Robert Kubica appears to have passed his ultimate evaluation test with Williams with flying colors, but the team’s second seat is still up for grabs insists tech boss Paddy Lowe. Kubica fulfilled his testing duties with the Grove-based outfit in Abu Dhabi this week, performing well and with no physical worries as he shared the…
Toto Wolff is confident that Mercedes now has enough depth in terms of technical expertise to protect itself from staff turnover in the future. In the past, Formula 1 teams have struggled to maintain their form when senior staff have been poached by rivals. Mercedes itself lost executive technical director Paddy Lowe to McLaren before…
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff is expecting his team to start 2018 with a clean slate and leave behind any sense of fulfillment or complacency linked to its past achievements. The Silver Arrows outfit remained undefeated in 2017, for the fourth consecutive season, despite a robust challenge from Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel which lasted until latter…
On the eve of national elections in Israel, politically-embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that if he and his Likud Party were returned to power for another term he would make sure that an independent Palestinian state would not come into being. The comments come as a reversal of official Israeli government policy which, like…
Max Verstappen says that his thrilling but disallowed pass on Kimi Raikkonen during the final lap of the United States Grand Prix was an example of the problem all drivers had with overtaking in 2017. Verstappen managed to pass the Ferrari in Austin, but only by running off the track in the process. A subsequent…
Mercedes technical director James Allison believes there are many benefits to keeping taps on the opposition during testing, contradicting the perception that teams are focused only on their own work before the season gets underway. While everyone is devoted first and foremost to advancing their own developments, Allison insists nothing of what goes on up…
BOSTON—“Fifty Shades of Grey,” the book and the movie, is a celebration of the sadism that dominates nearly every aspect of American culture and lies at the core of pornography and global capitalism. It glorifies our dehumanization of women. It champions a world devoid of compassion, empathy and love. It eroticizes hypermasculine power that carries…
President Obama is desperate to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, marshalling most Republicans and some Democrats last month to narrowly push through a pact that was earlier defeated in the House. Pope Francis is eager to save the earth, “our common home” from unbridled economic activity that the TPP would sanction and bless….
A climate change pact reached by EU leaders last year followed several years of successful lobbying by oil giant Shell “to undermine European renewable energy targets,” the Guardian has reported. The agreement for 2030 goals, which include a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gases and 27 percent renewable energy in the EU as a whole,…
Lewis Hamilton admits his championship winning Mercedes W08 was a great car, but also a tough proposition when it came to exploiting its potential. Click Here: IQOS White Mercedes conquered its fourth consecutive world title in 2017, inflicting another crushing defeat on arch-rival Ferrari, but it was anything but clear sailing for the Silver Arrows…