He remained at Haas until the end of the 2020 season, when the team opted to replace Magnussen and team -mate Romain Grosjean for F1 rookies Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin. While Mazepin was in place to race for 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine saw Haas drop the Russian driver ...
The Bahrain Grand Prix will be held at the Bahrain International Circuit in, you guessed it, the kingdom of Bahrain. It first appeared on the F1 calendar in 2004, and since then eight drivers have won the race: Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa, Jenson Button, Sebastian ...
Scott Speed was one of the first Red Bull junior drivers to reach Formula 1 in the mid-noughties, only for the journey to last just a season and a half. In our latestLights to Flagfeature, Speed talks about battling a chronic disease in and out of the...
Third and fourth is a pretty good result considering everything that happened to the two Ferrari drivers in that race. Sainz was doing well in the early stages but had to pit to sort out a tear-off in his brake duct, which caused some serious overheating. That left him on...
Outside those four, Mercedes have been closing the gap to the top but still look comfortably the third-best team. Lewis Hamilton has won the Hungarian Grand Prix eight times (a record for race wins at one venue, shared with, er, himself at the British GP and Michael Schumacher at the ...
Mansell at Williams in 1995. Being properly established at the team rather than racing part time, would he have been able to beat Hill and put together a stronger challenge for Schumacher? Coulthard at Williams in 1996 (alongside Hill). Coulthard seemed generally the faster driver in the second...
I was drifting a bait down through some kelp leaves, and I happened to notice that one of the kelp leaves looked a bit more like a kelp leaf than the other kelp leaves did. Just one tiny segment of a frond that was swaying back and forth in the tide was a slightly brighter yellow-...
Back to the Future Day To start with, a few thoughts on things in the film that have happened. Marty McFly’s self-drying jacket exists. There’s a ‘hydrophobic’ nano-fabric that repels water. I’ve got a pair of board (surf) shorts that do this myself. The hover-cam that featur...
to control the race. It’s the first time Honda have had a driver win nine races in a year, as Max was tied with Senna on eight, so that’s a great achievement for him and Honda. What a weekend it has been for Checo, the first Mexican to lead the home Grand Prix ...
"At that moment my only concern was not being hit. I was in a dangerous position in the middle of the track and I knew the other drivers couldn’t see me. Luckily for everyone, nothing worse happened today. We’ll reset and go back at it in the USA. Congrats to Max Versta...