Renault Sport boss Jerome Stoll says the French manufacturer underestimated the massive task that followed its buy-out of Lotus and return to F1 as a works outfit in 2016. Upon its decision to return to the Grand Prix battlefield, Renault developed a five-year plan destined to propel the team to the front of the grid….
Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were among the 100 political prisoners and youth activists granted pardon on Wednesday by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The group was among those targeted by the Egyptian government, which came to power in 2013 and soon thereafter enacted a sweeping anti-protest law. Recently passed “anti-terror” legislation…
Do androids dream of a three-day week? This week, Professor Stephen Hawking weighed in on the topic that’s obsessing technologists, economists and social scientists around the world: whether a dawning age of robotics is going to spell mass unemployment. “If machines produce everything we need,” Hawking wrote in an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit,…
President Obama might be the ultimate Game of Thrones fan. After all, the commander-in-chief has enough pull that he gets episodes in advance, and he probably has a greater appreciation than anyone of Westeros’s ever-shifting alliances and tangled power struggles. That said, even the superfan in the Oval Office has trouble recalling all the characters who have met their maker…
The all-female Kessel Racing crew, which is supported by the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission (WIMC), has secured one of the 60 coveted places on the 2019 entry list for the most famous endurance race in the world, the 24 Heures du Mans (15/16 June). Manuela Gostner, Rahel Frey and Michelle Gatting will line-up on…
TRACK INTERVIEWS(Conducted by Paul Di Resta) Q: Charles, it’s your first ever pole position in Formula One, your second grand prix with Ferrari, you’ve looked in control all weekend, and you’ve got the job done.Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I’m extremely happy. Obviously in the last race I was not very happy with my qualifying – I did…
2019 Round 2 Post Feature Race Press Conference Thoughts from Nicholas Latifi, Juan Manuel Correa and Jack Aitken FIA Formula 2: Welcome to the press conference for the top three finishers for the FIA Formula 2 sprint race here in Azerbaijan. We are joined by race winner Nicholas Latifi from DAMS, in second place, Juan…
WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY, 1500 HOURS LOCAL TIME Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)Max Verstappen (Red Bull)Daniel Ricciardo (Renault)Robert Kubica (Williams) THURSDAY, 23 MAY, 1300 HOURS LOCAL TIME Zak Brown (McLaren)Otmar Szafnauer (Racing Point)Christian Horner (Red Bull)Cyril Abiteboul (Renault)Claire Williams (Williams) SATURDAY, 25 MAY, POST-QUALIFYING Three fastest drivers from Qualifying SUNDAY, 26 MAY, POST-RACE First three finishing drivers …
DRIVERS1 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing) 2 – Charles LECLERC (Ferrari)3 – Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes) TRACK INTERVIEWS(Conducted by Martin Brundle) Q: Max Verstappen, what an astonishing race you drove. We see two cars down there from the great Niki Lauda – a Ferrari and a McLaren. A worthy champion of course, three times, a legend in this…
Lewis Hamilton took his seventh Hungarian Grand Prix victory at the Hungaroring, edging a nail-biting strategic battle with Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen that saw the Mercedes driver make up a 19-second gap to the Dutchman and claim the lead four laps from home after gambling on a second pit stop. Starting from pole, Verstappen…