Monte Carlo, Monaco, with the track partially prepared The Monaco Grand Prix is absurd. Every year, Formula 1 heads to this tiny principality near the south of France to race around a circuit it has long outgrown. There’s excitement in the air, even though the cars are too big and too fast for the narrow…
Photo: pedrik via CC Max Verstappen and Lando Norris made contact while fighting for the lead of the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix, leaving both of their Formula 1 cars with a puncture and allowing George Russell to pick up his first win of the season. Verstappen had successfully fended off both McLarens in yesterday’s sprint…
Written by Stuart Codling, a longtime motorsport journalist, broadcaster and author (one of whose books I’ve already reviewed), The Life: Monaco Grand Prix is a book about the glamorous Formula One race hosted annually at the Monte Carlo circuit in Monaco. The Life: Monaco Grand Prix Written by Stuart Codling Product Details: Hardcover, 240 pages…
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Photo: Honda Max Verstappen led a 1-2 finish for Red Bull Racing at the 2022 Spanish Grand Prix, marking a turn of fortunes for the reigning champion. Charles Leclerc was comfortably leading the race but his Ferrari engine gave out just behind half distance. This handed control of the race to Verstappen and his teammate…
Nico Rosberg leads Sebastian Vettel at the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix Photo: United Autosports via CC There’s a weird thing that happens every year to Formula 1 fans. Every year, as the richest city in the world gets ready to host the Monaco Grand Prix, fans are practically force-fed digests about its glamor, its prestige,…
Photo: Jake Archibald via CC Since he announced his move to Alfa Romeo, no Formula 1 driver has amassed more points than Valtteri Bottas, who celebrated his first win of the 2021 season at a wet Turkish Grand Prix — a victory the man described as one of his career’s best drives. Max Verstappen, who…
Fans watch the start of the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix Photo: pedrik via CC Less than a month after it was added to the 2021 Formula 1 calendar, the Turkish Grand Prix has already been withdrawn from the season and will be replaced by a second event in Austria. Scheduled to take place on June…
Photo: F1 Esports I only had to click publish on my last article, which called for something exactly like this to happen, to discover that Formula One was officially launching a new F1 Esports Virtual Grand Prix series. It will replace the 2020 races that have been canceled or postponed as a result of the…
Lewis Hamilton won the 2017 United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, and with his victory Mercedes accumulated enough points to win the Formula One World Constructors Championship. It also extended his lead in the championship by a whopping 66 points. With only 75 maximum points still to grab in the upcoming three races, it…
The market is full of automotive racing board games, but few are as distinguished as Wolfgang Kramer’s Auto Racing Series. A collection of titles that utilize similar core game features, the series includes 1990’s NASCAR Daytona 500, which I already reviewed. In the year that Mayfair Games first introduced the United States to Settlers of…
Despite my exhaustion, I watched the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix immediately after coming home from the Indy 500, having had an inkling from social media, but no details, that some controversial event had taken place. What event that would be was somewhat predictable. During Saturday qualifying, Ferrari’s Kimi Räikkönen had taken pole position at the…
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced another event cancelation: the 2020 Chevrolet Detroit… The Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix can stay on Belle Isle. Race organizers… The Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix is in danger of losing its home…
On the podium, from left to right: Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton, and Daniel Ricciardo. Lewis Hamilton did everything he could at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, though time will tell if that was enough. His teammate Nico Rosberg only needs to finish second at each of the three remaining races in Mexico,…
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He wouldn’t be able to drink that champagne had he won at the United States Grand Prix. Yes, it’s happened—Max Verstappen, the 18-year old who made his controversial Formula 1 debut last year and who was racing karts just three years ago, has won the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona, becoming the youngest Grand…
Boring or not, there’s no prettier race than the Monaco Grand Prix Photo: /u/radiomath I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Monaco races are almost always boring. Yes, it’s the most prestigious Grand Prix on the calendar, but that’s the only reason people go to Monaco at all; for the glamour, the heritage,…
Mercedes teammates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg at the 2015 Monaco Grand Prix The Monaco Grand Prix is the most prestigious race in the Formula 1 calendar and indeed one of the most renowned racing events in the world. Yet for all its glamour, heritage, and money, the Monaco Grand Prix is persistently one of…
It may have taken 81 Grand Prix races (and only four behind the wheel of a Mercedes), but Valtteri Bottas has finally achieved the next major milestone in his Formula 1 career: standing on the top step of the podium and taking home the winning trophy. Unfortunately, that was just about the sole highlight to…
Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix port and racetrack Photo: clarkmaxwell via Flickr/CC In this Formula 1 spotlight, we’ll discuss the Monaco Grand Prix, one of the oldest racing events in F1 history. It’s the slowest and narrowest track on the calendar, to the point that passing can be impossible and the race is more heavily influenced…
Ryan Hunter-Reay races in a Chevrolet at the 2012 Detroit Grand Prix Photo: Nic Redhead The Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix can stay on Belle Isle. Race organizers agreed to pay more in fees and cut the amount of time it takes to set up and tear down the track. In return, the Michigan Department of…
Formula 1 has taken a lot of pushback from drivers and others on its “halo” safety device. However, a collision from the Belgium Grand Prix has shown that, at least for driver Charles Leclerc, it’s a good thing that F1 kept with it. Safety Tech: How much do you know about one of your car’s…
Photo: Steve Gregory I have watched Formula One almost nonstop since 1998 and to this day the Monaco Grand Prix remains to me the most curiously popular event on the calendar. The upcoming race in the streets of Monte Carlo will take place less than a week from now and already the media and the…
