أرشيف وسم ‘ Michael Schumacher ’
Swamps, peculiar pit buildings and some smog. It's on to Round 3 of the championship at the Shanghai International Circuit
Toto Wolff believes Mercedes cannot rest on their past form in Shanghai, ahead of next weekend's Chinese Grand Prix.
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Adrian Sutil stunned the F1 paddock on Sunday by looking so competitive on his return to the sport after a season away. Written off by some after his 2011 assault conviction, the German is back with Force India this season and in Melbourne even led some laps -- a first in his career. "Sutil's performance was more convincing than anything his fellow countryman Michael Schumacher produced in (the last) three years," Independent newspaper correspondent David Tremayne wrote. Sutil ultimately finished seventh in Melbourne as his […]
Mercedes is bidding to shed its "conservative" image, new director and team co-owner Toto Wolff has revealed. Over the winter, it has been all change at the German team; swapping Michael Schumacher with Lewis Hamilton, Norbert Haug with Austrian Wolff and Niki Lauda, and soon set to push ahead with McLaren's ex technical chief Paddy Lowe. "At Mercedes, we no longer want to be so conservative," Wolff is quoted by Austrian television ORF 1. "The new Mercedes (road car) models are young and sporty." He […]
Mark Webber has said that he would like to finally finish on the podium in the Australian Grand Prix. Webber has finished on the podium thirty-four times in his F1 career but has yet to score a top three in his home race, with a best finish of fourth in 2012. "I've been on the podiums at most tracks around the world and have won at quite a few circuits and Melbourne is one which I would like to add to that," he said. "I […]
Unable to find a race seat for his F1 return, Jaime Alguersuari has signed up for a season of kart racing. Spain's El Confidencial reports that the former Toro Rosso driver will combine his continuing role as Pirelli test driver with a seat in the powerful KZ kart category of the European championship. "The truth is that I miss competition and so I will compete in what most resembles a Formula One car," said the 22-year-old. "I don't know if I will return to Formula […]
Nico Rosberg thinks Mercedes' 2013 car is a potential winner. The German won last April's Chinese grand prix, but thereafter the Brackley based team suffered a collapse in car development and fell badly off the pace. New teammate Lewis Hamilton has been playing down expectations following the new W04's launch, but Rosberg - who has driven for Mercedes alongside Michael Schumacher since 2010 - is more outwardly confident. "I just want to win races," he told Finland's Turun Sanomat newspaper, "and I am very confident […]
Having shown darkly-lit 'sneak preview' images on its website that triggered a server meltdown, and scheduling a launch event for the afternoon, photographers at Jerez scrambled on Monday morning to take the first unofficial shots of Mercedes' new W04. At the same time, Lewis Hamilton was being filmed for promotional purposes trackside, as he captured Nico Rosberg's debut laps on a Blackberry mobile phone -- a gratuitous plug for the team's new on-car sponsor. His 2013 teammate, Rosberg, was lapping on the day before official […]
Felipe Massa has said that he considered walking away from Formula One following a difficult start to the 2012 season. On the back of an underwhelming 2010 and 2011, Massa scored just two points from the opening five races in 2012 while team-mate Fernando Alonso led the championship. "Yeah. I thought about so many things. I thought maybe I was finished," he told BBC Sport. "I thought about not staying in Ferrari." "I did not know what would happen. So many things were inside my […]
We catch up with Pirelli Motorsport Director Paul Hembery at the Autosport Show
Kimi Raikkonen has clarified his aversion to sophisticated Formula One simulator technology, insisting he simply "learns nothing" at the computerised wheel. An avowed fan of idol James Hunt's bygone days, 2007 world champion Raikkonen has always sounded unenthusiastic when asked about the simulator technology that has replaced F1's former days of expensive track testing. That sparked rumours that, like Michael Schumacher, simulators give the famous Finn motion sickness, or that perhaps the former Ferrari and McLaren driver is claustrophobic. Raikkonen's new team, Lotus, has now […]