Category: Formula One
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Will ‘Hamilton’ beat Schumacher’s record – and 9 other burning questions for 2020
The great thing about a new Formula 1 season is no one really knows what’s going to happen once the lights go out and the action begins. So before the cars hit the track in Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix next weekend, these are the burning questions we can’t wait to find out the…
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The Winners and Losers of 2020 F1 pre-season testing
The sun has set on pre-season testing for another year, with some teams leaving the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya with a bounce in their step while others are scratching their heads for answers. We pick out the winners and losers from six days of running in Spain…
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Week 2 of pre-season testing: Who will be driving on Day 1 in Spain?
We learnt plenty from last week’s opening pre-season test in Barcelona, but now there’s just three more days of track time before the season proper gets under way in Australia next month.
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10 things to watch for in Week 2 of 2020 pre-season testing
The 2020 F1 season proper is nearly upon us. The first race in Melbourne is now just a few weeks away, but before the cars take to the Albert Park track, they will be back in action at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya this week for three more days of pre-season testing.
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Are Ferrari in trouble after low-key showing at week 1 of testing?
This time last year the Ferrari garage was a happy place to be after the Scuderia’s 2019 car flew in pre-season testing.
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From DAS to the double diffuser: 5 F1 innovations that caught rival teams napping
Mercedes were busy blowing people’s minds at 2020 pre-season testing last week in Barcelona, blindsiding their rivals with their innovative new steering wheel system – known as ‘DAS’, or Dual Axis Steering – which was spotted on the new W11 of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas.
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Mercedes cap off first week of testing with a 1-2 thanks to Bottas flyer on Day 3
Valtteri Bottas’s sensational lap sent him top of the timesheets on the final day of the first week of 2020 pre-season testing as Mercedes took a 1-2 with Lewis Hamilton jumping to second in the afternoon – albeit nearly a second off his team mate’s blistering flying lap.
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Our rivals are faster than us, admits Ferrari boss Binotto
It’s not been the finest start to testing for Ferrari, the red cars looking off the pace compared to rivals Mercedes and Red Bull and their team chief Mattia Binotto admitting he is “not as optimistic” as he was at this stage last year…
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Vettel compares operating Mercedes DAS system to ‘running in flip flops’
The technical talk in the first week of 2020 pre-season testing at Barcelona centred around Mercedes’ innovative and controversial DAS system – and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel appeared both impressed and wary of the device when asked about it at the end of his first day’s running at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
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Pre-season testing Day 2: Raikkonen fastest before he brings out red flags
Kimi Raikkonen’s late surge sent his Alfa Romeo C39 to the top of the charts on the second day of pre-season testing with a fastest lap of 1m17.091s – before he brought out the first red flag of the week having stopped on track with 15 minutes remaining.