Following Formula 1’s first ever eSports Pro Draft, sixteen gamers have been selected to take part in the second edition of Grand Prix racing’s virtual world championship. London’s Gfinity Area hosted the 2018 Pro Draft event, with 66,000 entries back in April dwindling down to the sixteen happy few that will race this year for … Continue reading "F1 teams have selected their 2018 eSports drivers"

Valtteri Bottas knows that he is now confined to a support role at Mercedes, and vows to help Lewis Hamilton win his fifth world championship. While Kimi Raikkonen very much raced as his own man at Monza, likely because he knew he would not be remaining at the Scuderia next season, Bottas perfectly followed Mercedes’ … Continue reading "Bottas now resigned to play support role at Mercedes"

Felipe Massa believes former team mate Fernando Alonso might have extracted more from his outstanding talent without one very negative trait. Massa spent five seasons alongside the Spaniard at Ferrari, between 2010 and 2014, but also had the privilege of racing alongside Michael Schumacher at the Scuderia in 2006. Drawing on his specific insight, the … Continue reading "Alonso as talented as Schumacher, but a divisive figure – Massa"

Haas’ Guenther Steiner believes F1 should impose a cost cap on customer engines to ensure all teams pay a reasonable price for their power units in the future. Formula 1 and the sport’s manufacturers are currently in the final stages of defining the engine rules that shall be introduced in 2021, with hopefully an outcome … Continue reading "Haas’ Steiner sees flat-rate engine cost the way to go for 2021"

Red Bull motorsports consultant Dr Helmut Marko has warned that the team could quit Formula 1 if its new engine partnership with Honda fails to deliver on expectations. Red Bull has been frustrated with the engine situation in F1 for several years. It had announced that it was splitting from Renault in 2015 only to … Continue reading "Red Bull ‘could quit F1’ if Honda fails to deliver"

Williams chief technical officer Paddy Lowe says that new regulations governing front wings in 2019 will have a big impact on racing in Formula 1 next season. That opinion goes against the grain of other leading figures in F1 who suggest that the changes will have minimal effect on overtaking. It’s one of a number … Continue reading "Lowe predicts big impact for new 2019 front wings"

Red Bull motorsport boss Helmut Marko still has one F1 seat available at Toro Rosso, but it won’t be filled by McLaren’s departing driver Stoffel Vandoorne. The 26-year-old is out of a drive for 2019 and had initially eyed a spot at the Faenza-based outfit and Sauber when he was told of his fate by … Continue reading "Red Bull’s Marko offers brutal assessment of Vandoorne"

As he gets reacquainted with the team that gave him his first F1 drive, Kimi Raikkonen believes Sauber has everything its needs to be competitive next year. It’s a homecoming of sorts for the 39-year-old Finn who started his career with Sauber back in 2001. Some seventeen years and 292 Grands Prix later, Raikkonen has … Continue reading "Raikkonen: ‘Sauber has all the tools to build a great car’"

Formula E founder Alejandro Agag says that his championship will be nipping at the heels of F1 over the next five years, and insisted that the all-electric series will eventually end up on top. “I think in five years they are going to start feeling a lot the heat,” Agag said in an interview with … Continue reading "Agag predicts Formula E will challenge F1 in five years"

In what has been called a resounding “victory for the people,” anti-war, anti-austerity socialist Jeremy Corbyn on Friday was elected leader of the British Labour party. Taking 59.5 percent of first-preference votes, the long-shot win is seen as a clear renunciation of the policies currently dominating UK and European politics. According to reports, Corbyn sailed … Continue reading "Challenging War and Austerity, Corbyn Sails to Victory in UK"