| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, June 27th 2014, 14:27 GMT |
Mercedes' Niki Lauda has brushed off suggestions that Lewis Hamilton is cracking under the pressure of an intense Formula 1 title fight after another costly qualifying mistake in Austria
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, June 27th 2014, 09:22 GMT |
Renault is adamant it can satisfy Red Bull's demands for improvement, but it may have to wait until Formula 1's engine freeze is partly lifted this winter to do so
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, June 27th 2014, 10:51 GMT |
Plans to introduce standing restarts after safety car periods in Formula 1 next season have sparked debate over whether sporting parity and safety is being sacrificed for 'the show'
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, June 27th 2014, 09:22 GMT |
Renault is adamant it can satisfy Red Bull's demands for improvement, but it may have to wait until Formula 1's engine freeze is partly lifted this winter to do so
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, June 27th 2014, 10:51 GMT |
Plans to introduce standing restarts after safety car periods in Formula 1 next season have sparked debate over whether sporting parity and safety is being sacrificed for 'the show'
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, June 27th 2014, 14:27 GMT |
Mercedes' Niki Lauda has brushed off suggestions that Lewis Hamilton is cracking under the pressure of an intense Formula 1 title fight after another costly qualifying mistake in Austria
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, June 26th 2014, 15:13 GMT |
Nico Rosberg sees nothing wrong in him and Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Lewis Hamilton keeping information back from each other, despite their bosses' concerns about a lack of transparency.
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| Thursday, June 26th 2014, 15:03 GMT |
This weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed will be broadcast live on AUTOSPORT.com.
The 2014 event - the theme of which is 'Addicted to winning' - will feature the usual mix of machinery and star names spanning generations of motorsport, and fans will be able to watch the cars in action on the famous Goodwood hillclimb, as well as see interviews with the biggest names in attendance.
The day Heidfeld stunned Goodwood
2007 Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen makes his Goodwood bow at this year's event, where he will be reunited with the Ferrari F2007 that he took to the world title.
Raikkonen will be joined in action by fellow active world champions Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. Both will drive contemporary F1 cars from their respective teams, while Button will also get behind the wheel of Niki Lauda's 1984 title-winning McLaren MP4/2.
Grand Prix racing's spectacular history will be represented, and the modern-day stars will be joined by heroes from the past including Jackie Stewart, Stirling Moss, John Surtees, Emerson Fittipaldi and Damon Hill - who will all jump into the cockpits of classic machinery.
The Festival of Speed is always about far more than just Formula 1, and this year the worlds of endurance racing, IndyCar, rallying and motorcycles are as well-represented as ever.
The live video coverage will cover every aspect of the weekend in detail, so even those who are unable to attend the event this year won't miss a thing.
| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, June 26th 2014, 16:35 GMT |
Formula 1 will introduce standing restarts after safety car periods from next season, after the FIA ratified a number of rule changes for 2015.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, June 25th 2014, 13:21 GMT |
The Red Bull Formula 1 team has launched a full investigation into why its performance at the Austrian Grand Prix was so poor.
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, June 25th 2014, 14:19 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team's upsurge in form over the past two races should not be taken as a sign it will be that competitive for the rest of the season, according to rival McLaren.
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, June 25th 2014, 15:22 GMT |
Mercedes believes rival Red Bull deserved to enjoy a stronger showing at the Austrian Grand Prix, and that its poor performance was bad for Formula 1.
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| By Dieter Rencken and Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, June 24th 2014, 13:11 GMT |
Red Bull boss Christian Horner believes that the only way for effective cost control rules to work in Formula 1 is if the teams are not involved in agreeing them.
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, June 24th 2014, 11:55 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton lost the Austrian Grand Prix with crucial errors in qualifying and Formula 1 title rival Nico Rosberg deserved to beat him, according to Mercedes boss Toto Wolff.
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, June 24th 2014, 15:16 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team believes a sequence of small errors were to blame for Felipe Massa not converting pole position into a better result at the Austrian Grand Prix.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, June 21st 2014, 17:36 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team is adamant that it has not sacrificed its race pace after successfully locking out the front row at the Austrian Grand Prix.
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| Saturday, June 21st 2014, 17:58 GMT |
Sergio Perez and Max Chilton's penalties carried over from the Canadian Grand Prix are the only changes to the Formula 1 grid in Austria.
