Formula 1’s manufacturers could be set for an engine freeze from 2021, with Renault putting its weight behind an idea that would provide significant cost benefits to teams. As the FIA, the sport’s chiefs and the teams prepare to finalize F1’s future regulation package, manufacturers have yet to officially commit to Grand Prix racing’s future….
Month: November 2019
Alonso ‘turned down Red Bull offer to return’ – report
Reports in the European media say that two-time world champion Fernando Alonso turned down a recent approach from Red Bull Racing to return to Formula 1 in 2019. Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo says that the team offered Alonso the chance to replace Pierre Gasly for the second half of the season. There had been growing…
Steiner intent on being ‘firmer’ with drivers, mulls team orders
Haas boss Guenther Steiner is ready to impose a hard-line attitude on his drivers after Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen’s repeated on-track clashes. After a contact on the opening lap ruined the pair’s race at Silverstone, and despite a stern warning from Steiner, Grosjean and Magnussen banged wheels again at Hockenheim last weekend. The encounter…
Verstappen happy to finish on podium in Singapore
Max Verstappen declared himself happy with a podium finish in Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix after disappointing outings in Spa and Monza. Red Bull had come into the race as one of the favourites to win, but ultimately never seemed to be fully up to the pace of their rivals at Marina Bay. After qualifying in…
McLaren aiming to ‘reset and refresh’ in Singapore
After a flying start to the 2019 season, McLaren have hit a bumpy patch in recent outings leaving them hoping that they can set things to rights this time out in Singapore. “We go to Singapore looking to reset and refresh following two difficult weekends in Belgium and Italy,” said team principal Andreas Seidl this…
F1 and FIA issue joint statement on Typhoon Hagibis
Formula 1 and the FIA say that all efforts will be made to minimize the disruption to the Japanese Grand Prix schedule as super typhoon Hagibis prepares to hit the country. The massive storm is expected to make landfall in eastern Japan before moving northward on Saturday through Sunday, bringing gale force winds and heavy…
2019 Singapore Grand Prix – Race results
Full race results from the Singapore Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, round 15 of the 2019 Formula 1 season. 2019 Singapore Grand Prix – Race results Pos Driver Team Gap Stops 1 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 61 laps – 1:58:33.667s 1 2 Charles Leclerc Ferrari + 2.641s 1 3 Max Verstappen Red Bull…
U.S.-Backed Turkish Offensive in Syria Targets U.S.-Backed Kurds
Turkey has “launched a major military intervention in Syria,” the Guardian reports, dispatching tanks and warplanes to purportedly reclaim the city of Jarabulus, currently held by the Islamic State (ISIS), and to attack Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. “At 4am this morning, operations started in the north of Syria against terror groups which constantly threaten our…
Save the Starfish: Deoxygenated 'Dead Zones' Threatening Marine Life
Imperiling fish, crabs, squid, sea stars, and myriad other marine creatures, climate change is sapping the oceans of oxygen, according to a new study that warns of widespread deoxygenation within decades. Using models and maps, researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, were able to quantify and differentiate between large-scale…
Gazans on Brink of Further Humanitarian Disaster as Blockade's Battering Goes On
Click:ITELCOND ASUM 500VDC 2200UF Capacitor As the blockade of Gaza—widely denounced as “collective punishment”—marks its ninth anniversary this month, Oxfam is urging the global community to apply pressure on Israel to allow the territory’s residents to exercise their most fundamental human rights. Israel imposed the blockade in 2007 when Hamas gained control of the territory,…