Coronavirus: The impact on the sporting world as numerous events are disrupted March 12, 2020 In the space of a week the coronavirus pandemic has gone from having a minimal impact on the world’s sporting events to causing vast swathes of postponements and contests played out behind closed doors. This week saw the first Premier League game postponed due to Covid-19, Champions League matches played in empty stadiums and two [...]
‘My goal is to return to Red Bull’: Pierre Gasly ready to bounce back after rollercoaster 2019 March 11, 2020 Few will have experienced the emotional rollercoaster that Formula One driver Pierre Gasly did in 2019. Six months into his first season with Red Bull the Frenchman was demoted back to their junior team, Toro Rosso. The same weekend his close friend, Anthoine Hubert, was killed in a horrific crash in Formula Two. “Last year [...]
Max Chilton on his Indy500 hopes, the dangers of IndyCar and a difficult end to his Formula One career March 10, 2020 Max Chilton’s motor racing career has been filled with highs and lows but, having found a home in North America’s IndyCar series, there is now a need to start delivering results. The 28-year-old bowed out of Formula One in 2014 and has since set about establishing himself as the fastest Briton in America. This weekend [...]
The new Formula One season is almost upon us but McLaren chief Zak Brown has one eye on 2021 March 1, 2020 Last year’s fourth-placed finish in the Formula One constructor’s championship saw McLaren end one of the most turbulent decades in the team’s history on a high. While it was a huge step forward – climbing from ninth and sixth in the previous two seasons – maintaining that trajectory this year looks all but inconceivable. Mercedes, [...]
Lando Norris reveals the anxiety of his debut F1 season and what he is targeting in 2020 February 11, 2020 As a new season approaches, Formula One’s youngest driver is ready to come of age in his second campaign. Lando Norris enjoyed a relatively successful debut season in 2019, finishing 11th in the driver’s standings as McLaren came fourth in the constructors’ championship. But the 20-year-old Briton did not always believe his first foray into [...]
Red Bull and Max Verstappen are ready to challenge Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton for F1 titles January 8, 2020 Max Verstappen’s decision, announced this week, to sign a three-year contract extension to stay at Red Bull until the end of the 2023 season is the biggest sign yet of the team’s intent to topple Mercedes. The 22-year-old’s future was the subject of much speculation during the off-season until he committed his long-term future to [...]
Ferrari left with plenty to ponder as disappointing F1 season comes to a close in Abu Dhabi November 27, 2019 After the curtain falls on another Formula One season under the floodlights of this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, there will be a number of questions for Ferrari to answer over the winter break. The Italians have already secured second place in the constructors’ championship but have once again fallen short of their ultimate goal, [...]
Revealed: How Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes retained their Formula One titles but kept a lid on costs November 7, 2019 Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes team has become the only outfit in the past decade to win the Formula One championship without increasing its spending by more than £1m. Hamilton steered his Mercedes to a sixth title at last weekend’s US Grand Prix despite the team’s costs only increasing by £0.9m to £321.5m, analysis of company accounts [...]
Why does Lewis Hamilton not receive the recognition he deserves in Great Britain? November 6, 2019 When Lewis Hamilton claimed his sixth Formula One world title on Sunday there was an inevitability about it that detracted from the magnitude of his accomplishment. Hamilton is the second most successful F1 driver ever and among a pantheon of elite British sportspeople yet he remains largely under-appreciated in the UK. Undoubtedly he is admired [...]
Where Lewis Hamilton’s sixth title puts him in Formula One’s all-time lists November 4, 2019 Another year in Formula One for Lewis Hamilton, another world championship. And just as the Briton continues to underline his and Mercedes’ utter dominance of the current era, so too does he climb the sport’s all-time lists. Here is where his title-clinching second-place finish at Sunday’s US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, leaves him. Titles [...]
