As a loyal partner to Ferrari, Shell Motorsport has worked for many years with Kimi Raikkonen who has now departed the Scuderia. The Dutch oil company paid a tribute to the Iceman as they followed Kimi on his last event for Shell. All has not been lost for the now Sauber driver however who received […]
Daniel Ricciardo says that he stopped caring about his Formula 1 statistics in comparison to Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen, in a season plagued with reliability issues. Ricciardo, who will move to Renault in 2019, scored two wins early on in the season, in China and Monaco respectively but the rest of his season was marred […]
Toto Wolff says Michael Schumacher “is always our thoughts” and has hailed the Formula One icon one of the “founding fathers” of Mercedes’ recent success. The German giants won a fifth successive Constructors’ Championship crown in 2018. And in an interview celebrating their success, Wolff heaped praise on the seven-time world champion. “Michael is always present in my […]
Red Bull motorsport advisor Dr Helmut Marko has explained the departure of Toro Rosso’s technical director James Key, who will make the switch to McLaren later next season, as Marko revealed Key didn’t share the vision of Toro Rosso. Marko did manage to delay the departure of Key as he won’t leave until the end […]
Mercedes boss, Toto Wolff was left surprised when he found out world champion, Lewis Hamilton was testing motorbikes. Wolff revealed he was unaware Hamilton was testing a Yamaha R4 on December 1st at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit alongside Michael Van de Mark and Alex Lowes, both IWATA centaur Superbike instructors. The Englishman was enthusiastic following the tests and […]
Ex-Formula One star Mark Webber says fellow Australian Daniel Ricciardo will excel for Renault in 2020. But next year? Not so much. Webber admits he is concerned by Ricciardo’s departure from Red Bull and fears Renault will be just making up the numbers next season. Webber claims he has even told Ricciardo about his doubts […]
Sergio Perez claims that while Esteban Ocon had the measure of him in qualifying, he was the superior race driver throughout the 2018 season. Out of the 21 races, Ocon out-qualified Perez 16 times, with the average gap at the end of the year reading -0.448s in favour of the Mercedes junior driver. However, Perez finished 12 points ahead of his […]
