Month: November 2019

The FIA has taken measures at Austin to prevent a repeat of the controversy that marred last year’s US Grand Prix, when Max Verstappen was stripped of third place for exceeding track limits at COTA. The Red Bull driver had overtaken Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen on the ultimate lap of the race following a bold maneuver…

For me, the road to This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate begins in a very specific time and place. The time was exactly ten years ago. The place was New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The road in question was flooded and littered with bodies. Today I am posting, for the first…

The Saudis love coalitions. The Sunni monarchy had the Americans, the British, the French and sundry other oil importers on their side to drive Saddam’s legions out of Kuwait in 1991. Earlier this year, the Saudi military – for which read the youngest defence minister in the world and the ambitious Deputy Prime Minister, Mohamed…

Speaking in Cairo on Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry reassured Egyptian officials that the country’s human rights abuses will not get in the way of further boosts to U.S. aid, arms, and military “cooperation.” “Egypt remains vital … to engagement and stability in the region as a whole,” said Kerry at  joint appearance with…

There’s been a lot of talk about Ferrari’s sudden power surge, Sebastian Vettel confirming the Scuderia’s boost in speed when he outpaced Mercedes’ Valtteri Botta for pole on Saturday. However, for all the chatter – and suspicion – about Maranello’s improved muscle it was still a Mercedes-powered car that clocked in with the highest top…

The Racing Point Force India team will be bringing an updated aero package to this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix at Marina Bay Street Circuit. “We have more performance to bring to the car this weekend with an updated aero package,” confirmed team principal Otmar Szafnauer on Tuesday. The new parts will be tried out for…

So much for the Formula 1 summer shutdown! We’ve had three major driver announcements for 2019 in the last couple of weeks, beginning with Daniel Ricciardo’s move to Renault putting him alongside Nico Hulkenberg And this week Fernando Alonso confirmed that he’s ending his time in F1 at the end of the season. That opened…

Sebastian Vettel put behind his Friday hit with the wall in Singapore to lead Saturday’s final free practice, clocking in with a highly impressive lap in 1m38.054s that left team mate Kimi Raikkonen 0.362s behind. The Ferrari duo had the upper hand over its Mercedes’ rivals, with Lewis Hamilton ending up P3 in front of…

Esteban Ocon says that he’s more motivated than ever to achieve success in Formula 1. Seeing young contemporaries such as Charles Leclerc, Pierre Gasly and Lando Norris moving up in the ranks is only adding to the French driver’s desire to stay in the sport and show what he can do. “I dream F1, I…

It’s a destination appreciated by the entire F1 community but for Daniel Ricciardo, Austin offers the best of both the racing and the urban worlds. The city’s Circuit of the Americas has been on the F1 map since 2012, and with the exception of a muddy mess caused by torrential rain in 2015, the event…