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Mercedes should put a sticker on this car 28th May 2009, 7:00
At the current rate of scoring*, after the European Grand Prix it will be inevitable that one of the Brawn GP drivers will win the drivers’ championship. And the Mercedes-powered cars have already scored more than twice as many points as any of their rivals. So why haven’t Mercedes plastered their logos all over the [...]
Honda: a one-off or the first of many? 7th December 2008, 11:12
Did Honda drop its F1 team because it was performing too poorly to be worth keeping? Or are car manufacturers going to begin cutting their F1 teams, irrespective of how well they’re doing, to save money? Share this with your friends: Tweet
Red Bull buys back Toro Rosso – does it want STR’s Ferrari engines? 25th November 2008, 21:03
Red Bull is once again the 100% owner of Toro Rosso having bought back the 50% stake it sold to Gerhard Berger two years ago. Given the economic climate any such move is likely to be read as significant, but what are the reasons for this decision by Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz? Share this [...]
Will Force India make a leap forward in 2009 after their McLaren deal? 10th November 2008, 19:14
Force India’s technical tie-up with McLaren-Mercedes, which was rumoured for several weeks, was announced today. Having used Ferrari engines in 2006 (as Spyker) and 2007, Force India is embarking on an ambitious project which will see them use the same gearbox, KERS, Mercedes engine and other parts as McLaren. How will this massive acquisition of [...]
Mercedes ‘wants own F1 team’ 23rd October 2008, 9:41
‘As soon as the price is right’
Ferrari engines fill top four places in speed traps in qualifying at Valencia 23rd August 2008, 22:00
So much for Mercedes giving McLaren a 25 horsepower advantage – the engine doing the business at Valencia this weekend is the Ferrari. Here’s who set the top four maximum speeds in the second sector of the lap at Valencia (where the highest speeds are reached) during qualifying today: Position Drivers Car Speed 1 Sebastian [...]
McLaren-Mercedes ‘have 25bhp more’ 20th August 2008, 13:00
McLaren weren’t quite on Ferrari’s pace early in the season but now they’ve won three races in a row. Part of their improvement is probably down to the improvements we discussed after the German Grand Prix. But new rumours suggest McLaren’s Mercedes engine produces 25 horsepower more than any other F1 car. I was a [...]
McLaren & Mercedes road divisions split 8th July 2008, 1:00
As well as producing Formula 1 cars together since 1995 McLaren and Mercedes have also been producing road cars. But that joint venture is coming to an end. Together the two produced the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, plus a convertible version (above) and a hard-tuned special edition dubbed 722 (taking its name from Stirling Moss’s car [...]
Kubica, Schumacher and Hamilton: Why they are ‘the ones who got away’ 11th June 2008, 11:00
Robert Kubica scored his maiden Grand Prix win for BMW this weekend. But if someone at Renault had been paying better attention four years ago he could have been driving for them instead. He’s not the only top driver to have slipped through the fingers of a top team early in his career. For a [...]
The worst–case scenario 15th May 2008, 12:30
Call it the credit crunch, call it the sub-prime crisis, whatever you call it, I call it trouble. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what the consequences of the developing global economic downturn will be for Formula 1. But it’s hard to imagine them being good. And to the pessimists it could look very bad indeed. [...]
