Seventeen F1 world champions

Formula 1 is celebrating its 60th anniversary this weekend in Bahrain and has brought out all the living world champions. Only Kimi Raikkonen and Nelson Piquet are missing.
Thanks to McLaren’s @fifthdriver on twitter here is a sneak peak of the “team photo”
Who is the most legendary here? And who’s the coolest?

Vettel surprises everyone at Bahrain

We hoped that we were in for a season of surprises and it has certainly started well with Sebastian Vettel snatching pole for the Bahrain Grand Prix by a healthy margin over the Ferraris of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso.

Vettel’s team mate Mark Webber could easily have made it an all Red Bull front row, [...]

New teams: are they safe to share the track with?

There has been a lot of discussion today in Bahrain about the new teams and their pace, or lack of it.
Today the fastest car, Nico Rosberg’s Mercedes lapped in 1m 55.409 and the slowest, the Hispania of Bruno Senna managed a 2m 06.968, only just over a second faster than the fastest GP2 time [...]

Ferrari boss on racing Schumacher, tyre and money problems

I had breakfast this morning with Ferrari’s Stefano Domenicali in his office at the track. Well, he invited me for breakfast, but to Italians that means coffee.
The conversation was wide ranging and covered Michael Schumacher’s defection to Mercedes, the new teams, the financial situation in F1 and the serious problem of who will supply tyres [...]

Bahrain latest: Prost becomes a steward and 107% rule could return,

It’s been a busy day at Bahrain, albeit totally lacking in tension. The drivers and teams all seem very calm ahead of the new season. The new teams are understandably a little more edgy, but generally I am amazed how calm everyone is.
That doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been a lot going on. Alain Prost [...]

Schumacher and Rosberg mark out their territory

The first day of the new season kicked off with a trip to a Mercedes dealership on a highway out of Bahrain’s capital Manama, to see Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg.
This was one of those occasions which was more interesting for what it looked like rather than what was said. It was a bit of [...]

VIDEO: What a driver brings to car development

Here on JA on F1, we are always trying to bring content that you the readers have asked for, to answer your questions and help bring you closer to the sport.
One question which we get regularly at this time of year, when the new cars come out for the start of the season, is “How [...]

Lewis Hamilton admits to ‘lots and lots of mistakes’

In a revealing interview with BBC Radio 5 Live this weekend, Lewis Hamliton has admitted that he has made “lots and lots of mistakes in my career, hopefully this will be a year of a lot fewer!”

It’s very unusual to hear a driver admitting to any mistake, let alone lots of them.
It is criticism that [...]

Virgin Racing’s secret: Behind the scenes at Wirth Research

Of the new teams in Formula 1 it looks as though the radical Virgin Racing car is probably going to be the fastest, once it hits its stride, but preparations for the season have been undermined somewhat by reliability problems in testing.
The car has been unable to hold on to its hydraulic fluid and during [...]

Chandhok takes last seat on the F1 grid at HRT

The F1 grid is now full with the announcement that Karun Chandhok will drive for the newly renamed Hispania Racing Team alongside Bruno Senna.
The 26 year old from Chennai becomes the second Indian driver to enter F1 after Narain Karthikeyan, who raced for Jordan in 2005. He is also brings the total of GP2 graduates [...]

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