2016 F1 world champion Nico Rosberg has revealed that Prince Albert of Monaco has involved himself in negotiations around the future of the Monaco Grand Prix. The race in the Principality is one of the oldest on the calendar, and it has played host to 79 races over the years, 68 of which have taken
MorePaul di Resta made an “under the belt” comment about fellow former Formula 1 driver Johnny Herbert after the Briton disagreed with Nico Rosberg regarding set-up. Rosberg had been talking about Ferrari’s chances of holding off Red Bull during the French Grand Prix, noting that the additional downforce the Italian side run on their car
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Sir Lewis Hamilton claimed his and the Mercedes F1 Team’s best result of the season so far at the French Grand Prix, after crossing the line in second-place at the Circuit Paul Ricard. The seven-time World Champion has now finished on the podium at four consecutive races, with the Brit seemingly now getting the better
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2016 world champion Nico Rosberg has revealed his surprise that Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc have not come together yet during their championship battle. The pair treated fans to some exceptional wheel-to-wheel racing during the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and, while the racing was hard, it was also fair between the two. They
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Huge question marks were raised in 2016 as to why Mercedes decided to swap over their mechanics as Nico Rosberg beat Sir Lewis Hamilton to the title. Hamilton and Rosberg had gone through a bitter rivalry in 2014 and 2015 as they fought for the title, winning 32 of the 38 races between them across
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Sebastian Vettel has once again been called a “hypocrite”, following on from his climate change talk at the recent Canadian Grand Prix. Vettel spoke out against the “climate crime” of “mining tar sands” in Canada, something which has since been deemed hypocritical by Alberta energy minister Sonya Savage. Savage called Vettel out over his climate
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2016 world champion Nico Rosberg believes that Sebastian Vettel and Mick Schumacher would share a more hostile relationship were they to fight each other for the title. Vettel had a close bond with Schumacher’s father and seven-time champion, Michael, and this legacy continued when he formed a close friendship with Mick. The pair have contested
MoreFormer F1 driver Nico Rosberg remains the last team-mate to finish above Sir Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers’ Standings, with it taking everything the German had to complete the somewhat impossible mission. Rosberg achieved the task in 2016, winning the World Championship that year before retiring immediately after. Beating the seven-time World Champion took everything out of
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George Russell has performed remarkably well since joining the Mercedes F1 Team, despite the team’s frustrating first half of the season. Mercedes have struggled with porpoising for the majority of the year so far; however, until the British Grand Prix, Russell was the only driver on the grid to have finished every race in the top five.
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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko believes that race engineers are making life too easy for their drivers at the moment, and he has called for the regulations to be altered. During the race, there are dozens of radio messages exchanged between drivers, engineers and team principals that entail all sorts of different things. The
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