In an article on motorsport.com about Robert Kubica’s future options, published today Roberto Chinchero writes with an air of assuredness that ‘Williams needs to commercialise its second seat’. Kubica is expected to have access to a larger amount of funding than before, however, it’s seemingly not enough to match the apparent Read more…
Happy Birthday Lance Stroll! Lance Stroll wasn’t your typical teenager; son of multi-billionaire parents and driving racing cars across the world for a ‘living’, but he today marks the end of his teenage years. So I just thought I’d take a couple of minutes to wish him a very happy Read more…
The Mexican Grand Prix. “Again two cars home in good condition, which is a positive for the team.” – Paddy Lowe “The way we managed the final stint doing 58 laps on the prime tyres was absolutely mega.” – Sergey Sirotkin Not the tub-thumping, heart-rate increasing, passionate, William Wallace-like soundbites Read more…
It could be that Mexican ex-Formula 1 driver Esteban Gutierrez, attending the Mexican Grand Prix, says ‘there are chances’ for him to drive in Formula 1 next season, and everyone puts two and two together and he ends the weekend as the latest driver to be odds-on favourite for the Read more…
British energy drinks company Rich Energy has been looking for a way into Formula 1 for a while, even failing in an attempt to buy Force India following their slip into administration. Once out-manoeuvred by Lawrence Stroll in the deal that saw his consortium take over the Silverstone based team Read more…
It’s every Formula 1 driver’s dream to drive for Ferrari. And that dream could be a step closer for Williams’ Robert Kubica if rumours circulating the USGP paddock are to be believed. Current Ferrari development driver Daniil Kvyat is moving back to fill the seat at Toro Rosso vacated by Read more…
Nice Superted reference eh?? Even Spottyman couldn’t have zapped life into Williams’ pair of FW41s at this weekend’s USGP as both drivers failed to make it out of Q3, gained a couple of places thanks to grid penalties elsewhere, then lost them again on lap one where each Williams found Read more…
Williams Martini Racing’s reserve driver Robert Kubica finds himself on the team’s shortlist for a race seat for next year. Along with Esteban Ocon, current Williams driver Sergey Sirotkin and bookies’ outsider Artem Markelov, he is one of the four drivers currently being weighed up by the team with a Read more…
Autosport are reporting that Williams want to sign Esteban Ocon to partner George Russell in 2019. With the deciding factor likely to be budget, Williams are apparently in the process of trying to source the funding to enable them to seat Esteban Ocon in their second car, the Frenchman – Read more…
McLaren Renault have signed a sponsorship deal with Coca-Cola to have the drinks giant’s logo displayed on their car for the remainder of the 2018 Formula 1 season, (notably including this weekend’s US Grand Prix and Circuit of the Americas in Austin Texas) with the option to extend if it’s Read more…
