Month: November 2019

Romain Grosjean has criticised race control’s decision to start Italian Grand Prix qualifying on time despite heavy rain and standing water on track. Grosjean spun out five minutes into the session at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza. His Haas aqua-planed off on the pit straight immediately after setting a lap time. The session was quickly red-flagged,…

Daniel Ricciardo says Red Bull tried its best to come up with a strategy to challenge Ferrari and Mercedes at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend. However the attempt to run a super-skinny rear wing on Friday didn’t pay off, and the team was forced into a rethink overnight before qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix. “We tried…

Haas F1 boss Guenther Steiner says the introduction of the Halo cockpit protection system is likely to be the single most important new factor in terms of designing the team’s 2018 chassis. “It’s hard every year to make a better car. But this year, one of the design challenges will be the weight,” said Steiner.…

Lewis Hamilton said he would happily give up his Formula 1 racing career to train to become an astronaut. Fans need not worry however as the current leader of the world championship, who could conquer his fourth title in Austin this weekend, was obviously joking. Still, the Mercedes driver was impressed by his visit to…

Floods and droughts in many parts of the world are getting ever more frequent and intense. Scientists have long warned that a changing climate is making such weather events more extreme. What is often neglected in the public debate is that the impacts of climate change on flood and drought disasters are exacerbated by environmental…

As the end of the season nears, engine component usage is logically reaching critical levels, with many drivers sitting right on the margin. As a reminder, drivers are permitted to use only four of each of the six elements that make up the power unit under current regulations. Any more than that and they start…

Global Momentum is building for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. While the world has banned chemical and biological weapons, there is no explicit legal prohibition of nuclear weapons, although the International Court of Justice ruled unanimously that there is an obligation to bring to a conclusion negotiations for their total elimination.   The Non-Proliferation Treaty…

After last week’s win in Malaysia, the Red Bull team is in the unaccustomed position of being talked up as race favourites ahead of this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. But Daniel Ricciardo insists that they still need to be even quicker to really worry their rivals. “We’re getting better for sure,” he acknowledged. “[But] I’m…

Speaking before a session of the new Syriza parliament in Athens on Tuesday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared that Greek negotiators will not succumb to “blackmail” from European lenders and will adhere to their promise to end austerity policies in the state. “We are not in a hurry and we will not compromise,” Tsipras told…

The McLaren-Andretti Autosport partnership which ran Fernando Alonso at this year’s Indy 500 could return to the Brickyard next year. The American outfit joined forces this week with McLaren boss Zak Brown’s United Autosports company to buy the Walkinshaw Racing Supercars, and Michael Andretti hinted at the possibility of working once again with McLaren in…