Photo: Joseph Petrassi Last week, I mentioned that Lewis Hamilton might explode if he lost the 2016 British Grand Prix to Nico Rosberg. I should add that I never really believed he would finish anywhere but at the top of the podium short of a mechanical issue preventing it from happening, as the Brit is…
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Scuderia Toro Rosso has announced that Pierre Gasly, 2016 GP2 champion and member of the Red Bull Junior Team, would take over Daniil Kvyat’s seat at the upcoming Malaysian Grand Prix to race alongside Carlos Sainz Jr. After securing an engine deal with Honda, Toro Rosso had agreed to loan Sainz to Renault, its current…
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Photo: Honda Lewis Hamilton won the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix, but despite the podium looking awfully familiar — Hamilton, Verstappen, and Bottas have shared it a whopping 14 times — it was the result of a great race that bode well for the rest of the Formula 1 season. Having taken pole position, Max Verstappen…
Photo: Artes Max via CC The 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix was a race defined by its retirements, the first of which was caused by the worst motorsport crash I’ve ever seen live — and I was in the crowd during Scott Dixon’s whirlwind crash at the 101st running of the Indy 500. During the commotion…
Renault Sport F1 has announced the 2017 Japanese Grand Prix was Jolyon Palmer’s last Formula One race with the French team and that he would be replaced by Carlos Sainz Jr for the upcoming United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, on October 22. “The Japanese Grand Prix will be my last race for Renault,”…
Takuma Sato leads at the 2019 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama Photo: Honda The 2019 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama, taking place at Barber Motorsports Park, is aptly named, as it was a Honda driver who dominated the event virtually from start to finish. Takuma Sato, who won the 101st running of the…
Photo: Honda Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton were once again in a class of their own at the 2021 United States Grand Prix, completing the race nearly 45 seconds ahead of third-place driver Sergio Pérez. So far this Formula 1 season, at almost every race where reliability or collisions are not a factor, the two…
Photo: Honda The 2021 Belgian Grand Prix was the first race in Formula 1 history to feature zero laps under green flag conditions. Max Verstappen, who started on pole, took his 16th career win by doing little more than follow the safety car for three laps. George Russell, who had started second thanks to changing…
Photo: Honda The 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix was one of the most ridiculously unpredictable Formula 1 races in a long time. It kicked off with carnage as Valtteri Bottas missed his braking point and rear-ended Lando Norris, sending him crashing into Max Verstappen. Bottas, at this point no longer in control of his car, then…
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, on Montreal’s Notre Dame Island, has hosted the Canadian Grand Prix since 1978 Photo: pedrik via CC The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal was canceled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and may be canceled again this year despite appearing on the official 2021 Formula 1 calendar. Earlier today, CBC News…
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Photo: Michael Elleray via CC The country that just hosted the biggest sporting event in the world amid a state of emergency has just announced the 2021 Japanese Grand Prix will not be taking place this October due to “ongoing complexities of the pandemic.” The Japanese Grand Prix was set to be the 17th round…
Nothing like champagne to mix with the sweat after a race. There will be no easy way to summarize this Grand Prix. The weekend was not punctuated but rather flooded by episodes of heavy rain, marked by important safety car periods, and highlighted by excellent driving all around. The race itself was as chaotic as…
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Photo: FORMULA 1 Formula One and the Autodromo Nazionale Monza have agreed to a five-year deal that will see the race track continue to host the Italian Grand Prix until 2024. An F1 statement said it had reached “an agreement in principle for a new five-year deal” and that it hoped to formally sign the…
At the start of the year, Amazon Prime launched a well-produced Formula One documentary called GRAND PRIX Driver, which followed the McLaren Racing team during the off season and pre-season tests of 2017. As an F1 fan, I eagerly and quickly watched the entirety of the disappointingly short series — four episodes in total. But…
It was a mixed weekend for Toro Rosso at the Canadian Grand Prix. Though Pierre Gasly did well in the race, he had taken a grid penalty and started too far back to make it into the points. And his teammate, Brendon Hartley, was involved in a collision on the first lap. But with a…
With the Belgian Grand Prix weekend behind us, the 2024 Formula 1 season has begun its summer break. It will be four weeks before the drivers return to the track, and with 14 of 24 grands prix completed, it’s a great time to look back and evaluate what has so far been one of the…
The F1 track at the Spanish Grand Prix We’ll start with a disclaimer: Formula 1 has a long and rich history, full of heritage and drama and danger and cutting-edge technology and men with enormous legacies. So when we titled this article “A Brief Look into the History of Formula 1,” we really meant a…
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced another event cancelation: the 2020 Chevrolet Detroit… Despite getting banged up in a frightening plane crash last week, retired… Thanks to a joint effort by Google Maps and the Indianapolis Motor… The Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix can stay on Belle Isle. Race organizers… A display featuring 13 classic and modern…
Photo: fuji.tim via CC Lando Norris finished second at the Spanish Grand Prix and showed little of his usual cheer. Since bagging his first-ever win in Miami earlier this year, he has finished second on three occasions — and on each of those occasions, it was title rival Max Verstappen who stood on the top…
Photo: Honda Max Verstappen won the 2022 Japanese Grand Prix and in the process scored his second consecutive Formula 1 World Championship title, joining legends the like of Jim Clark, Alberto Ascari, and Fernando Alonso. But in true F1 fashion, nobody was quite sure whether the young Dutchman would be crowned champion until several minutes…
Photo: Peter Menzel via CC Lando Norris won the 2024 Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday, and given the comfortable 20-second gap he put over home favorite Max Verstappen, one would be forgiven for forgetting he’d only had a single Formula 1 race victory to his name before then. He drove a confident, controlled race worthy…
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