chose not to do it, because I had no guarantee that it would be a competitive car. If I do […]
The 2016 Max Verstappen Demolition Derby, er, Belgian Grand Prix, is in the books and while another Mercedes unsurprisingly won the race [this time, in the form of Nico Rosberg], the real drama came in watching Dutch teenager Max Verstappen channeling all his teenager hormones into one race as he temporarily took both Ferraris out […]
After a slow start to account for post-St. Patrick’s Day hangovers, the official 2016 AutoSportsNation Driver Rankings have finally been updated to reflect the 2016 season-opening Formula One race in Melbourne which we have dubbed the Gizzard of Oz Grand Prix [for no good reason whatsoever other than we like the sound of it – […]
In perhaps some of the most unsurprising news preceding the upcoming 2016 Formula One season, Renault/Lotus driver Pastor Maldonado has been stripped of his F1 ride and replaced with Danish driver Kevin Magnussen. The Venezuelan driver had become synonymous with poor driving over the last two years and only kept his seat due to the […]
The official 2015 ASN Driver Rankings have been updated to reflect the 2015 Brazilian Grand Prix – which we are calling the Brazilian Grand Prix [for obvious reasons…and hopefully we don’t have to explain that to you]. The 2015 Brazilian Grand Prix is held at Interlagos, one of the notoriously most difficult places to overtake […]
The official 2015 ASN Driver Rankings have been updated to reflect the 2015 Italian Grand Prix – which we are calling the Save Monza From Bernie Grand Prix [for the obvious reasons]. The Save Monza From Bernie Grand Prix is held at, of course, the famed Monza track in Italy which Formula One chief crusty […]
Once again, Mercedes won another Formula One race in the 2015 season as Lewis Hamilton comfortably won the 2015 Bahrain Grand Prix – but the winning margin was not as large due to some creative tire choice strategies from Ferrari that brought Kimi Raikkonen to a relatively close second after a late race brake problem […]
After watching the first three Formula One races of the 2015 season, we could take it no more and decided that something is needed to spice up what is quickly shaping up to be another long, boring year of watching Mercedes run away with the team championship and Lewis Hamilton run away with the drivers’ […]
Pastor Maldonado had a good testing session in Barcelona last week as he was the fastest in two of the four testing days in the 2015 Formula One season’s second testing sessions prior to the opening race in Australia next month. After being fastest on the Catalunya track in the first day of testing, Maldonado […]
After using some of their cash to jump one of their trucks over one of their cars earlier in the week, Lotus followed that with a 20-place grid penalty for top driver Romain Grosjean for using an extra power unit and finally, fittingly, ended their 2014 season with Pastor Maldonado’s flameout at Abu Dhabi…
In what is expected to be a recurring theme throughout the 2014 Formula One racing season, Mercedes went 1-2 again with Lewis Hamilton finishing first and teammate Nico Rosberg obeying team orders and finishing second one second back at the 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix. Mexican driver Sergio Perez brought Force India its first podium finish […]
The first official testing session for the upcoming 2014 Formula One racing season occurred in Jerez, Spain, last month and everybody was there. Well, almost everybody. Lotus passed. But the Formula One team with the legendary name finally showed up with their 2014 Formula One car – the E22 – at the second testing session […]
Now that they aren’t not paying Kimi Raikkonen to drive for them any longer, Lotus can use last year’s F1 car for other purposes – like pulling around an Airstream with Pastor Maldonado in it…