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| By Ben Anderson | Saturday, June 21st 2014, 18:01 GMT |
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff reckons Formula 1 rival Williams deserved to lock out the Austrian Grand Prix front row, because it handled changing track conditions better than anyone else
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, June 20th 2014, 17:18 GMT |
The Toro Rosso Formula 1 team has been given a suspended 10,000 Euro fine for running a set of extra tyres outside the permitted window in Austrian Grand Prix practice
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, June 20th 2014, 17:30 GMT |
Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn says Formula 1 cost cuts agreed this week have not gone far enough
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, June 19th 2014, 18:13 GMT |
The FIA is ready to ease back on driving standard investigations from the Austrian Grand Prix in a bid to make drivers more willing to battle hard, AUTOSPORT has learned
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| By Edd Straw and Ben Anderson | Thursday, June 19th 2014, 17:45 GMT |
The Mercedes Formula 1 team has made changes to the cooling of its control electronics system to prevent a repeat of the problem that cost it victory in Canada.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, June 20th 2014, 07:07 GMT |
Formula 1 is set for standing starts from the grid following safety cars in 2015, AUTOSPORT can reveal
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, June 13th 2014, 11:38 GMT |
Nico Rosberg thinks extending his Formula 1 championship lead in Canada was not good enough, because Mercedes should not have allowed anyone else to win in the first place.
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, June 13th 2014, 14:52 GMT |
Ferrari is "behind the curve" in developing its Formula 1 car this year despite making constant improvements, according to team principal Marco Mattiacci
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| By Jonathan Noble | Sunday, June 15th 2014, 05:30 GMT |
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has asked Bernie Ecclestone to call Formula 1's key figures together to discuss its future, amid concerns the sport has lost its way
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, June 12th 2014, 09:37 GMT |
Formula 1 design genius Adrian Newey has warned that the sport faces 'grave danger' if it does not properly sort out future engine performance equality rules.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, June 12th 2014, 09:55 GMT |
The McLaren Formula 1 team is confident that the update package it is bringing to the Austrian Grand Prix will help deliver a good step forward in performance.
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, June 12th 2014, 10:23 GMT |
Ferrari did not make an approach to sign Formula 1 design wizard Adrian Newey from rival team Red Bull, according to new team principal Marco Mattiacci.
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, June 10th 2014, 10:04 GMT |
Felipe Massa says the Williams Formula 1 team missed a "big opportunity" to win the Canadian Grand Prix due to a problem at his first pitstop.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, June 10th 2014, 11:57 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton insists he cannot count on team-mate Nico Rosberg having car problems if he is to get back on top of the Formula 1 standings.
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, June 10th 2014, 15:15 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen says he cannot explain why he is struggling to be consistent driving Ferrari's Formula 1 car this season.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, June 9th 2014, 14:37 GMT |
Force India believed it was set to win the Canadian Grand Prix before the brake problems that hampered Sergio Perez near the end.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, June 9th 2014, 12:50 GMT |
The Red Bull and McLaren Formula 1 teams have agreed to end their legal dispute over aerodynamicist Dan Fallows
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| By Ben Anderson and Dieter Rencken | Monday, June 9th 2014, 15:33 GMT |
Williams believes Force India was irresponsible not to retire Sergio Perez before his crash with Felipe Massa in the Canadian Grand Prix, a charge Perez has slammed as "misguided".
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, June 8th 2014, 23:36 GMT |
Fernando Alonso feels he was lucky to score so many points in the Canadian Grand Prix, after another difficult race for the Ferrari Formula 1 team
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, June 9th 2014, 00:24 GMT |
Felipe Massa has branded Formula 1 rival Sergio Perez "dangerous" after the crash that took them both out on the final lap of the Canadian Grand Prix
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| By Ben Anderson | Saturday, June 7th 2014, 22:06 GMT |
Williams Formula 1 drivers Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas feel they both missed a golden chance to beat Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull in qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, June 7th 2014, 22:07 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton blamed himself for losing out to Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg in the fight for pole position at the Canadian Grand Prix
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, June 7th 2014, 22:36 GMT |
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff thinks it nonsense to suggest that Formula 1 team-mates Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton need to be friends
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, June 4th 2014, 12:08 GMT |
Fernando Alonso is unsure whether Ferrari can close the gap to Formula 1 pacesetter Mercedes at the Canadian Grand Prix, because development of his car has been inconsistent.
