Monthly Archives: November 2019

Haas drivers still clueless as to why erratic form persists

Haas endured its worst performance of the 2019 season in Austria, the US outfit’s drivers still clueless as to the reasons behind the performance swings of their VF-19. Kevin Magnussen’s impressive fifth-place performance in qualifying boded well for the Dane’s Sunday, even considering a start from P10 following a five-spot grid drop. From the outset […]

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2020 prototype tyres could be rolled out this season – Pirelli

Pirelli’s head of car racing Mario Isola has suggested that Formula 1 might accelerate the introduction of 2020’s new prototype tyres. He said that it could even be possible for the new 18-inch tyres to make their first appearance during Grand Prix weekends before the end of the yea. Isola was responding after moves made […]

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Verstappen sees ‘three or four drivers’ as good as Hamilton

Max Verstappen has the utmost respect for Lewis Hamilton’s achievements in F1, but the Dutchman believes there are others on the grid that are just as good as the five-time world champion. Verstappen concluded the first half of the 2019 campaign in F1 as the only driver to trounce Mercedes’ overwhelming supremacy, the Red Bull […]

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Wolff sees growing challenge from rivals as ‘positive’

Team boss Toto Wolff admits that Mercedes’ rivals are fast closing in on the championship leaders, and that the squad will need to find new ways to maintain its edge in the sport. Wolff said that recent gains in performance from Red Bull’s new partnership with Honda, together with Ferrari’s straight line speed advantage, are […]

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Red Bull casts positive outlook after Silverstone performance

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner seized upon his team’s “really encouraging” performance at the British Grand Prix to cast a positive outlook on the second half of the F1 season. Beforehand, Red Bull was wary of its weekend at Silverstone, a power circuit where it anticipated to struggle relative to its front-running rivals, Mercedes […]

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Verstappen: Back-of-grid start at Monza ‘no big deal’

Max Verstappen will be sent to the back of the grid next weekend at Monza if the Dutchman takes on a new Honda power unit, but the Red Bull charger insists a back-row start is “no big deal”. At Spa, Honda introduced its Spec 4 engine which was allocated to Red Bull’s Alex Albon and […]

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Kvyat driving ‘better than ever’ and enjoying every lap

Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat says he’s been driving at his peak this season and enjoying every lap of his 2019 comeback season. After spending four bumpy years in the Red Bull family, marked by a round trip between Toro Rosso and the senior bull squad, Kvyat was sent packing before the end of the 2017 […]

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Mercedes left ‘not satisfied’ by Spa and Monza defeats – Wolff

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff admits the Silver Arrows squad was left unhappy by its defeat at the hands of Ferrari at Spa and Monza, despite a good haul of points secured by the team at both venues. Both Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas stood on the podiums in Belgium and in Italy, but with the […]

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Hamilton says new generation ‘gets away with a lot more’

Lewis Hamilton says that the new rising stars of Formula 1 such as Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen are being treated more leniently than his generation of drivers. His complaint came after race stewards in today’s Italian Grand Prix declined to take action against Leclerc when the Ferrari driver muscled Hamilton into the run-off at […]

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Tallying Up the Mounting Economic Toll of North Carolina's HB2

Since becoming law in late March, North Carolina’s House Bill 2 has sparked national controversy and an ongoing boycott of the state over its discriminatory provisions. HB2 requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that match the gender on their birth certificate and bars local governments from adopting LGBT protections and minimum wage laws.  This […]

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