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Formula 1 looking for ways to spice up the off-season

Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey says the sport is currently investigating ways to engage with its fans twelve months a year and fill the entertainment void of the winter off-season. The Grand Prix calendar runs from March to the end of November and currently comprises 21 race dates. With the exception of pre-season testing which […]

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The Palestinian Bubble and the Burning of Toddler, Ali Dawabsha

One-and-a-half year old Ali Saad Dawabsha became the latest victim of Israeli violence on July 31. He was burnt to death. Other members of his family were also severely burnt in a Jewish settlers’ attack on their home in the village of Duma, near Nablus, in the West Bank. A spokesman for Rabbis for Human […]

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FP2: Ferrari’s Raikkonen and Vettel shine in the Bahrain night

Ferrari was on top form in the second free practice session for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Kimi Raikkonen pipped his team mate Sebastian Vettel to Friday’s honours by just over a hundredths of a second. The Mercedes pair of Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton were third and fourth fastest in the weekend’s first run under […]

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Bottas predicts strategy will be key in tight race

Click:hidden screws in wood Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas will start tomorrow’s Canadian Grand Prix from the front row alongside polesitter Sebastian Vettel. But the Finn says that it’s the race strategy that could prove the decisive factor. “Qualifying wise, obviously it was close with Ferrari,” Bottas said after qualifying. “It’s always annoying when its so close […]

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Barnard: ‘Changing McLaren like turning around an oil tanker’

Former McLaren designer John Barnard believes the big changes required to turn around the British outfit’s fortunes would be so massive they could put the team’s very existence in jeopardy. The legendary designer was a major contributor to McLaren’s revival when it was taken over by Ron Dennis in 1980, his revolutionary MP4/1 carbon-fibre concept […]

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Williams parts with head of aero Dirk de Beer

Williams continues to manage its crisis, parting ways today with its chief aerodynamicist Dirk de Beer just weeks after the departure from the team of chief designer Ed Wood. The Grove-based outfit has struggled to perform since the start of the season with an FW41 that has not lived up to expectations. Williams technical director […]

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De Ferran back in F1 as McLaren ‘informal consultant’

The McLaren team has turned to two-time IndyCar champion and former Indy 500 winner Gil de Ferran to help shake things up at Woking As well as his successful career as a driver, de Ferran was also previously briefly sporting boss at BAR-Honda. “Gil is a good friend of McLaren,” explained CEO Zak Brown. “We […]

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Horner: ‘An unbelievable race nailed in the first lap by mature Max’

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner took his hat off to Max Verstappen for achieving an unbelievable drive in which the young Dutchman showed that he was an old head on a young pair of shoulders. Verstappen stormed off the grid in hot pursuit of a leading pair of Silver Arrows and Kimi Raikkonen, first […]

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Ricciardo still ‘putting the pieces together’ for 2019

The man of the moment, Red Bull Racing’s Daniel Ricciardo, is still in the process of weighing up his options for the future and “putting the pieces together”. The Aussie’s name was in the news again today as reports of McLaren offering $20 million for his services came out of Germany. Queried on the story, […]

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Gasly: ‘Mega car but time lost on the straights is crazy’

Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly believes the lack of grunt of his Honda engine down Silverstone’s straights has taken away the gains achieved by the STR13 handling qualities. Gasly’s car was the single Toro Rosso to run in qualifying on Saturday after a suspension failure and massive crash sidelined Brendon Hartley for the session. The Frenchman […]

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