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| By Edd Straw | Wednesday, June 4th 2014, 13:53 GMT |
Force India deputy chief Bob Fernley is confident the major upgrade planned for July's British Grand Prix can keep it in contention for fourth in the Formula 1 constructors' championship
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, June 4th 2014, 16:45 GMT |
A number of Formula 1 drivers have urged Pirelli to make its tyres softer, amid complaints the current rubber is too hard for the 2014 cars
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, June 2nd 2014, 09:40 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen feels collisions during his 2014 Formula 1 campaign have masked how well he has driven so far on his Ferrari return.
The Finn driver lies well adrift of third-placed team-mate Fernando Alonso in the drivers' championship after six races, but he was on course to beat the Spaniard for the first time this year in the Monaco Grand Prix until a collision with Max Chilton's Marussia spoiled his race.
Raikkonen was also compromised by contact in Malaysia and Bahrain earlier this year, and he reckons incidents like this have made his personal performances look worse than they actually have been.
"I have driven well many times, but there's always been something going wrong in the races - like punctures from other people hitting me - and it's just never come together really," Raikkonen said, when asked by AUTOSPORT if the Monaco GP was his best drive of the season.
Massa: Raikkonen's struggles no surprise
"It's a shame. Again we had a good position [in Monaco] but got a puncture so it's just bad luck.
"Small things go wrong and make a massive difference in the end."
The 2007 F1 world champion is still not fully comfortable with the handling of the F14 T, but he reckons more work and a bit more luck will turn his difficult season around.
"Once we get a good feeling with things I'm sure it's going to be a lot better," Raikkonen added.
"But until we get the results and things fixed we have to keep fighting and hopefully be a bit more lucky in the future."
| By Ben Anderson | Monday, June 2nd 2014, 10:09 GMT |
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff is convinced his team can control the simmering rivalry between its Formula 1 drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.
The 2014 F1 title rivals have already been rebuked for breaking team orders and using more powerful engine settings while battling on track this season, before the Monaco Grand Prix furore that led to the two drivers refusing to speak to each other on the podium.
Wolff accepted allowing his drivers to fight each other on track would make things more difficult for the team, but insisted Mercedes could prevent the rivalry getting out of hand.
When asked whether Mercedes could keep a lid on the simmering tensions between its drivers, Wolff said: "Yes. Absolutely. They are part of a very large organisation and I have 110 per cent confidence that it will not be to the detriment of the team."
GARY ANDERSON: How Mercedes must manage its drivers
Wolff said Mercedes also "owed it to the fans" to continue to allow Hamilton and Rosberg to race each other.
"This is a bit more stressful for the team to manage, but I don't want a situation where we just freeze the order throughout the race - that is not what F1 is about," Wolff added.
"Therefore we have to manage the consequences.
"We have seen in the past some very famous team principals with two very competitive drivers who were fighting for the championship, and each of the situations has a certain charm.
"In our case we adopted the philosophy of letting them race, which as a consequence means that management is a bit more difficult.
"[But] our team comes first, and we will never accept an individual putting themselves above the team.
"Both of them know that, accept that, and have adopted that philosophy."
Hamilton said via social media on Friday saying he and Rosberg had put their Monaco issues behind them.
| By Ben Anderson | Monday, June 2nd 2014, 15:40 GMT |
McLaren should make a step forward in this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix, because its Formula 1 car will suit the Montreal circuit better than recent venues, according to Eric Boullier
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, May 30th 2014, 10:49 GMT |
Ferrari needs to give its engineers more space to be creative if it wants to develop winning Formula 1 cars, according to technical director James Allison.
The Scuderia has not won a race for over a year and last captured a title in 2008.
Former champion Alain Prost said recently that traditionally successful F1 outfits like Ferrari and McLaren needed to rethink their approach to the sport, after being consistently outwitted by younger teams such as Red Bull and Mercedes in recent years.
Eric Boullier has begun implementing a recovery plan for the Woking-based squad, while Allison, who joined Ferrari from Lotus at the end of last year, said the Italian squad needed to put plans in place to allow its engineers to innovate without fear of failure.
