From Daniel Ricciardo’s redemption to Charles Leclerc’s unwanted statistic and Kimi Raikkonen’s Monaco paralysis. Here are all the best stats and facts from the 2018 Monaco Grand Prix weekend! It was a perfect weekend for Daniel Ricciardo. For the first time in his career, he dominated the weekend, setting the fastest lap in all three […]
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Before the 2018 Monaco Grand Prix weekend began, I posted five prediction polls on the Lights Out twitter account. How many of the questions did you get right? Find out below! 1. How much faster will the pole time be than last year? 1. Last year's pole time was a 1:12.178. How many seconds quicker
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Red Bull arrived in F1 as the cool new kids on the block in 2005. Thirteen years, 56 wins, 150 podiums and 8 championships later – the team will celebrate their 250th race appearance at the 2018 Monaco Grand Prix. Red Bull bought the Jaguar team back in 2004 and began competing in Formula One
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Who are your top three current F1 drivers? We want to know which of the three drivers on the current grid are your favourites. Vote below, and let us know why you’ve voted for them on Twitter: @LightsOutF1Blog! [socialpoll id=”2478475″]
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Lewis Hamilton picked up a new catchphrase last year, as he seemed to say the fans at every track F1 visited were the ‘best fans’. So, our question to you is… at how many races in 2018 will the four-time World Champion pull out the ‘best fans’ speech? It can be at any point of
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If Daniel Ricciardo makes it on to a podium, you’re near enough guaranteed to see a now mandatory ‘shoey’ being performed. So our question to you is: how many times will a shoey be performed on an F1 podium this season? It can be by any driver at any Grand Prix, but it has to
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We all know lap times don’t matter too much in Winter Testing – but the lap count is perhaps more significant. Below you can see which drivers and teams did the most (and least) laps on each day of the tests and which drivers and teams did the most laps in total over the four
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Just 16 laps were run on the third day of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Read all about it in Lights Out’s Day 3 Report! The session was scheduled to start at 9am local time, but the conditions meant that the medical helicopter was unable to fly, so the start of the day’s
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There was rain, there was snow and there was limited running on the second day of Winter Testing ahead of the 2018 F1 season. Read all about it in Lights Out’s Day 2 report! Driving in today’s test were Valtteri Bottas for Mercedes, Sebastian Vettel for Ferrari, Max Verstappen for Red Bull, Esteban Ocon for Force
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We all know lap times don’t matter too much in Winter Testing – but the lap count is perhaps more significant. Below you can see which drivers and teams did the most (and least) laps on each day of the second test and which drivers and teams did the most laps in total over the
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Formula One returned with the first day of Winter Testing ahead of the 2018 season. There was early drama for McLaren, an impressive showing from Honda and mixed weather conditions. Read all about it in Lights Out’s Day 1 report! The first day of Winter Testing for 2018 was preceded by three teams officially unveiling
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Sebastian Vettel’s surprising Australian Grand Prix victory came as a result of a combination of factors, including Ferrari strategy, the timing of the Virtual Safety Car and a Mercedes software glitch. Lights Out investigates where the first race of the 2018 season was won and lost. The first significant factor in Sebastian Vettel’s victory on
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Dear Reader, The 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix had all the makings of a show-stopper after Saturday’s Qualifying session. Sebastian Vettel took his first pole of the season and had a quick Kimi Raikkonen alongside him on the first row. Valtteri Bottas was looking to make up for his misdemeanours in Australia from third on the
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Dear Reader, Isn’t it great to have Formula One back? It’s been a long winter of waiting and Melbourne certainly offered up an intriguing curtain raiser for the 2018 season. For the second year in a row, Sebastian Vettel pitted and emerged ahead of Lewis Hamilton during the Australian Grand Prix to go on and
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Dear Reader, What. A. Race. For two weekends in a row we’ve been treated to a spectacle. For all the doubts after Australia about the quality of the show, Formula One is looking better than ever after three rounds in 2018. So much happened in the Chinese Grand Prix that it’s difficult to know where
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Before the start of Winter Testing, I posted five prediction polls on the Lights Out twitter account. How many of the questions did you get right? Find out below! 1. Which team will be fastest in the first week? 1. Which team will have set the fastest time by the end of the first week
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Williams will lose their title sponsor Martini at the end of the 2018 season. The news comes as the Bacardi Group – who own the Martini brand -will end their involvement in Formula One after their Williams contract comes to an end. Claire Williams has said that the team’s young driver line-up of Lance Stroll
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Former F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone has a radical idea for shaking up Formula 1 – by making it an all-electric series. The 87 year-old multi-billionaire – whose previous ideas for shaking up proceedings have included allowing cars to take shortcuts and using sprinkler systems to create random wet races – has said the sport could
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