Vettel backs Ferrari’s ‘fair’ use of team orders
By Sebastian Vettel said he had no issue with the way that Ferrari used team orders in today’s Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai. vettel was beaten off the line by his young team mate Charles Leclerc at the start of the race. But the Monegasque driver was subsequently ordered to let Vettel back in front. “I […]
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Steiner: F1 mid-field not closer, just ‘more people in it’
Haas team boss Guenther Steiner says F1’s 2019 mid-field is hunting ground to “more people”, with no specific team leading the charge as ‘best of the rest’. The US outfit won the sport’s B-class in Melbourne thanks to Kevin Magnussen’s sixth-place finish while McLaren’s Lando Norris accomplished the same feat in Bahrain. But in the […]
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Latifi raring to hit the track with Williams in Montreal
Williams reserve driver Nicholas Latifi will enjoy his first FP1 outing of the season in Montreal, and the Canadian is boosted by the prospect of running in front of his home crowd. Latifi’s maiden Friday session with Williams follows his two days of in-season testing last month with the British team at Barcelona and an […]
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Hamilton says he’s still riding ‘sweet spot’ from 2018
Lewis Hamilton believes he managed to find the ‘sweet spot’ in his driving style last year, and has succeeded in maintaining that consistency into his 2019 title campaign. “Last year I hit that sweet spot at some point during the season, and started being really, really consistent,” Hamilton told Autosport magazine. “The races have been […]
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Leclerc not expecting to catch Mercedes in Austria
Charles Leclerc feels that it’s unlikely that Ferrari will be able to significantly cut the gap to Mercedes in this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, “I think at the moment it is quite difficult. They seem very, very quick,” the 21-year-old Monegasque admitted this week. “They were extremely quick in Paul Ricard,” he noted during the […]
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Marko hints at a pro-Mercedes bias in Formula 1
Red Bull motorsport boss Helmut Marko isn’t happy with events of late in Formula 1 and questions whether there’s a pro-Mercedes bias in the sport. With seven consecutive wins so far in 2019, the mighty Mercedes squad is on a roll and slowly but surely heading towards a sixth drivers and constructors’ title on a […]
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Vettel: Next few races will prove ‘really crucial’ for Ferrari
Sebastian Vettel says upcoming races will prove “really crucial” for Ferrari as the Italian outfit attempts to put itself in gear and catch up with arch-rival Mercedes. Six races into its 2019 campaign, the Scuderia has yet to score a single win, its SF90 having failed to match the performance of Mercedes’ dominant W10 despite […]
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Vettel insists Leclerc challenge is good for Ferrari
Sebastian Vettel says that the success of Charles Leclerc in his first outings at Ferrari in 2019 has been overall positive for the team. Pundits had speculated that pressure from the 21-year-old Monegasque had been piling pressure on Vettel and forcing him into uncharacteristic mistakes in the first six races of 2019. “Vettel needs to […]
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Brawn: Canadian GP stewards had no ‘hidden-agenda’
Formula 1 managing director Ross Brawn insisted there was nothing “sinister” about the stewards’ decision to penalize Sebastian Vettel in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix. The FIA stewards stated that Vettel had rejoined the track in an unsafe manner and impeded rival Lewis Hamilton in the process. The subsequent five-second penalty handed to the Ferrari driver […]
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How Women-Led Movements Are Redefining Power, From California to Nepal
In her essay “There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions,” black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde wrote: “I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sizes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, […]
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