When Chris Harris makes a statement like “This might just be the best day of my working life,” you know he must have done something special. Thing is, though, he did not drive a single car in his latest piece for Drive. We’ll not spoil it for you, the category tag has given you a […]
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Red Bull Racing owner Dietrich Mateschitz has joined Michael Schumacher in critisising Pirelli’s 2012 tyres. He says the sport has become more interesting for fans, but the teams are struggling to come to grips (haha) with the new tyres. Speaking to Autosport, Mateschitz said: “F1 is more exciting and more unpredictable than ever before. Obviously, […]
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“We drive like on raw eggs”
Like, really! Those are the words of seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher who is telling the world he thinks the 2012 spec Pirelli tyres are cabbage. Speaking about the tyres to CNN the 43-year-old said: “I just think that they’re playing a much too big effect because they are so peaky and so special that […]
No doubt you’re now well versed on the troubles in Bahrain and the fact thousands of protesters are taking to the streets to promote their cause to the watching global audience. Happily, on two fronts, we can report that the protests so far this week seem to have been peaceful in their nature and the […]
We might have seen 12 days of F1 pre-season testing already this year, but today is the eve of the 2012 Formula One season proper. When tomorrow’s free practice sessions go green that will be the first chance we get to see who is fast and who was mucking around during those pre-season tests. To […]
Charlie Whiting is Formula One’s Race Director and is therefore best placed to talk us through the various changes to the Sporting and Technical Regulations for the 2012 F1 season. Some of the changes introduced this year include a four hour time limit on Grands Prix, a relaxation for tyre usage in Friday free practice […]
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HRT unveils 2012 F1 car
HRT’s new F112 is another latecomer to the 2012 F1 season and like Marussia the Spanish team has only managed promotional runs ahead of this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix. Acknowledged as a perennial backmarker it’s the first time HRT has been able to fire their car up prior to the first race. Luis Péres-Sala, Team […]
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Marussia unveils 2012 F1 car
Last week the Marussia F1 team revealed the MR01, their 2012 challenger. After failing an FIA crash test in late February the team has only managed to squeeze in a couple of promotional drives, meaning the car will get its first real test until later this week. Team Principal John Booth explained, “so while the […]
Sebastian Vettel found himself in a familiar position after he took his Red Bull RB8 to the top of the timesheets in F1 testing overnight. The teams have arrived at Barcelona for four days of testing and with the launch of the Mercedes AMG F1 W03 all the major teams are now running their 2012 […]
Mercedes AMG has just revealed its F1 W03 to the world ahead of tonight’s pre-season testing in Barcelona. Admitting that the W03 has a face only a mother could love Team Principal Ross Brawn said, “The F1 W03 is a car that I believe, and hope, our team can be proud of, and which will […]
Exploiting an interesting quirk in Formula One’s testing agreement Mercedes AMG ran a full private test session with its new W03 in Barcelona yesterday. They racked up 300km of uninterrupted testing. Michael Schumacher drove in the morning and Nico Rosberg took over in the afternoon. The W03 first turned a wheel in a shakedown and […]
Overnight the covers came off the Scuderia Toro Rosso STR7. As has become the norm a ‘platypus’ style nose is featured and on the STR7 it’s one of the more elegant examples we’ve seen to date. Although it doesn’t have an intake/scoop as seen on the sister Red Bull car. Following the fortunes of Toro […]