Ferrari team principal, Mattia Binotto, was unmoved by 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg’s suggestion that changes need to be made to Ferrari following more blunders at the Dutch Grand Prix. Having started third, Carlos Sainz had started to fall back into the clutches of Sir Lewis Hamilton and, going onto lap 12, the Italian side
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2016 world champion Nico Rosberg has affirmed that Alpine will not need Pierre Gasly to be best friends with Esteban Ocon if they sign him from AlphaTauri. Gasly has a contract with the Faenza-based squad until the end of 2023, but he will not be moving up to Red Bull after that due to Sergio
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It’s been 47 years since a female last took part in a Formula 1 race, with Lella Lombardi having scored half a point at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix. Lombardi and Maria Teresa de Filippis are the only two female drivers to have taken part in an F1 race, with three other women having tried but ultimately
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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
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