Month: November 2019

Daniel Ricciardo isn’t pinning his hopes on his RB13’s latest evolution acting as an instant springboard to the winner’s circle. Much is expected of the latest aerodynamic upgrade package to come out of Red Bull’s Milton Keynes engineering department, but even if the changes produce a positive impact, the team will still be left chasing…

F1 legend Sir Jackie Stewart is putting his money on Sebastian Vettel to win the world championship this year, rather than Lewis Hamilton. With three wins achieved so far – in Australia, Bahrain and Monaco – the Ferrari driver leads his Mercedes rival by 25 points, or one clear win, in the Drivers’ standings. “Sebastian…

Teams running Renault power in 2018 will hopefully get a boost in qualifying as the manufacturer works on delivering a special engine mode which its rivals already have. Renault’s progress on the engine front has put its power unit almost at the same level as Mercedes and Ferrari, at least on race day. In qualifying…

Pascal Wehrlein’s future in F1 appears to be far from guaranteed, with an extension of his stay at Sauber in 2018 very unlikely. Thanks to his close relationship to Sauber’s owners, Marcus Ericsson has a very good chance of remaining with the Swiss outfit. But the team’s extension of its contract with Ferrari also implies…

Esteban Ocon will give himself a fresh start at the Red Bull Ring next weekend, leaving behind the tensions which lingered in the aftermath of a complicated race in Baku. The Force India driver finished P6 in Azerbaijan, wrestling is way into the points after a run-in with team mate Sergio Perez which left the…

Think of it as the true end of the beginning.  Last week, Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, the final member of the 12-man crew of the Enola Gay, the plane (named after its pilot’s supportive mother) that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died at age 93.   When that first A-bomb left its bomb bay at…

Sauber boss Monisha Kaltenborn believes technology has become far too prominent and complex in Formula 1, and too difficult for the average fan to understand. The advent of the hybrid engine in F1 in 2014 ushered in an impressive era of technical sophistication which has yielded outstanding results in terms of performance, but also a…

Twitter says it tested the “hide reply” function for months in the U.S., Canada and Japan. Twitter is letting users become their own moderators. The company announced Thursday that it has rolled out a new feature allowing users to hide replies to their tweets. “Everyone should feel safe and comfortable while talking on Twitter,” said…

“The quest for bioenergy at a meaningful scale is both unrealistic and unsustainable,” says a new report from the World Resources Institute that calls into question Western governments’ support for energy policies that encourage large-scale conversion of plants into fuel. The study, “Avoiding Bioenergy Competition for Food Crops and Land” (pdf), published Thursday, is a…

Joseph Scott Pemberton, a U.S. Marine, has been charged by Philippines prosecutors with murder for allegedly killing Jennifer Laude, a 26-year-old transgender Filipina woman, in October of this year. Laude was brutally beaten and murdered in the port city of Olongapo on October 2 and Pemberton was the last individual seen with her in the…