Reporting from the Ragged Edge
The Formula 1 community is in mourning following the passing of 25-year old Jules Bianchi on Friday night 17 July 2015. Bianchi had been hospitalised since suffering head trauma during the Japanese Grand Prix on 5 October 2014 and never regained consciousness after the crash.. In a sport that has made enormous developments in driver safety... Continue Reading →
Jules Bianchi, the young Frenchman who drives for F1 backmarkers Marussia, deserves a seat in a top team. More specifically, he deserves to drive for Ferrari. Bianchi has impressed all the way through the single seater formulae. But since making it to Formula 1 at the beginning of 2013, he has consistently demonstrated the skill... Continue Reading →
Max Chilton recorded his first ever Formula 1 retirement in Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix. It's probably the most important event that has occurred in his short F1 career thus far. Chilton has had a monkey on his back for some time now. That monkey has been his reliability. He finished every race of his debut... Continue Reading →
Spanish former Formula 1 test driver Maria de Villota has been found dead in a hotel room in Spain. She was 33 years old. De Villota was the daughter of former Formula 1 driver Emilio de Villota and was targeting a race seat in F1 when she suffered a massive accident in July 2012. At... Continue Reading →
This afternoon, Tom Dillmann took his first GP2 pole position in Hungary with a lap time of 1:28.219. That's about seven tenths of a second quicker than last year's GP2 pole time, although the comparison is not particularly significant.What is significant is how close Dillmann's pole position lap time came to the back of the... Continue Reading →
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