On Day Three of Winter Testing for the 2017 Formula One season at the Catalunya circuit, Williams and McLaren were hoping for changes in fortune, while Mercedes were hoping to better the 168 laps they completed on Tuesday. Read our report from day three of the first pre-season test. >> READ THE DAY ONE REPORT << […]
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Winter Testing for the 2017 Formula One season continued today at the Catalunya circuit. Mercedes set the pace on the opening day, while McLaren and Red Bull had ground to make up from car issues on the first day. Read our report from day two of the pre-season test. >> READ THE DAY ONE REPORT <<
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Formula One’s annual Winter Testing period began today. The first of two four day tests takes place from 27th February to 2nd March. Who impressed on the opening day, and who has homework to do? Read our report as the ten teams took their cars to the track for the first time in 2017. The
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There was a sense of the ‘back to school’ feeling as the drivers headed out together ahead of the race on Sunday for their annual photo call. Overnight, mechanics changed Daniel Ricciardo’s gear box incurring him a five-place grid penalty. As the pit-lane opened and the cars made their way around to the grid, Ricciardo
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A rapid Ferrari performance on Friday set Saturday up to be the closest qualifying day of the season so far. Here’s our report from Saturday at the 2017 Russian Grand Prix! Third Practice The sun beamed down upon the Sochi Autodrom as Mercedes looked to extend their run of eighteen races on pole and Ferrari
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Saturday in Barcelona saw early problems for Valtteri Bottas and a close fight between Mercedes and Ferrari for pole. Read about all the action from Qualifying day at Catalunya in our Saturday Report! Practice Three Ahead of Saturday’s action, the FIA announced that the DRS zone would be extended by 100 metres to aid overtaking
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Friday in Spain saw Mercedes head the field by a significant margin, while McLaren’s woes continued and Fernando Alonso played a spot of tennis. Read about all the action from the Practice Sessions in Lights Out’s Friday Report! Practice One Sergey Sirotkin deputised for Jolyon Palmer at Renault, completing ten laps during the session. While
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A washed out day on Friday saw very little running for the teams in a heavily interrupted First Practice session, while the Second Practice session was ultimately abandoned due to the weather. Here’s our Friday Practice report! First Practice Six minutes into the session, the Red Flag came out. The reasoning for the stoppage was that
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As has become the tradition in Monaco, Friday Practice takes place on a Thursday. Mercedes struggled in the afternoon session while Sebastian Vettel set an impressive place. There were also multiple scrapes with the barriers and a few surprise names mixing with the front-runners. Read about all of the action in Lights Out’s Thursday Report!
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There were plenty of meetings with the wall and a mixed up result on Friday in Baku. Read all about it in Lights Out’s Practice Report! Practice One It was certainly a warm start to the day in the unique city of Baku, as F1 cars returned to the city streets. Lance Stroll’s FW40 had
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Formula One is in China for the second round of the 2017 season and the fourteenth running of the Chinese Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit. Lights Out takes a look at the stories to look out for over the weekend. The rain poured in Shanghai on Thursday as the teams and drivers reconvened
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There’s always something special about the Singapore Grand Prix weekend. The beginning of the fly-away season sees the usual rumours about drivers’ futures as the title battle steps up a gear. With just seven race weekends remaining in 2017, the gap between Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel could be cut down as Ferrari look to
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Formula One heads back to Europe for the start of the European season at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. It’s a circuit the drivers know very well as a result of the miles upon miles of Winter Testing which takes place here every year. Torrential rain hit the circuit during the media day on
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Round Six of the 2017 Formula One season takes place on the streets of unmistakable Monaco. Steeped in history at every turn, the Monaco Grand Prix is always one of the highlights of the year. Even if it doesn’t always produce the best racing, it is a spectacle to behold. We take a look at
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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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