Both Carlos and Nico Hülkenberg were inside the top five all day at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, with Nico fourth fastest in the morning and fifth fastest in the afternoon. Alan Permane, Sporting Director - Technical programme, noted that in FP1, both drivers ran exclusively with the Hypersoft (pink) Pirelli tyres. He also noted that in FP2 Carlos ran with the Supersoft (red) ......read more

Renault Sport Formula One Team confirmed today that Daniel Ricciardo will join the team from the 2019 season. He will team up with current driver Nico Hülkenberg. Twenty-nine-year-old Daniel, who hails from Perth, Australia, joins Renault Sport Formula One Team for the next two seasons. Daniel has secured seven Grands Prix wins and stepped onto the podium 29 times. He is already ......read more

Fresh from the Italian Grand Prix, Ferrari Racing Team drivers Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Räikkönen and Antonio Giovinazzi have swapped their scarlet F1 race car for a spin in the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrofoglio, the marque’s most powerful production car ever made. A thrilling film shows the three Ferrari drivers behind the wheel of the Giulia Quadrifoglio – which can achieve a top ......read more

Following an incident at the recent Azerbaijan Grand Prix involving a collision between Car 5 (Sebastian Vettel) and Car 44 (Lewis Hamilton), Sebastian Vettel was today invited to attend a meeting at the FIA’s Paris headquarters. He was accompanied by his Team Principal Maurizio Arrivabene. He reviewed the incident together with a panel comprised of FIA Deputy President for Sport ......read more

Until last year TOTAL used to be a long-year lubricant partner of the Renault Formula One Team, before TOTAL decided to focus more on soccer sponsoring rather than Formula One sponsoring and started sponsoring popular championships like the 2017 African Cup. As a consequence of TOTAL stepping out of F1, BP and Renault Sport Racing have today announced a new partnership which will see ......read more

Renault e.dams opened season three of the FIA Formula E Championship in emphatic fashion with Sébastien Buemi taking his seventh career Formula E win and Nico Prost working his way back through the field to finish fourth in the HKT Hong Kong ePrix. The team leaves Hong Kong with 37 points in the Team Championship, ahead of ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport and Andretti Formula E who both have ......read more

A couple of weeks ago we published an article on how the Pirelli radio show on Mega FM 92.7 is one of the most unprofessional radio shows in Egypt, and that the marketing department of Pirelli Egypt is one of the most unprofessional marketing departments we have ever witnessed. And although Pirelli Egypt marketing manager Mohamed Magdy kept on defending his engagement and sponsoring ......read more

A couple of weeks ago some German and British media reported that Mr. Bernie Ecclestone, also known as Mr. F1, wanted to discuss with some F1 team principals and team owners how Formula 1 could be made more popular. And although the Formula 1 series is quite well-known in Europe and some parts of Asia and the Americas, it never really was able to kick-off in the Middle East and ......read more

Those traveling to Spielberg (Austria) today will surely enjoy a very interesting DTM race today, as Mercedes-Benz DTM driver Robert Wickens (FREE MAN'S WORLD Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) kicked off the second half of the 2014 DTM season with a pole position. The Canadian posted the fastest time of 1:25.175 minutes in qualifying for the sixth race of the season in Spielberg, Austria. This ......read more

After each Formula 1 race in this 2013 season, I was very surprised to see Renault and Renault Motorsport not paying any attention to increasing the public and media awareness in the Middle East and North Africa about F1 in general and the success of Renault in F1 in specific. Especially after some successful races for Renault, such as the 2013 USA GP, were Renault-powered cars locked ......read more

Red Bull driver and newly-crowned world champion Sebastian Vettel has won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, starting on the P Zero Yellow soft compound, before running two stints on the P Zero White medium. The majority of drivers started the race on the soft tyre. The exceptions were McLaren’s Jenson Button, the Williams of Valtteri Bottas, Sauber’s Esteban Gutierrez, Force India’s ......read more

Infiniti Red Bull Racing and Renaultsport F1 today secured their fourth consecutive Constructors' World Championship title. In 2013 the hugely successful partnership has scored 10 wins, 8 pole positions, 10 fastest laps and 470 points to date. It is the first time in over 20 years that a constructor-engine partnership has achieved such an unbroken run of success. In fact, only once in ......read more

With three races left of a 19-round 2013 Formula One season Infiniti Red Bull Racing have sealed the double, becoming consecutive four-time Constructors' World Champions and claiming the Drivers' World Championship crown at the hands of Sebastian Vettel, who becomes the youngest consecutive four-time winner in the sport's history. "To join people like Prost, Fangio and Michael ......read more

After the starting lights went off, it seemed that French Lotus driver Romain Grosjean or Australian Red Bull driver Mark Webber might end victorious from a tactical and strategy guided race in Japan on Sunday, but in the end it was Webber’s team mate namely German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel who took his ninth success of the season - and fifth in a row - after a clever timed ......read more

German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel took his sixth win of the season in the Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2013 at Monza on Sunday afternoon, beating emerging Spanish Suderia Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso who finished in a distant second, and his Australian Red Bull team mate Mark Webber, who occupied the last spot on the podium. After scoring his 40th pole position, the German ......read more

German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins his first Formula 1 race in Belgium in front of Spanish Scuderia Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso and third place winner and pole setter British Mercedes AMG driver Lewis Hamilton. German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel took the lead from P1 starter and British Mercedes AMG driver Lewis Hamilton on the opening lap of the 2013 Formula 1 ......read more

The Renault RS27 engine powered Sebastian Vettel (Infiniti Red Bull Racing) to his first win at the German Grand Prix. The reigning world champion took the win by one second over Kimi Raikkonen (Lotus F1 Team), with Romain Grosjean third, giving Renault power a clean sweep of the podium. It is the second podium lock out for Renault-powered drivers this season following the Bahrain Grand ......read more

German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel finally won his home Grand Prix with a precisely judged drive, although being under immense pressure from the two very fast and reliable Lotuses of Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean in Germany this Sunday afternoon. The German Red Bull driver snatched the lead at the start after out-dragging P1 starter and British Mercedes AMG driver Lewis ......read more

Nico Rosberg and Mercedes AMG proved the undeniable progress in preserving the tires by claiming a well-deserved victory in the 2013 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix at Silverstone this afternoon. In a race highlighted by several spectacular tire blow-outs, Nico Rosberg held off a tremendous late full throttle pursuit from Australian Red Bull driver Mark Webber to score his ......read more

The MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team acknowledges and accepts the Decision of the FIA International Tribunal published today. The Decision of the International Tribunal confirmed that the team acted in good faith regarding the Pirelli Tests, never intended to obtain any unfair sporting advantage and had no reason to believe that approval for the Pirelli Tests had not been given. ......read more

German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel strolled to victory, while Spanish Scuderia Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso finished in second place and British Mercedes AMG driver Lewis Hamilton crossed the finish line in third place. Although the crowd following the Candian Grand Prix was kept entertained in a fierce late-race fight for second place on Sunday afternoon, German Red Bull ......read more

The Renault RS27 V8 engine powered Infiniti Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel to a dominant win in yesterday’s Canadian Grand Prix. The reigning world champion won the 70 lap race by 14 seconds over Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, lapping every driver up to fifth position in the process. Starting from pole, Vettel scorched to his first-ever victory in Canada and extend his championship ......read more

German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel was finally able to win the Canadian F1 GP in Montreal, after he had been rather unlucky at the past Canadian races. Yesterday Vettel took his 29th career victory at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Canada, and the first at the circuit for Red Bull Racing. Vettel used a two-stop strategy to win the race and extend his championship ......read more