November 18, 2019 / By mobanmarket
It’s been over a decade since Kimi Raikkonen’s banner championship year, but the Finn believes he’s driving now just as good as he was in 2007. Raikkonen is a senior citizen on Formula 1’s grid, with nineteen years separating the 38-year-old Ferrari driver from Grand Prix racing’s youngest charger, Williams’ Lance Stroll. While we’re counting […]
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Force India’s Sergio Perez had been one of the drivers feeling down in the dumps after Saturday’s qualifying session for the Italian Grand Prix. A miscalculation meant that he missed out on getting through Q1 by one thousandth of a second. After grid penalties were applied to other drivers it meant starting Sunday’s race from […]
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A piece of debris thrown into his path on the opening lap of Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix had Pierre Gasly fearing the worst when the scrap cleared his car’s halo and hit his visor. The Toro Rosso driver was running behind Daniel Ricciardo’s Red Bull when the Aussie’s front-wing was damaged in a contact with […]
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To help with its in-season development this syear, Ferrari will rely on four simulator drivers at Maranello, one of which will be Brendon Hartley. After his first full year of F1, Hartley’s contract with Toro Rosso was not renewed at the end of the last season, and alternatives to pursue his career as a Grand […]
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Pierre Gasly will not be held back by team orders in 2019 when he joins Max Verstappen at Red Bull Racing. That’s according to the team’s motorsports advisor Dr Helmut Marko, who says the two drivers will be given equal status at the start of next season’s campaign. But Marko also makes clear that there […]
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I’m still trying to process recent revelations in the LA Times and the Pulitzer-winning Inside Climate News about the extent to which ExxonMobil has worked to deny climate change. It knew about the threat of a planet warmed by burning fossil fuels as far back as the 70’s, and while publicly denying these risks, built […]
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Thousands of refugees were welcomed into Austria on Saturday after epic journeys from Hungary that many were forced to begin to take on foot. As USA Today reports, Hungary, which had spent days stopping migrants from leaving by train, provided buses to take them into Austria. The government relented under international pressure and after desperate […]
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Six months into their bombing campaign against Yemen, Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and U.S. President Barack Obama will hold a Washington, D.C. meeting later this week—the monarch’s first since taking the throne. The world leaders will be confronted by protests and petitions denouncing the two countries’ “special relationship,” which rights campaigners […]
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Charles Leclerc set impressive pace to go quickest on the penultimate day of F1 pre-season testing in Barcelona, with the Ferrari driver beating Toro Rosso’s Alexander Albon by more than six tenths of a second, with McLarn’s Lando Norris fourth fastest. Pierre Gasly took fourth place on the timesheet but the Red Bull driver’s session […]
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Sebastian Vettel edged team-mate Charles Leclerc by 0.035s as Ferrari continued to dominate the free practice sessions for Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix. The early running in Friday’s early evening session was made by Mercedes with Valtteri Bottas topping the timesheet with a lap of 1:30.124 set on medium tyres. That left the Australian Grand Prix winner […]
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