"Creativity and originality are really important parts of being competitive," explained Allison.
"However, there's nothing magic.
"If you want creativity in your car you have to plan for it and give space to the people to bring their creativity forward.
"If you force them to operate with their backs against the wall, up against deadlines that are very, very tight, then there's no time for them to think about how they might approach something differently, because they only have one option - that's to give you something they know will work.
"There is a wealth of talent at Ferrari - the experience and quality of the people on the technical side is the match of any team - it's a matter of giving them the space and the encouragement to do unusual things, and know that if they fail there's still time to put a backup plan in place."
Allison said Ferrari had already changed "significantly" since he joined the team, but conceded the results of that change would take time to pay off.
"This is a sport that kills you if you're complacent," he added.
"There's a significant amount of organisational change that's happened since I arrived, there will be more as we realise how to do things better in the future, and there will be more after that.
"I hope some of the really key foundations of what I'm trying to do were put in place some months ago and will pay off increasingly over time."
| By Ben Anderson | Friday, May 30th 2014, 14:16 GMT |
Simona de Silvestro says she has encountered no gender discrimination in motorsport during her rise to a Formula 1 role with Sauber.
The former IndyCar racer has given up her race seat for an affiliate role with the Hinwil-based F1 squad for this year, which includes testing in a two-year old Sauber C31.
She reckons most racing teams are more concerned with how fast a driver is, rather than whether they are male or female, and that the lack of top-level female drivers is due to a relative dearth of girls competing in the lower tiers compared to boys.
"If we look in karts there's maybe 100 boys racing and maybe three or four girls so the ratio is definitely at the smaller end," she said when asked by AUTOSPORT if she had encountered gender bias during her rise through the ranks.
"In general racing to get to a high level is difficult whether you are a boy or a girl.
"You have to prove yourself and there are so many drivers.
"Every driver on the planet wants to get to F1 and there are only 22 seats.
"I've never felt it was tougher or different, because I think the important thing is to prove you can be as fast, and if you are winning races or upfront people just consider you a race car driver."
A female driver has not raced in F1 since Lella Lombardi finished 12th in the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix, though others have attempted to qualify.
De Silvestro said she felt no extra pressure or expectation to succeed as a woman in F1, if she graduates to a race seat as planned.
"I don't think it's pressure or expectation; to me the important thing is that I show we can be competitive and up until now I think I've been able to do that in my career," she added.
"Until IndyCar I've always won races and always been up front. Those are important criteria, and if I get the chance to go into F1 I want to do the same thing - show that we can be as fast as the guys. That's the key."
De Silvestro also rubbished suggestions that Sauber having a female team boss in Monisha Kaltenborn might be an advantage to her.
"I don't think it helps [that] I'm a girl, but it's the first time I've had a female boss, so it is different," de Silvestro said.
"What she has seen in me is that I really want this, that I really want to make it happen.
"I don't think it changes anything because at the end of the day I'm here to work."
| By Ben Anderson | Friday, May 30th 2014, 16:50 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton says he has spoken to Formula 1 title rival Nico Rosberg following their falling out at the recent Monaco Grand Prix, and says they are still friends.
Tension between the two Mercedes drivers has been rising since the Spanish Grand Prix earlier this month, where Hamilton reportedly used a more powerful engine mode to repel Rosberg's attack for the win late in the race, forcing an apology from the Briton afterwards.
The relationship between the two team-mates broke down further at last weekend's Monaco GP, where Rosberg took the escape road at Mirabeau in the dying moments of qualifying, bringing out yellow flags and denying Hamilton the chance to snatch pole.
Hamilton insinuated that Rosberg did this deliberately and refused to speak to his team-mate on the podium after finishing second to him in the race, leading to criticism from Mercedes executive Niki Lauda.
Mercedes has moved to play down comparisons of the rivalry to the bitter feud between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna in the late 1980s and early '90s, and Hamilton said he had since spoken to his team-mate to clear the air.
Posting a picture on Twitter of the two on unicycles from their younger days, Hamilton said: "We've been friends a long time, and as friends we have our ups and downs.
"Today we spoke and we're cool, still friends #noproblem".
