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Nico Rosberg wins 2014 Austrian GP

Nico Rosberg has won his third grand prix of the season after taking out the Austrian Grand Prix overnight. His victory margin of 1.9 seconds over Mercedes AMG teammate Lewis Hamilton sees the German extend his world championship lead to 29 points. Hamilton started from P9 but put in a sterling opening lap to be […]

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2014 Monaco GP: Post-race press conference

Here’s the post-race presser from the Monaco Grand Prix. As much as we’d like Lewis and Nico to maintain perspective the media needs to take a chill pill too, with this whole teammate saga they’re trying to manufacture. While you can’t read body language or tone of voice into this transcript, the two Mercedes drivers […]

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2014 Spanish GP: Post-race press conference

It’s the Lewis and Nico show in this press conference. And with five wins from five races for Mercedes AMG you can understand why. There’s some interesting stuff in there from Lewis discussing different driving styles to Nico and Michael Schumacher, which may explain why his early struggles with the team. Clearly, that’s all in […]

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2014 Chinese GP: Post-race press conference

Before you get into the mostly routine press conference after the break, let’s take a look at what the Red Bull team statement gave us in light of another race where Sebastian Vettel was asked to let Daniel Ricciardo overtake him for track position. Daniel Ricciardo: “With Seb, we were racing and you always want […]

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Lewis Hamilton wins 2014 Chinese GP

Lewis Hamilton cruising to victory has been the story of the early season so far in Formula 1 and that narrative continued in Shanghai today when Hamilton strolled to his third race win on end at the Chinese Grand Prix. It also says something of Mercedes AMG’s dominance over the field when a comparatively bumbling […]

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2014 Bahrain Grand Prix in pictures

It took almost 58 years for Mercedes to repeat its 1-2 podium result from 1955. And after doing so in Malaysia last week it took just seven days to do it all over again in Bahrain, a world away from the era Juan Manuel Fangio once ruled. Lewis Hamilton collected his second win on the […]

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2014 Malaysian GP: Post-race press conference

Here’s the full post-race press conference transcript from the Malaysian Grand Prix. It’s worth reading some of the exchanges between Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel. At the start Vettel pushed Rosberg towards the pit wall as the Mercedes powered past. It wasn’t a huge deal, but it was a little tight. If anyone had a […]

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Lewis Hamilton wins 2014 Malaysian GP

Lewis Hamilton has continued Mercedes AMG’s strong early season form by driving to a comfortable victory at the Malaysian Grand Prix today. He finished 17 seconds ahead of teammate Nico Rosberg. Amazingly, it’s the first Mercedes 1-2 finish since the 1955 Italian Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel collected Red Bull’s first official points for 2014 by […]

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Red Bull explains defence for Australian GP appeal

Christian Horner has revealed to Autosport the approach Red Bull Racing will take in its appeal to have Daniel Ricciardo’s disqualification from the Australian Grand Prix overturned. Ricciardo crossed the finish line in second place and he and the team have been stripped of the 18 world championship points earned on the day. The team […]

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2013 German GP: Post-race press conference

One of the benefits of Kimi Raikkonen finishing so close to Sebastian Vettel in the German Grand Prix is that it gave the media at the post-race press conference a chance to quiz both drivers about the possibility of racing in the same team next year. As you’d expect both played a fairly straight bat, […]

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2013 Spanish GP: Post-race press conference

Here’s the full text from the post-race presser at the Spanish Grand Prix. It was Fernando Alonso’s 32nd career victory which moves him one clear of Nigel Mansell. The two-time world champion is now only behind Ayrton Senna (41 wins), Alain Prost (51) and Michael Schumacher (91). From the press conference we liked this answer […]

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2013 Spanish GP: Qualifying report

Nico Rosberg (Mercedes AMG, 1:20.718) proved his pole position in Bahrain was no fluke with a repeat performance at the Spanish Grand Prix overnight. It’s also the third pole in a row for Mercedes, following Lewis Hamilton’s effort in China. Hamilton put in a blinder of a lap in Q2, but could only marginally improve […]