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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The Singapore Grand Prix was nothing short of disastrous for Sebastian Vettel’s hopes of claiming the 2017 World Championship. Lights Out asks – is the Ferrari driver’s championship already over with six races remaining? Vettel’s bold defensive move on Max Verstappen off the start line during Sunday’s Grand Prix may be looked back on as
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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, The final Malaysia Grand Prix didn’t fail to serve up the healthy dose of drama which we’ve come to expect from the Sepang International Circuit over its nineteen year history. The drama started on Friday with Romain Grosjean’s exploits with a loose drain cover. The Frenchman was lucky to escape without injury from
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Dear Reader, While Ferrari fell apart once again in Japan, Lewis Hamilton pulled away. With only 100 points left on the table in 2017, Hamilton’s now 59 point lead makes him champion-elect at the next round of the season. Unbeatable in Qualifying and unreachable in the Grand Prix (even if Max Verstappen put in a
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Dear Reader, Fortunes change pretty quickly in Formula One, and this weekend has been a perfect example of how everything changes so fast in this sport. From Red Bull raging on Friday, Sebastian looked supreme on Saturday before Hamilton put in an untouchable performance on Sunday. It was a race in which Vettel was supposed
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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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McLaren have announced that Fernando Alonso will compete in the 2018-2019 superseason of the World Endurance Championship. Fernando will join the Toyota Gazoo Racing team, alongside former F1 drivers Sebastian Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima, with Anthony Davidson stepping aside in order for the Spaniard to join. He’ll get his first taste of the Le Mans
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Formula One has announced that it will stop using Grid Girls for the upcoming 2018 season. The tradition of using Grid Girls to stand in front of the cars and hold the drivers’ flags and/or race numbers has been long standing in Formula One. Bosses have tried other approaches in recent years, such as at
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Formula One has revealed a revised weekend schedule for the 2018 season. All of the 21 Grands Prix on this year’s calendar will begin at ten-past the hour, instead of on the hour. The move is to help broadcasters in areas such as America where coverage begins on the hour. F1 bosses say the move
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Lance Stroll has said that Felipe Massa gave him ‘no guidance’ during his first season of Formula One. Speaking to Autosport, the Canadian driver said he does not understand why Massa was perceived to be a mentor to him: “I don’t think I had any guidance from him last year, whatsoever. He was a team-mate
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Formula One and the FIA have announced a new initiative which will see Grid Kids replace Grid Girls for 2018. The organsation says the partnership is more ‘relevant’ to the modern day F1 audience than the former Grid Girls tradition. The children invited to stand beside the cars on the grid will be young karters.
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Robert Kubica will return to action at a Formula One weekend for the first time since 2010 when he partakes in Free Practice 1 for the 2018 Spanish Grand Prix. The Polish driver, who suffered life-changing injuries in a rally crash in February 2011, will make three appearances with Williams throughout the season. The first
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Lewis Hamilton says he expects to sign a new Mercedes contract before the first race of the 2018 season. The four-time World Champion’s current contract is due to expire at the end of this season, but Hamilton says both he and the team are ‘committed’ to one another. Hamilton said: ‘Toto knows that I know
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